arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 22

Understanding the Inner Workings of a State-Space Foundation Model for Limit Order Books

arXiv:2610. 28753v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autoregressive foundation models offer state-of-the-art capabilities to simulate the market by generating the message flow of limit order books (LOBs).

By Valentin Mohl, Alexandre Bismuth, Aramis Marti-Shahandeh, George Nigmatulin, Kang Li, Stefan Zohren, Jakob Foerster, Mihai Cucuringu, Anisoara Calinescu
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 12

Market Impact Estimation via Causal Foundation Models

The paper introduces a Causal Market Simulator using a continuous‑time causal prior‑data fitted network (PFN) to estimate market impact, addressing bias from informational flow that traditional models overlook. On a synthetic market prior with adjustable confounding, the PFN matches an unbiased oracle while a naive estimator overestimates by up to 68%. In zero‑shot tests on real limit‑order books and equity data, the model’s intervention responses align with ground‑truth scales and improve correlation with measured impact when a recurrent state‑space variant is used.

By Dennis Thumm, Ying Chen
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 14

FlowLOB: Efficient and Controllable Limit Order Book Generation with Flow Matching

arXiv:2608. 13096v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Limit order book (LOB) simulators are most useful to practitioners when they combine realistic market dynamics, computationally efficient sampling, controllable scenario generation, and the ability to generalize beyond the instruments seen during training---properties that existing agent-based and deep generative simulators provide only partially.

By Zhuohan Wang, Andreea Bacalum, Ollie Olby, Carmine Ventre, Namid Stillman