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AIBullisharXiv – CS AI · Jun 97/10
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Addressing Market Regime Changes and Heavy-Tailed Returns in Portfolio Optimization via Bayesian VAR and Elliptical Black-Litterman

Researchers introduce BAVAR-BLED, a novel deep reinforcement learning algorithm that addresses critical limitations in portfolio optimization by incorporating fat-tailed return distributions and market regime awareness. The method combines Bayesian Vector Autoregression, Black-Litterman modeling with elliptical distributions, and transformer networks to achieve superior risk-adjusted returns compared to existing approaches.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · May 97/10
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A Review of Large Language Models for Stock Price Forecasting from a Hedge-Fund Perspective

A comprehensive review examines how large language models are being applied to stock price forecasting in quantitative finance, with particular emphasis on practical challenges often overlooked in academic literature. The analysis, framed from a hedge-fund perspective, addresses critical implementation issues including sentiment analysis fragility, data leakage risks, and market friction constraints that affect real-world trading performance.

AIBullisharXiv – CS AI · Mar 37/104
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A Learnable Wavelet Transformer for Long-Short Equity Trading and Risk-Adjusted Return Optimization

Researchers developed WaveLSFormer, a wavelet-based Transformer model that directly generates market-neutral long/short trading portfolios from financial time series data. The AI system achieved a 60.7% cumulative return and 2.16 Sharpe ratio across six industry groups, significantly outperforming traditional ML models like LSTM and standard Transformers.

AI × CryptoBullisharXiv – CS AI · Jun 236/10
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AlphaMemo: Structured Search-Process Memory for Self-Evolving Alpha Mining Agents

AlphaMemo is a new LLM-based agent framework that improves automated financial factor discovery by using structured memory of past search patterns rather than naive trajectory replay. The system records reusable evidence about which code modifications succeed or fail in specific contexts, demonstrating better out-of-sample performance on major indices while reducing redundant exploration.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Jun 236/10
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Leakage-Aware Benchmarking of LLM Forecasting: Real-Time Nowcasts as the Decision-Time Input for Macro Factor Ranking

Researchers benchmark a retrieval-augmented LLM system for equity factor ranking using strictly decision-time information, avoiding data leakage common in forecasting benchmarks. The 7B model achieves modest positive results (median IC +0.154) comparable to simpler kNN baselines, suggesting real-time macro data and historical analogies drive most signal while LLMs may add marginal value in extreme rankings.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Jun 26/10
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Regime-Adaptive Continual Learning for Portfolio Management

Researchers propose ReCAP, a continual learning framework that enables portfolio management systems to adapt to non-stationary financial markets by detecting regime shifts and maintaining a library of adaptive trading policies. The approach combines regime detection with selective policy updates to improve returns while reducing computational overhead compared to traditional retraining methods.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Jun 16/10
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Enhancing Regime Shift Detection Using Unstructured Data: A Study on the Treasury Market

Researchers developed a hybrid framework combining large language models with statistical analysis to detect regime shifts in financial markets by analyzing Federal Reserve communications alongside Treasury market data. The approach achieved 82% accuracy in identifying monetary policy regime changes, outperforming traditional data-only methods and detecting shifts on the same day they occur.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · May 286/10
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AlphaForgeBench: Benchmarking End-to-End Trading Strategy Design with Large Language Models

Researchers introduce AlphaForgeBench, a new evaluation framework that addresses critical instability issues in Large Language Models deployed as trading agents. Rather than having LLMs generate discrete trading actions, the framework redefines their role as quantitative researchers producing alpha factors and strategies, enabling deterministic, reproducible evaluation aligned with real-world financial workflows.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · May 276/10
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High-Quality Synthetic Financial Time-Series using a GAN-Diffusion Framework

Researchers present CoMeTS-GAN, a hybrid generative framework combining GANs and diffusion models to create realistic synthetic financial time-series data that accurately reproduce stock market stylized facts and inter-asset correlations. The approach addresses data scarcity challenges for financial institutions while improving upon existing general-purpose generative architectures.

AIBullisharXiv – CS AI · Mar 27/1015
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Portfolio Reinforcement Learning with Scenario-Context Rollout

Researchers developed a new portfolio reinforcement learning method called macro-conditioned scenario-context rollout (SCR) that addresses market regime shifts and distribution changes. The approach generates plausible return scenarios under stress events and improves portfolio performance by up to 76% in Sharpe ratio and reduces maximum drawdown by 53%.

AIBullisharXiv – CS AI · Mar 27/1016
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TradeFM: A Generative Foundation Model for Trade-flow and Market Microstructure

Researchers introduced TradeFM, a 524M-parameter generative AI model that learns from billions of trade events across 9,000+ equities to understand market microstructure. The model can generate synthetic market data and generalizes across different markets without asset-specific calibration, potentially enabling new applications in trading and market simulation.

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