arXiv Machine Learning

LOB-Impact Benchmark: Emergent Market Impact in Generative Limit Order Book Models

arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 22

Understanding the Inner Workings of a State-Space Foundation Model for Limit Order Books

arXiv:2610. 28753v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autoregressive foundation models offer state-of-the-art capabilities to simulate the market by generating the message flow of limit order books (LOBs).

By Valentin Mohl, Alexandre Bismuth, Aramis Marti-Shahandeh, George Nigmatulin, Kang Li, Stefan Zohren, Jakob Foerster, Mihai Cucuringu, Anisoara Calinescu
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 12

Market Impact Estimation via Causal Foundation Models

The paper introduces a Causal Market Simulator using a continuous‑time causal prior‑data fitted network (PFN) to estimate market impact, addressing bias from informational flow that traditional models overlook. On a synthetic market prior with adjustable confounding, the PFN matches an unbiased oracle while a naive estimator overestimates by up to 68%. In zero‑shot tests on real limit‑order books and equity data, the model’s intervention responses align with ground‑truth scales and improve correlation with measured impact when a recurrent state‑space variant is used.

By Dennis Thumm, Ying Chen
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 14

FlowLOB: Efficient and Controllable Limit Order Book Generation with Flow Matching

arXiv:2608. 13096v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Limit order book (LOB) simulators are most useful to practitioners when they combine realistic market dynamics, computationally efficient sampling, controllable scenario generation, and the ability to generalize beyond the instruments seen during training---properties that existing agent-based and deep generative simulators provide only partially.

By Zhuohan Wang, Andreea Bacalum, Ollie Olby, Carmine Ventre, Namid Stillman
arXiv AI
Sep 16

Repurposing Deep Limit Order Book Forecasting for Scenario-Conditioned Market Impact Modeling

The paper demonstrates that deep limit order book forecasting models can be repurposed to quantify scenario-conditioned market impact without retraining. By injecting counterfactual order‑book messages into a trained Transformer forecaster, the authors compare predictive distributions before and after the injection, defining a short‑horizon model‑implied market impact. The approach achieves a Spearman correlation of 0.99 and 97.2% directional agreement with historical outcomes for non‑neutral scenarios, and captures incremental sequence‑dependent variation beyond scenario identity and pre‑event forecasts.

By Eljas Linna, Kestutis Baltakys, Derrick Manoharan, Alexandros Iosifidis, Juho Kanniainen
arXiv AI
Jun 24

When AI Meets Finance (StockAgent): Large Language Model-based Stock Trading in Simulated Real-world Environments

arXiv:2407. 18957v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Can AI Agents simulate real-world trading environments to investigate the impact of external factors on stock trading activities (e.

By Chong Zhang, Xinyi Liu, Zhongmou Zhang, Mingyu Jin, Lingyao Li, Zhenting Wang, Wenyue Hua, Dong Shu, Suiyuan Zhu, Xiaobo Jin, Sujian Li, Mengnan Du, Yongfeng Zhang