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: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
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: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
arXiv:2606. 06823v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While deep learning has excelled in various domains, its application to sequential decision-making in finance remains challenging due to the low Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) and non-stationarity of financial data.
By Yuqi Li, Siyuan Liu, Bingjun Liu
arXiv:2606. 04576v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Learning Value-at-Risk (VaR) and Expected Shortfall (ES) is important for managing financial risks effectively.
By Yichi Zhang, Ke Zhu, Zhoufan Zhu
arXiv:2606. 04574v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study aims to determine whether the application of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) as a specialized execution overlay can enhance pair trading in highly volatile cryptocurrency markets.
By Damian Lebied\'z, Robert \'Slepaczuk
arXiv:2608. 14106v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: When forecasting hourly returns for 1,000 US equities, we observe an unexpected phenomenon: predictions become nearly flat and show poor stock ranking, as measured by cross-sectional correlation.
By Shu Wan, Miles Ma, Hank Zhu, Guangqi Liu, Stephen Wang, Qingsong Wen, Huan Liu
arXiv:2607. 23068v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper introduces a compact reformulation of a modular end-to-end neural network for global minimum-variance portfolio optimization that decouples model complexity from both look-back window length and universe size.
By Christian Bongiorno, Efstratios Manolakis, Rosario Nunzio Mantegna
arXiv:2607. 09820v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Predict-then-optimize systems usually compress uncertainty into a point forecast and then solve a downstream optimization problem as if the forecast were reliable.
By Junjie Guo