arXiv:2508. 13174v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Formula alpha mining, which generates predictive signals from financial data, is critical for quantitative investment.
By Hongjun Ding, Binqi Chen, Jinsheng Huang, Taian Guo, Zhengyang Mao, Guoyi Shao, Lutong Zou, Luchen Liu, Ming Zhang
arXiv:2608. 27076v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Algorithmic trading now represents a market exceeding $20 billion, where even marginal gains in signal robustness can translate into economically significant returns.
By Joshua Le Grice
arXiv:2605.28853v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Portfolio optimization in real-world financial markets is notoriously difficult due to non-stationarity, noisy data, and high transaction cos...
By Rahul Fernandes, Travis Desell
The paper explores tabular deep learning for equity signal generation, training five model classes on daily data from about 300 large‑cap US stocks over eleven years. By using Bayesian optimisation that targets trading performance across three distinct market regimes, the authors achieve regime‑robust hyperparameter selection, yielding out‑of‑sample signal precision above random and a Hybrid ensemble (XGBoost + TabNet) with an annualised return of 51.26% and a Sharpe ratio of 2.44. The study also finds that alternative data adds limited value beyond technical and fundamental features, and that the ensemble’s outperformance is driven by stock selection rather than market exposure.
arXiv:2605. 27887v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have shown strong performance across diverse financial tasks, yet portfolio management (PM), a critical financial decision-making task, remains poorly benchmarked.
By Yuxuan Zhao, Sijia Chen, Ningxin Su
VertiFuseX is a hybrid LSTM architecture that fuses multi‑scale temporal representations at the penultimate layer, stacking features from LSTM, Bi‑LSTM, and St‑LSTM branches and a parallel DNN stream. On 15 years of global equity index data, it reduces MAPE by 30‑54% and improves MAE and RMSE by over 40% compared to LSTM baselines, outperforming seven state‑of‑the‑art models across 33 metric‑dataset comparisons. The model is lightweight (675k parameters, 2.6 MB footprint) with 1.5 ms/sample inference latency and demonstrates robust, interpretable forecasting with reduced drawdowns in algorithmic trading simulations.
By Aashish Bohra, Vivek Vijay
arXiv:2108. 02283v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Classification outperforms regression across matched machine learning models in portfolio construction.
By Yang Bai, Kuntara Pukthuanthong
arXiv:2607. 19385v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper tackles the problem of stock ranking and portfolio construction under realistic investment settings by jointly modeling temporal dynamics and cross-sectional dependencies.
By Haoran Guo, Yutong Lu, Li Zhang
arXiv:2609.08106v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: MASTER's inter-stock multi-head attention -- the module responsible for modeling cross-sectional stock relationships -- accounts for 42.5% of model par...
By Kunhan Guo
GoAnt is a quality‑diversity multi‑agent search framework designed for discovering alpha factors in market microstructure data. It employs non‑communicating Explorer, Exploiter, and Connector workers that share an adaptive Mental Map and a Queen dispatcher to allocate evaluation budgets efficiently. On real A‑share data from 2023‑2026, GoAnt achieves significantly higher quality‑weighted yields than baseline methods and maintains strong out‑of‑sample performance.
By Stella Zhao, Tommy Sha
arXiv:2606. 29194v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated alpha mining holds the scoring function fixed and varies the search algorithm over it.
By Yuqi Li, Siyuan Liu, Bingjun Liu
arXiv:2607. 16194v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In modern financial markets, decision-makers increasingly rely on quantitative methods to navigate complex trade-offs among multiple, often conflicting objectives.
By Zhiyuan Wang, Qinxu Ding, Ding Ding, Siying Zhu, Jing Ren, Yue Wang, Chong Hui Tan