MIT's Juan Antolin-Diaz to present Attention-Based Vector Autoregressions at AMLEDS
TaniaBabina · x · 2026-10-22
The AMLEDS webinar series announced that Juan Antolin-Diaz (MIT) will speak on "Attention-Based Vector Autoregressions" on October 23, exploring how the attention mechanism behind Transformers could transform economic forecasting.
The session will be moderated by Francesco Furno (Amazon), with organizers from the Federal Reserve Board, Stanford, the European Central Bank and other institutions. Attendance is free via Zoom.
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