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With the recent advancements in machine learning (ML), artificial neural networks (ANN) are starting to play an increasingly important role in quantitative finance. Dynamic portfolio optimization is among many problems that have…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2024-11-18 Yaacov Kopeliovich , Michael Pokojovy

Transformer models have emerged as the leading approach for achieving state-of-the-art performance across various application domains, serving as the foundation for advanced large-scale deep learning (DL) models. However, efficiently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Yujie Wang , Youhe Jiang , Xupeng Miao , Fangcheng Fu , Shenhan Zhu , Xiaonan Nie , Yaofeng Tu , Bin Cui

In portfolio analysis, the traditional approach of replacing population moments with sample counterparts may lead to suboptimal portfolio choices. I show that optimal portfolio weights can be estimated using a machine learning (ML)…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2018-07-31 Daniel Kinn

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have achieved remarkable results in the task of generating realistic natural images. In most successful applications, GAN models share two common aspects: solving a challenging saddle point…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-21 Piotr Bojanowski , Armand Joulin , David Lopez-Paz , Arthur Szlam

In this paper, we study the Black-Litterman (BL) asset allocation model (Black and Litterman, 1990) under the hidden truncation skew-normal distribution (Arnold and Beaver, 2000). In particular, when returns are assumed to follow this skew…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2023-10-20 Jungjun Park , Andrew L. Nguyen

Systematic trading strategies are algorithmic procedures that allocate assets aiming to optimize a certain performance criterion. To obtain an edge in a highly competitive environment, the analyst needs to proper fine-tune its strategy, or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Adriano Koshiyama , Nick Firoozye , Philip Treleaven

Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) can be viewed as an implicit estimator of a data distribution, and this perspective motivates using the adversarial concept in the true input parameter estimation of black-box generators. While previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Dongjun Kim , Weonyoung Joo , Seungjae Shin , Kyungwoo Song , Il-Chul Moon

This study introduces a benchmark framework for evaluating the financial decision-making capabilities of large language models (LLMs) through portfolio optimization problems with mathematically explicit solutions. Unlike existing financial…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2026-05-28 Hanyong Cho , Jang Ho Kim

Automated liver segmentation from radiology scans (CT, MRI) can improve surgery and therapy planning and follow-up assessment in addition to conventional use for diagnosis and prognosis. Although convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-31 Ugur Demir , Zheyuan Zhang , Bin Wang , Matthew Antalek , Elif Keles , Debesh Jha , Amir Borhani , Daniela Ladner , Ulas Bagci

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have become one of the dominant methods for deep generative modeling. Despite their demonstrated success on multiple vision tasks, GANs are difficult to train and much research has been dedicated…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Abdullah Al-Dujaili , Tom Schmiedlechner , and Erik Hemberg , Una-May O'Reilly

Robust utility optimization enables an investor to deal with market uncertainty in a structured way, with the goal of maximizing the worst-case outcome. In this work, we propose a generative adversarial network (GAN) approach to…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-09-19 Florian Krach , Josef Teichmann , Hanna Wutte

Many scientific and technological problems are related to optimization. Among them, black-box optimization in high-dimensional space is particularly challenging. Recent neural network-based black-box optimization studies have shown…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Changhwi Park

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have brought about rapid progress towards generating photorealistic images. Yet the equitable allocation of their modeling capacity among subgroups has received less attention, which could lead to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Ning Yu , Ke Li , Peng Zhou , Jitendra Malik , Larry Davis , Mario Fritz

Dynamic portfolio optimization is the process of sequentially allocating wealth to a collection of assets in some consecutive trading periods, based on investors' return-risk profile. Automating this process with machine learning remains a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Pengqian Yu , Joon Sern Lee , Ilya Kulyatin , Zekun Shi , Sakyasingha Dasgupta

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) with clustered latent spaces can perform conditional generation in a completely unsupervised manner. In the real world, the salient attributes of unlabeled data can be imbalanced. However, most of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Uiwon Hwang , Heeseung Kim , Dahuin Jung , Hyemi Jang , Hyungyu Lee , Sungroh Yoon

Prediction models are traditionally optimized independently from their use in the asset allocation decision-making process. We address this shortcoming and present a framework for integrating regression prediction models in a mean-variance…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2022-12-01 Andrew Butler , Roy H. Kwon

We introduce a framework using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) for likelihood--free inference (LFI) and Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) where we replace the black-box simulator model with an approximator network and generate a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Vinay Jethava , Devdatt Dubhashi

Classification of large multivariate time series with strong class imbalance is an important task in real-world applications. Standard methods of class weights, oversampling, or parametric data augmentation do not always yield significant…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-15 Grace Deng , Cuize Han , Tommaso Dreossi , Clarence Lee , David S. Matteson

This paper proposes a novel meta-learning approach to optimize a robust portfolio ensemble. The method uses a deep generative model to generate diverse and high-quality sub-portfolios combined to form the ensemble portfolio. The generative…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Kamer Ali Yuksel

This study proposes a regime-aware reinforcement learning framework for long-horizon portfolio optimization. Moving beyond traditional feedforward and GARCH-based models, we design realistic environments where agents dynamically reallocate…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2025-09-19 Gabriel Nixon Raj