arXiv Machine Learning August 18, 2026 By Arishi Orra, Himanshu Choudhary, Manoj Thakur

Learning Stock Trading Policies via Barycenter-Based Adversarial Inverse Reinforcement Learning

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arXiv:2608. 15770v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Designing effective trading strategies using reinforcement learning remains challenging due to delayed and noisy rewards, poor exploration, and the difficulty of enforcing explicit risk constraints.

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