Trading

Discovering financial factors with language model agents

This project compares language model agents, random search and genetic search for financial factor discovery, isolating the contribution of experimental memory under a common evaluation budget.

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Large language models and news sentiment for algorithmic trading

This project investigates whether financial news sentiment extracted by large language models can improve trading signals, with an emphasis on Apple stock, news timing and rigorous backtesting.

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Uncertainty quantification for large language models

This MMF project studies uncertainty estimates for transformer models, initially on tabular classification, with potential applications to the reliability of trading predictions.

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Decision trees with complex conditions for trading

Design and compare decision trees with multiple-variable conditions for interpretable prediction on trading or fraud data.

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Enhancing Trading Strategy Robustness through Anomaly Detection

This project explores the use of anomaly detection techniques, such as One-Class SVM, to identify the conditions under which algorithmic trading strategies are likely to succeed, ensuring their applicability and extending the approach to portfolio-wide strategy optimization.

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JDSE 2022

The Junior Conference on DataScience and Engeneering 2022 (JDSE) took place on september 15-16, on the Polytechnique campus (Palaiseau).

Hugo Thimonier has the opportunity to present “TracInAD: Measuring Influence for Anomaly Detection” to the audience.

Marc Velay won the best poster contest with his poster about “Robustness Analysis of Deep RL for Portfolio Selection”.

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Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Automated Trading (MMF)

Learning reward functions from portfolio allocation strategies and evaluating inverse reinforcement learning for automated trading.

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