A Nonlinear Target-Factor Model with Attention Mechanism for Mixed-Frequency Data
面向混频数据的注意力非线性目标因子模型
We propose the Mixed-Panels-Transformer Encoder (MPTE), a framework for estimating factor models in panels with mixed frequencies and nonlinear signals. Classical factor models rely on linear signal extraction and homogeneous sampling frequencies, limiting their use when variables arrive at different frequencies. MPTE instead uses Transformer-style attention to construct context-aware signals, replacing fixed linear combinations with adaptive reweighting. We extend principal…