Miao Zhang
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2026
SAE-FiRE: Enhancing Earnings Surprise Predictions Through Sparse Autoencoder Feature Selection
Huopu Zhang | Yanguang Liu | Miao Zhang | Zirui He | Mengnan Du
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Huopu Zhang | Yanguang Liu | Miao Zhang | Zirui He | Mengnan Du
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Predicting earnings surprises through the analysis of earnings conference call transcripts has attracted increasing attention from the financial research community. Conference calls serve as critical communication channels between company executives, analysts, and shareholders, offering valuable forward-looking information. However, these transcripts present significant analytical challenges, typically containing over 5,000 words with substantial redundancy and industry-specific terminology that creates obstacles for language models. In this work, we propose the Sparse Autoencoder for Financial Representation Enhancement (SAE-FiRE) framework to address these limitations by extracting key information while eliminating redundancy. SAE-FiRE employs Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) to efficiently identify patterns and filter out noises, and focusing specifically on capturing nuanced financial signals that have predictive power for earnings surprises. Experimental results indicate that the proposed method can significantly outperform comparing baselines.