Responding to News Sensitively in Stock Attention Networks via Prompt-Adaptive Trimodal Model

Modern quantitative finance and portfolio-based investment hinge on multimedia news and historical price trends for stock movement prediction. However, prior studies overlook the long tail effect in the feature distribution of stocks, inevitably leading to biased attention and thus degrading the efficiency of utilizing news. To this end, we propose a prompt-adaptive trimodal model (PA-TMM) to overcome the biased stock attention networks and tail feature scarcity problem. In this model, sentiments automatically extracted from trimodal information serve as prompts reflecting the market’s collective mood for other entities, and the interactions among stocks are dynamically inferred for integrating both news- and price-induced movements. By leveraging the movement prompt adaptation (MPA) strategy, our model proactively adapts to the feature-imbalanced phenomenon and converges toward being responsive to the news sensitively. Extensive experiments conducted on real-world datasets consistently demonstrate not only the superiority of the proposed framework over various state-of-the-art baselines, but also its effectiveness, profitability, and robustness in Fintech. The code is accessible at https://github.com/lauht/PA-TMM.