arXiv Machine Learning

CLaC@FinMMEval 2026 Task 3: Sentiment-Augmented Deep Reinforcement Learning for Active Trading -- An Alpha-Reward Approach

arXiv:2607. 16028v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents our system for Task 3 of the CLEF 2026 FinMMEval Lab, which requires daily long, flat, or short trading decisions for Bitcoin (BTC) and Tesla (TSLA) using news and historical market data.

arXiv AI
Jun 9

GIFT: LLM-Guided State-Reward Interface for Financial Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2606. 08450v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Financial portfolio trading is naturally formulated as a reinforcement learning problem, where an agent sequentially rebalances assets under changing market conditions to balance return, risk, and transaction costs.

By Yanyan Wu, Boyi Zhang, Yanlin Liu, Xinyu Fang, Jining Luan, Meiqi Zhang, Jiacheng Liu, Hao Zeng, Dexu Yu, Chang Liu, Hanwen Du, Yongxin Ni, Youhua Li
arXiv AI
Jun 9

TT-DAC-PS: Twin-Target Deterministic Actor-Critic with Policy Smoothing for Optimal Trade Execution

arXiv:2606. 08379v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study addresses the optimal execution of large stock sell programs by introducing TT-DAC-PS (Twin-Target Deterministic Actor-Critic with Policy Smoothing), a deterministic actor-critic architecture that combines twin exponential-moving-average critic targets with pessimistic min backup, TD3-style target policy smoothing noise, delayed actor updates, and conservative Q regularisation to curb overestimation.

By Ilia Zaznov, Atta Badii, Julian Kunkel, Alfonso Dufour
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 6

Adaptive Finite-Budget Training for CVaR Risk-Aware Q-Learning

arXiv:2608. 04305v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Risk-aware Q-learning (RaQL) provides a model-free, two-timescale estimator for dynamic risk objectives, but its finite-budget behavior remains fragile: fixed inner-loop hyperparameters can produce unstable value estimates, persistent Bellman residuals, and inefficient sample reuse.

By Yifan Wu, Junjie Lei, Wenjie Huang
arXiv AI
1d ago

Q-Regularized Generative Auto-Bidding: From Suboptimal Trajectories to Optimal Policies

arXiv:2601. 02754v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: With the rapid development of e-commerce, auto-bidding has become a key asset in optimizing advertising performance under diverse advertiser environments.

By Mingming Zhang, Na Li, Zhuang Feiqing, Hongyang Zheng, Jiangbing Zhou, Wang Wuyin, Sheng-jie Sun, XiaoWei Chen, Junxiong Zhu, Lixin Zou, Chenliang Li
arXiv AI
Jun 10

A Unified Multi-Modal Framework for Intelligent Financial Systems: Integrating Reinforcement Learning, High-Frequency Trading, and Game-Theoretic Approaches with Cross-Modal Sentiment Analysis

arXiv:2606. 10412v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid evolution of financial technology demands sophisticated artificial intelligence systems capable of handling diverse challenges across multiple domains simultaneously.

By Fanrong Liu, Zhang Yuwei, Mingni Luo