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48 results for reference strategy

Optimal order execution strategies for brokers under reference benchmarks.

problem Maximizing broker's utility of excess profit-and-loss subject to reference strategies.
method Formulated as a utility maximization problem, optimal strategies derived in closed form.
result General reference strategies can be approximated by piece-wise linear combinations of IS and TC orders.

New methods improve LLM preference optimization by intelligently weighting multiple reference models.

problem Improving LLM preference optimization with multiple reference models.
method Introducing four new weighting strategies for multiple-reference preference optimization.
result All four new weighting strategies outperform current methods on preference accuracy.

Model shows how heterogeneity in strategies and risk tolerance affects financial market stability.

problem Understanding how heterogeneity impacts financial market dynamics.
method Agent-based model incorporating heterogeneous investment strategies and risk tolerance.
result Heterogeneity in strategies and risk tolerance suppresses price fluctuations.

Modeling consumption and investment decisions with reference point and drawdown constraints.

problem Modeling consumption and investment decisions with reference point and drawdown constraints.
method Solving a stochastic control problem to derive value function, optimal consumption plan, and investment strategy in semi-explicit forms.
result Five important thresholds of wealth, all as functions of hh, and significant economic implications.

The paper optimizes insurer's decisions on dividends, reinsurance, and capital injection under model uncertainty.

problem Maximizing insurer's expected discounted dividends while managing model uncertainty and risk.
method Modeling reserve levels as diffusion processes, solving for optimal strategies in closed form.
result Optimal strategies include barrier dividend and capital injection policies.

The aim of this work is to create systematic trading strategies built upon several financial crisis indicators based on the spectral properties of market dynamics. Within the limitations of our framework and data, we will demonstrate that our systematic trading strategies are able to make money, not as a result of pure…

2017-09-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Accelerates optimal transport computation by 10x with spectral insights.

problem Exponential slow-down of convergence in Entropic Optimal Transport as regularization weakens.
method Spectral insights and spectral warm-start strategy to mitigate convergence issues.
result Faster convergence compared to the reference method Sinkhorn algorithm.

The paper analyzes optimal consumption with past spending maximum as a reference.

problem Optimal consumption with past spending maximum as a reference.
method Path-dependent exponential utility, Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation, dual transform, smooth-fit principle.
result Closed-form solutions for optimal investment and consumption strategies in each region.

Paper explains DRL strategies for portfolio management using linear models.

problem Difficulty in understanding DRL-based trading strategies.
method Empirical approach using linear models and integrated gradients.
result DRL agents show stronger multi-step prediction power than machine learning methods.

Novel pairs trading strategy for cointegrated cryptocurrencies using copulas.

problem Identifying profitable trading opportunities in cointegrated cryptocurrency pairs.
method Linear and non-linear cointegration tests, correlation coefficient, copula families, back-testing.
result The strategy outperforms buy-and-hold trading strategies in profitability and risk-adjusted returns.

Many immunization strategies have been proposed to prevent infectious viruses from spreading through a network. In this study, we propose efficient immunization strategies to prevent a default contagion that might occur in a financial network. An essential difference from the previous studies on immunization strategy i…

2013-08-03abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper optimizes portfolio selection by penalizing tracking error, improving Sharpe ratio.

problem Optimizing portfolio allocation with a penalty for deviation from a reference portfolio.
method Formulated as a McKean-Vlasov control problem, provides explicit solutions and asymptotic expansions.
result The penalized portfolio strategy outperforms standard mean-variance and reference portfolios in most cases.

Backtests of structured strategies lose much of their predictive power in live trading.

problem Uncertainty in how marketed backtests predict live performance of structured strategies.
method Analysis of 1,726 structured strategies from ten global institutions.
result Raw backtests have limited portability into live trading and deteriorate sharply.

We present a generalization of the Simultaneous Long-Short (SLS) trading strategy described in recent control literature wherein we allow for different parameters across the short and long sides of the controller; we refer to this new strategy as Generalized SLS (GSLS). Furthermore, we investigate the conditions under …

2018-06-14abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper analyzes how conformal prediction works with contaminated reference data.

problem The impact of contamination on the validity and power of conformal prediction methods.
method The paper analyzes the impact of contamination on the validity of conformal methods and proposes a data-cleaning framework to enhance power.
result The proposed data-cleaning framework can effectively enhance power while maintaining type-I error control.

We consider the problem of hedging a European contingent claim in a Bachelier model with transient price impact as proposed by Almgren and Chriss. Following the approach of Rogers and Singh and Naujokat and Westray, the hedging problem can be regarded as a cost optimal tracking problem of the frictionless hedging strat…

2015-10-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Study replicates reference-dependent preferences impact on risk-return trade-off in Chinese stock market.

problem Impact of reference-dependent preferences on risk-return trade-off in Chinese stock market.
method Utilized CGO proxy, econometric techniques (Dependent Double Sorting, Fama-MacBeth regressions), and data from 1995-2024.
result Reference-dependent preferences have a weaker or absent positive risk-return relationship in the Chinese market.

Study optimizes identifying the best arm with fixed rounds and Gaussian outcomes.

problem Designing efficient experiments to identify the best arm with fixed rounds and Gaussian outcomes.
method Developed worst-case lower bounds and the GNA-EBA strategy for optimal identification.
result GNA-EBA strategy is asymptotically worst-case optimal.

A risk-averse agent hedges her exposure to a non-tradable risk factor UU using a correlated traded asset SS and accounts for the impact of her trades on both factors. The effect of the agent's trades on UU is referred to as cross-impact. By solving the agent's stochastic control problem, we obtain a closed-form expr…

2019-07-31abs ↗pdf ↗

We study Atlas-type models of equity markets with local characteristics that depend on both name and rank, and in ways that induce a stable capital distribution. Ergodic properties and rankings of processes are examined with reference to the theory of reflected Brownian motions in polyhedral domains. In the context of …

2009-09-01abs ↗pdf ↗

Deep neural networks identify robust arbitrage strategies in financial markets.

problem Identifying profitable trading strategies under model ambiguity.
method Data-driven deep neural networks considering high-dimensional financial markets.
result Empirical investigations show profitable trading performances in various market conditions.

Embedded ensembles improve neural network performance efficiently.

problem Improving neural network performance with fewer resources.
method Analyzing the wide network limit of gradient descent dynamics using Neural-Tangent-Kernel.
result Embedded ensembles exhibit two regimes: independent and collective, affecting performance.

We study the pricing and hedging of derivative securities with uncertainty about the volatility of the underlying asset. Rather than taking all models from a prespecified class equally seriously, we penalise less plausible ones based on their "distance" to a reference local volatility model. In the limit for small unce…

2016-05-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Classification is one of the widely used analytical techniques in data science domain across different business to associate a pattern which contribute to the occurrence of certain event which is predicted with some likelihood. This Paper address a lacuna of creating some time window before the prediction actually happ…

2018-05-25abs ↗pdf ↗

BS-NAS broadens and shrinks search space for optimal neural architectures.

problem Suboptimal channel numbers and model averaging effects in One-Shot NAS methods.
method Broadening with spring block for channel search, shrinking with underperforming operations removal, evolutionary algorithm for optimal architecture search.
result BS-NAS achieves state-of-the-art performance on ImageNet.

Decentralized learning achieves centralized performance via Gibbs measures.

problem Achieving centralized performance in decentralized machine learning.
method ERM-RER learning framework with Gibbs measures and relative-entropy regularization.
result Achieving centralized performance with Gibbs measures and specific scaling of regularization factors.

We introduce a dynamic credit portfolio framework where optimal investment strategies are robust against misspecifications of the reference credit model. The risk-averse investor models his fear of credit risk misspecification by considering a set of plausible alternatives whose expected log likelihood ratios are penal…

2016-03-27abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider the problem of selecting a seed set to maximize the expected number of influenced nodes in the social network, referred to as the \textit{influence maximization} (IM) problem. We assume that the topology of the social network is prescribed while the influence probabilities among edges are unknown. In order …

2019-11-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Develops a strategy to minimize loss in both stochastic and adversarial environments for linear contextual bandits.

problem Linear contextual bandits with adversarial corruption.
method Proposes a novel strategy called Best-of-Both-Worlds (BoBW) RealFTRL, extending RealLinExp3 and FTRL.
result Regret upper bound of $O\left(\min\left\{\frac{(\log(T))^3}{Δ_{*}} + \sqrt{\frac{C(\log(T))^3}{Δ_{*}}},\ \ \sqrt{T}(\log(T))^2 ight\} ight)$, showing effectiveness in both stochastic and adversarial environments.

It has been shown recently that graph signals with small total variation can be accurately recovered from only few samples if the sampling set satisfies a certain condition, referred to as the network nullspace property. Based on this recovery condition, we propose a sampling strategy for smooth graph signals based on …

2017-04-16abs ↗pdf ↗

New strategy optimally identifies best arm in unknown variance Gaussian bandits.

problem Identifying the best arm in two-armed Gaussian bandits with unknown variances.
method Proposes a Neyman Allocation (NA)-Augmented Inverse Probability weighting (AIPW) strategy to estimate variances and draw arms adaptively.
result Demonstrates asymptotic optimality of the proposed strategy in the small-gap regime.

Hybrid LSTM-ARIMA model outperforms other algorithms in algorithmic investment strategies.

problem Developing an optimal algorithmic investment strategy.
method Combines LSTM and ARIMA models, using LSTM for final predictions and ARIMA residuals for boosting.
result LSTM-ARIMA algorithm outperforms all other algorithms across multiple equity indices.