Research brief 019

About 80 times fewer parameters. Can structure improve stock ranking?

A dependence graph constrains which company characteristics interact inside a neural model.

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Lin and colleagues let relationships among company characteristics shape the network. Constraining the interactions could be valuable when financial signals are weak and unrestricted models have many ways to fit noise.

The full analysis examines the study and the practical question behind it: A dependence graph constrains which company characteristics interact inside a neural model.

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