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Mastering multiple tasks through exploration and learning in an environment poses a significant challenge in reinforcement learning (RL). Unsupervised RL has been introduced to address this challenge by training policies with intrinsic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Junkai Zhang , Weitong Zhang , Dongruo Zhou , Quanquan Gu

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) are a new family of probabilistic samplers where an agent learns a stochastic policy for generating complex combinatorial structure through a series of decision-making steps. Despite being inspired from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Dinghuai Zhang , Ling Pan , Ricky T. Q. Chen , Aaron Courville , Yoshua Bengio

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) learn to sample diverse candidates in proportion to a reward function, making them well-suited for scientific discovery, where exploring multiple promising solutions is crucial. Further extending…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Seokwon Yoon , Youngbin Choi , Seunghyuk Cho , Seungbeom Lee , MoonJeong Park , Dongwoo Kim

Large language models (LLMs), despite possessing latent safety understanding from their vast pretraining data, remain vulnerable to generating harmful content and exhibit issues such as over-refusal and utility degradation after safety…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yi Zhang , An Zhang , XiuYu Zhang , Leheng Sheng , Yuxin Chen , Zhenkai Liang , Xiang Wang

Financial intelligence generation from vast data sources has typically relied on traditional methods of knowledge-graph construction or database engineering. Recently, fine-tuned financial domain-specific Large Language Models (LLMs), have…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Nicole Cho , Nishan Srishankar , Lucas Cecchi , William Watson

Alpha factor mining is a fundamental task in quantitative trading, aimed at discovering interpretable signals that can predict asset returns beyond systematic market risk. While traditional methods rely on manual formula design or heuristic…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Lang Cao

The formulaic alphas are mathematical formulas that transform raw stock data into indicated signals. In the industry, a collection of formulaic alphas is combined to enhance modeling accuracy. Existing alpha mining only employs the neural…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-03-01 Tao Ren , Ruihan Zhou , Jinyang Jiang , Jiafeng Liang , Qinghao Wang , Yijie Peng

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) shows significant promise in knowledge-intensive tasks by improving domain specificity, enhancing temporal relevance, and reducing hallucinations. However, applying RAG to finance encounters critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Mohammad Zahangir Alam , Khandoker Ashik Uz Zaman , Mahdi H. Miraz

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) enable structured generation with inherent diversity, but existing sampling strategies often rely on weak guided exploration, slowing early discovery of high-reward candidates. In tasks such as molecular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Rui Zhu , Yudong Zhang , Xuan Yu , Chen Zhang , Xu Wang , Yang Wang

While Large Language Model (LLM) agents show promise in automated trading, they still face critical limitations. Prominent multi-agent frameworks often suffer from inefficiency, produce inconsistent signals, and lack the end-to-end…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Zheye Deng , Weixiang Yan , Changlong Yu , Jiashu Wang

Large language models (LLMs) can generate syntactically valid optimization programs, yet often struggle to reliably choose an effective modeling strategy, leading to incorrect formulations and inefficient solver behavior. We propose SAGE, a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Ruiqing Zhao , Fengzhi Li , Yuan Zuo , Rui Liu , Yansong Liu , Yunfei Ma , Fanyu Meng , Junlan Feng

In the last decades, the capacity to generate large amounts of data in science and engineering applications has been growing steadily. Meanwhile, machine learning has progressed to become a suitable tool to process and utilise the available…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Alex Hernandez-Garcia , Nikita Saxena , Moksh Jain , Cheng-Hao Liu , Yoshua Bengio

Financial document question answering (QA) demands complex multi-step numerical reasoning over heterogeneous evidence--structured tables, textual narratives, and footnotes--scattered across corporate filings. Existing retrieval-augmented…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Yang Shu , Yingmin Liu , Zequn Xie

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets), a class of generative models have recently emerged as a suitable framework for generating diverse and high-quality molecular structures by learning from unnormalized reward distributions. Previous works…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Mohit Pandey , Gopeshh Subbaraj , Emmanuel Bengio

In the trading process, financial signals often imply the time to buy and sell assets to generate excess returns compared to a benchmark (e.g., an index). Alpha is the portion of an asset's return that is not explained by exposure to this…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Yining Wang , Jinman Zhao , Yuri Lawryshyn

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) are powerful samplers for compositional objects that, by design, sample proportionally to a given non-negative reward. Nonetheless, in practice, they often struggle to explore the reward landscape…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Pedro Dall'Antonia , Tiago da Silva , Daniel Augusto de Souza , César Lincoln C. Mattos , Diego Mesquita

The deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) faces a critical bottleneck when handling lengthy inputs: the prohibitive memory footprint of the Key Value (KV) cache. To address this bottleneck, the token pruning paradigm leverages…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yifei Wang , Yueqi Wang , Zhenrui Yue , Huimin Zeng , Yong Wang , Ismini Lourentzou , Zhengzhong Tu , Xiangxiang Chu , Julian McAuley

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) are a flexible family of amortized samplers trained to generate discrete and compositional objects with probability proportional to a reward function. However, learning efficiency is constrained by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Pedro Dall'Antonia , Tiago da Silva , Daniel Csillag , Salem Lahlou , Diego Mesquita

Automated data preparation is crucial for democratizing machine learning, yet existing reinforcement learning (RL) based approaches suffer from inefficient exploration in the vast space of possible preprocessing pipelines. We present…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Jing Chang , Chang Liu , Jinbin Huang , Rui Mao , Jianbin Qin

The recently proposed generative flow networks (GFlowNets) are a method of training a policy to sample compositional discrete objects with probabilities proportional to a given reward via a sequence of actions. GFlowNets exploit the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Daniil Tiapkin , Nikita Morozov , Alexey Naumov , Dmitry Vetrov