arXiv Machine Learning

When Does Order Flow Matter? State-Dependent L2 Liquidity-State Transitions in Crypto Futures

arXiv:2607. 09230v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Building event-conditioned market models requires separating macro-event labels from persistent microstructure state.

arXiv AI
Sep 2

From Truncation to Commitment: Persistent Context in Uniform Discrete Diffusion

The paper introduces committed reveal sampling (CRS), a training‑free sampler for uniform discrete diffusion models that stores selected argmax tokens as persistent context for subsequent predictions. CRS keeps these tokens visible in later model inputs, which theoretically prevents Bayes error from increasing as noise decreases and encourages consistent sequence‑level choices. Empirical tests on Duo‑distilled data show that CRS without top‑p truncation achieves lower generative perplexity than fixed‑p baselines across various numbers of function evaluations, offering a more favorable perplexity–entropy trade‑off.

By Satoshi Hayakawa
arXiv AI
Sep 28

UQ-LOB: Uncertainty-Aware Limit Order Book Mid-Price Forecasting

UQ-LOB is a lightweight, encoder‑agnostic module that adds uncertainty quantification to any pretrained limit order book (LOB) encoder. It offers two variants: UQ‑regression, which outputs a calibrated Gaussian over future tick displacement, and UQ‑classification, which outputs a categorical distribution over down/up/stationary. On 5.2 billion LOB events across seven cryptocurrency assets, UQ‑regression achieves near‑nominal 68 % interval coverage, and selecting the top 10 % most confident predictions boosts directional macro F1 by 0.11–0.15 for regression and 0.05–0.11 for classification, reaching F1 scores of 0.88 (down) and 0.83 (up) at a 5‑second horizon.

By Derrick Gilchrist Edward Manoharan, Eljas Linna, Kestutis Baltakys, Hao Dong, Juho Kanniainen
arXiv AI
Sep 7

PRICE: A Systematic Study of LLM Adaptation Choices for Bitcoin Price Forecasting

The paper introduces PRICE, a systematic framework for adapting Large Language Models to short‑term Bitcoin price forecasting. PRICE combines parameter‑efficient fine‑tuning with LoRA, recursive multi‑step inference, integer‑rounded numerical representation, Context‑Task‑Format prompting, and exact zero‑temperature decoding, all built on a 4‑bit quantized LLaMA‑3 8B model. Ablation studies and comparative evaluations show that each component improves accuracy and reliability, enabling PRICE to achieve the lowest forecasting errors among eight transformer‑based and time‑series foundation models.

By Maryam Fakhari, Mehran Safayani