STN-TGAT: Top-K Portfolio Construction via Prior-Guided Graph Attention with Learnable Soft-Threshold Sparsification

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Title:STN-TGAT: Top-K Portfolio Construction via Prior-Guided Graph Attention with Learnable Soft-Threshold Sparsification

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Abstract:This paper tackles the problem of stock ranking and portfolio construction under realistic investment settings by jointly modeling temporal dynamics and cross-sectional dependencies. We propose the Soft-Threshold NMI-prior Transformer Graph Attention Network (STN-TGAT), which integrates a temporal Transformer with a Graph Attention Network to capture long-horizon sequential patterns and dynamic inter-stock relationships. An NMI-based prior graph combined with a soft-threshold sparsification mechanism enhances structural robustness by mitigating noisy correlations while preserving informative connections. The portfolio formation process incorporates practical considerations, including Top-5 selection within the Top-50 $S\&P$ 500 constituents, explicit weight allocation, and transaction cost adjustment, thereby aligning the evaluation with real-world trading conditions. Empirical results on real-world data demonstrate that STN-TGAT consistently outperforms benchmark models from predictive accuracy and investment profitability measured by portfolio returns. These findings suggest that combining decision-aligned training with adaptive relational modeling provides a coherent and practically effective framework for data-driven portfolio construction.

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Machine Learning (cs.LG)

Cite as: arXiv:2607.19385 [cs.LG]

(or arXiv:2607.19385v1 [cs.LG] for this version)

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2607.19385

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From: Li Zhang [view email] [v1] Wed, 1 Jul 2026 13:05:33 UTC (1,214 KB)

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