Cross-Modal Temporal Fusion for Financial Market Forecasting
This work addresses the challenge of effective cross-modal data fusion for financial market forecasting, offering a scalable solution for practitioners, though it appears incremental in its approach.
The paper tackled the problem of integrating diverse financial data sources for market forecasting by introducing the Cross-Modal Temporal Fusion (CMTF) framework, which achieved superior performance in price direction classification on FTSE 100 stock data compared to existing baselines.
Accurate forecasting in financial markets requires integrating diverse data sources, from historical prices to macroeconomic indicators and financial news. However, existing models often fail to align these modalities effectively, limiting their practical use. In this paper, we introduce a transformer-based deep learning framework, Cross-Modal Temporal Fusion (CMTF), that fuses structured and unstructured financial data for improved market prediction. The model incorporates a tensor interpretation module for feature selection and an auto-training pipeline for efficient hyperparameter tuning. Experimental results using FTSE 100 stock data demonstrate that CMTF achieves superior performance in price direction classification compared to classical and deep learning baselines. These findings suggest that our framework is an effective and scalable solution for real-world cross-modal financial forecasting tasks.