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Posted in q-fin.RM · 2026-01-12 · Benjamin Avanzi, Ronald Richman, Bernard Wong, Mario Wüthrich, Yagebu Xie

Reinforcement Learning for Micro-Level Claims Reserving

Outstanding claim liabilities are revised repeatedly as claims develop, yet most modern reserving models are trained as one-shot predictors and typically learn only from settled claims. We formulate individual claims reserving as a claim-level Markov decision process in which an agent sequentially updates outstanding claim liability...

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Posted in q-fin.CP · 2026-01-12 · Javier Mancilla, Theodoros D. Bouloumis, Frederic Goguikian

Non-Convex Portfolio Optimization via Energy-Based Models: A Comparative Analysis Using the Thermodynamic HypergRaphical Model Library (THRML) for Index Tracking

Portfolio optimization under cardinality constraints transforms the classical Markowitz mean-variance problem from a convex quadratic problem into an NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem. This paper introduces a novel approach using THRML (Thermodynamic HypergRaphical Model Library), a JAX-based library for building and sampling...

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Posted in q-fin.PM · 2026-01-12 · Brandon Luo, Jim Skufca

Enhancing Portfolio Optimization with Deep Learning Insights

Our work focuses on deep learning (DL) portfolio optimization, tackling challenges in long-only, multi-asset strategies across market cycles. We propose training models with limited regime data using pre-training techniques and leveraging transformer architectures for state variable inclusion. Evaluating our approach against...

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Posted in q-fin.PM · 2026-01-12 · Kyle Sung, Traian A. Pirvu

Optimal Option Portfolios for Skew-Elliptical t Returns

This paper explores option portfolio optimization when the underlying returns are skew-elliptical t-distributed. We use the variance and value at risk (VaR) to measure portfolio risk. The novelty of our work is the departure from the traditional normal returns setting, allowing investors to capture both heavy-tailed and skewed market...

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Posted in q-fin.MF · 2026-01-10 · Khizar Qureshi, H. Oliver Gao

Emissions-Robust Portfolios

We study portfolio choice when firm-level emissions intensities are measured with error. We introduce a scope-specific penalty operator that rescales asset payoffs as a smooth function of revenue-normalized emissions intensity. Under payoff homogeneity, unit-scale invariance, mixture linearity, and a curvature semigroup axiom, the...

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Posted in q-fin.ST · 2026-01-10 · Jin Du, Alexander Walter, Maxim Ulrich

Cross-Market Alpha: Testing Short-Term Trading Factors in the U.S. Market via Double-Selection LASSO

While traditional equity factor investing relies heavily on slow-moving fundamental accounting metrics, these models frequently suffer from factor crowding and miss real-time, sentiment-driven market dislocations. This study explores how institutional investors can leverage a high-dimensional library of 191 short-term, trading-based...

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Posted in q-fin.RM · 2026-01-10 · Sandeep Neela

An Explainable Market Integrity Monitoring System with Multi-Source Attention Signals and Transparent Scoring

Market integrity monitoring is difficult because suspicious price/volume behavior can arise from many benign mechanisms, while modern detection systems often rely on opaque models that are hard to audit and communicate. We present AIMM-X, an explainable monitoring pipeline that combines market microstructure-style signals derived from...

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Posted in q-fin.RM · 2026-01-09 · Ekleen Kaur

The Limits of Lognormal: Assessing Cryptocurrency Volatility and VaR using Geometric Brownian Motion

The integration of cryptocurrencies into institutional portfolios necessitates the adoption of robust risk modeling frameworks. This study is a part of a series of subsequent works to fine-tune model risk analysis for cryptocurrencies. Through this first research work, we establish a foundational benchmark by applying the traditional...

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Posted in q-fin.CP · 2026-01-09 · Sungwoo Kang

When the Rules Change: Adaptive Signal Extraction via Kalman Filtering and Markov-Switching Regimes

Most empirical microstructure research assumes that order flow--return parameters are constant, yet these relationships shift substantially across market regimes. Combining adaptive Kalman filtering, Markov-switching regime identification, and asymmetric response estimation, we characterize regime-dependent investor behavior in the...

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Posted in q-fin.GN · 2026-01-09 · Zhi Yang, Lingfeng Zeng, Fangqi Lou, Qi Qi, Wei Zhang, Zhenyu Wu, Zhenxiong Yu, Jun Han, Zhiheng Jin, Lejie Zhang, Xiaoming Huang, Xiaolong Liang, Zheng Wei, Junbo Zou, Dongpo Cheng, Zhaowei Liu, Xin Guo, Rongjunchen Zhang, Liwen Zhang

UniFinEval: Towards Unified Evaluation of Financial Multimodal Models across Text, Images and Videos

Multimodal large language models are playing an increasingly significant role in empowering the financial domain, however, the challenges they face, such as multimodal and high-density information and cross-modal multi-hop reasoning, go beyond the evaluation scope of existing multimodal benchmarks. To address this gap, we propose...

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Posted in q-fin.PM · 2026-01-09 · Roberto Garrone

Geopolitical and Institutional Constraints on Adaptive Market Efficiency -- A Feasibility Diagnostic for Robust Portfolio Construction

This paper develops a structural framework for characterizing the informational feasibility of financial markets under heterogeneous institutional and geopolitical conditions. Departing from the assumption of uniform and time-invariant market efficiency, adaptive efficiency is conceptualized as a localized and state-dependent property...

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Posted in q-fin.TR · 2026-01-09 · Kieran Wood, Stephen J. Roberts, Stefan Zohren

DeePM: Regime-Robust Deep Learning for Systematic Macro Portfolio Management

We propose DeePM (Deep Portfolio Manager), a structured deep-learning macro portfolio manager trained end-to-end to maximize a robust, risk-adjusted utility. DeePM addresses three fundamental challenges in financial learning: (1) it resolves the asynchronous "ragged filtration" problem via a Directed Delay (Causal Sieve) mechanism...

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Posted in q-fin.MF · 2026-01-08 · Jinjun Liu, Ming-Yen Cheng

Distributionally Robust Recovery of Omitted Factors from Forecast Residuals with Application to Interest Rate Risk Management

A forecasting model compresses its predictors into an estimate of a conditional mean, and the systematic structure that estimate omits survives in the second moment of its forecast errors. Accuracy comparisons do not measure this structure, and variance-based extraction does not recover the part of it that a given decision bears. In...

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Posted in q-fin.CP · 2026-01-08 · Jack Fanshawe, Rumi Masih, Alexander Cameron

Forecasting Equity Correlations with Hybrid Transformer Graph Neural Network

This paper studies forward-looking stock-stock correlation forecasting for S\&P 500 constituents and evaluates whether learned correlation forecasts can improve graph-based clustering used in basket trading strategies. We cast 10-day ahead correlation prediction in Fisher-z space and train a Temporal-Heterogeneous Graph Neural Network...

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Posted in q-fin.ST · 2026-01-08 · Sungwoo Kang

The Physics of Price Discovery: Deconvolving Information, Volatility, and the Critical Breakdown of Signal during Retail Herding

How information transmits through prices -- and why this transmission breaks down -- remains poorly understood. We combine regularized deconvolution with Hawkes process analysis to study the impulse response structure of investor flows in the Korean equity market (January 2020 -- February 2025). Three findings emerge: foreign and...

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Posted in q-fin.ST · 2026-01-08 · Daniil Bargman, Francesca Medda, Akash Sedai Sharma

Latent Variable Phillips Curve

This paper re-examines the empirical Phillips curve (PC) model and its usefulness in the context of medium-term inflation forecasting. A latent variable Phillips curve hypothesis is formulated and tested using 3,968 randomly generated factor combinations. Evidence from US core PCE inflation between Q1 1983 and Q1 2025 suggests that...

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Posted in q-fin.MF · 2026-01-08 · Jean-Gabriel Attali

Analytic Regularity and Approximation Limits of Coefficient-Constrained Shallow Networks

We study approximation limits of single-hidden-layer neural networks with analytic activation functions under global coefficient constraints. Under uniform $\ell^1$ bounds, or more generally sub-exponential growth of the coefficients, we show that such networks generate model classes with strong quantitative regularity, leading to...

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Posted in q-fin.MF · 2026-01-08 · Jean-Gabriel Attali

Visible absorbing decompositions and uniqueness of invariant probabilities

We identify the measurable absorbing obstruction to uniqueness of invariant probability measures for a Markov kernel. Ordinary absorbing decompositions obstruct global irreducibility and recurrence, but not necessarily uniqueness: an absorbing component may have full mass for no invariant probability. We prove that a Markov kernel...

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Posted in q-fin.CP · 2026-01-08 · Khabbab Zakaria, Jayapaulraj Jerinsh, Andreas Maier, Patrick Krauss, Stefano Pasquali, Dhagash Mehta

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Optimum Order Execution: Mitigating Risk and Maximizing Returns

Optimal Order Execution is a well-established problem in finance that pertains to the flawless execution of a trade (buy or sell) for a given volume within a specified time frame. This problem revolves around optimizing returns while minimizing risk, yet recent research predominantly focuses on addressing one aspect of this challenge....

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Posted in q-fin.ST · 2026-01-08 · Salam Rabindrajit Luwang, Kundan Mukhia, Buddha Nath Sharma, Md. Nurujjaman, Anish Rai, Filippo Petroni

Intraday Limit Order Price Change Transition Dynamics Across Market Capitalizations Through Markov Analysis

Quantitative understanding of stochastic dynamics in limit order price changes is essential for execution strategy design. We analyze intraday transition dynamics of ask and bid orders across market capitalization tiers using high-frequency NASDAQ100 tick data. Employing a discrete-time Markov chain framework, we categorize...

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Posted in q-fin.TR · 2026-01-08 · Emma Hubert, Dimitrios Lolas, Ronnie Sircar

Trading Electrons: Predicting DART Spread Spikes in ISO Electricity Markets

We study the problem of forecasting and optimally trading day-ahead versus real-time (DART) price spreads in U.S. wholesale electricity markets. Building on the framework of Galarneau-Vincent et al., we extend spike prediction from a single zone to a multi-zone setting and treat both positive and negative DART spikes within a unified...

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Posted in q-fin.MF · 2026-01-07 · Bastien Baude, Damien Challet, Ioane Muni Toke

Optimal execution on Uniswap v2/v3 under transient price impact

We study the optimal liquidation of a large position on Uniswap v2 and Uniswap v3 in discrete time. The instantaneous price impact is derived from the AMM pricing rule. Transient impact is modeled to capture either exponential or approximately power-law decay, together with a permanent component. In the Uniswap v2 setting, we obtain...

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Posted in q-fin.GN · 2026-01-07 · Gabin Taibi, Joerg Osterrieder

An Algorithmic Framework for Systematic Literature Reviews: A Case Study for Financial Narratives

This paper introduces an algorithmic framework for conducting systematic literature reviews (SLRs), designed to improve efficiency, reproducibility, and selection quality assessment in the literature review process. The proposed method integrates Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques, clustering algorithms, and interpretability...

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Posted in q-fin.PM · 2026-01-07 · Anubha Goel, Amita Sharma, Juho Kanniainen

Class of topological portfolios: Are they better than classical portfolios?

Topological Data Analysis (TDA), an emerging field in investment sciences, harnesses mathematical methods to extract data features based on shape, offering a promising alternative to classical portfolio selection methodologies. We utilize persistence landscapes, a type of summary statistics for persistent homology, to capture the...

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