arXiv:2608. 19389v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated market makers (AMMs) are a cornerstone of decentralised finance (DeFi).
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SAiFE-gym is a Python module that offers simulation environments for studying trading in Constant Product Markets with Concentrated Liquidity. It decomposes the microstructure of these markets into interactive components, allowing researchers to model various economic settings. The environments are vectorized for scalability in high‑dimensional reinforcement learning workflows, and the paper demonstrates their usefulness by evaluating RL agents under uncertain market parameters.
arXiv:2607. 06121v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this paper, we investigate whether a model-free RL agent can identify and exploit price manipulation opportunities more effectively than a traditional model-based approach that assumes correct specification of the data-generating process but relies on noisy parameter estimates.
The paper investigates whether a proximal policy optimisation (PPO) agent can learn to act as a broker in a continuous‑time broker‑trader game that has an analytically solved optimal strategy. By discretising the continuous‑time reward and validating the implementation, the authors show that a PPO agent with a feed‑forward neural network can approximate the reference action when there is no uninformed order flow, but struggles under stochastic uninformed flow, with critics failing to rank actions reliably. The study further demonstrates that a causal certainty‑equivalent controller based on observable history outperforms PPO under partial information, and that freezing the analytical policy and fine‑tuning PPO after a change in execution cost yields a measurable improvement. whyItMatters:"The analytical solution serves both as a diagnostic benchmark for RL performance and as a practical starting policy that can be adapted to changing market conditions, illustrating how theoretical finance models can guide and improve reinforcement learning in complex financial control tasks."
arXiv:2607. 02864v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning (RL) has emerged as a powerful approach in financial trading, enabling agents to learn optimal strategies through direct market interaction.
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.
The paper proposes an adversarial reinforcement‑learning framework for market making that incorporates Hawkes‑process driven order arrivals and trade‑induced price impact, addressing limitations of prior Poisson‑based models. An LSTM module captures temporal dependencies in recent observations to handle increased non‑stationarity, and the authors analyze equilibrium properties and introduce a robustness evaluation protocol focused on the left tail of returns. Experiments across diverse market regimes demonstrate that the method improves left‑tail performance, especially under strong Hawkes excitation and moderate price impact, without relying on a terminal inventory bias.