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In the field of quantitative trading, it is common practice to transform raw historical stock data into indicative signals for the market trend. Such signals are called alpha factors. Alphas in formula forms are more interpretable and thus…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2023-06-23 Shuo Yu , Hongyan Xue , Xiang Ao , Feiyang Pan , Jia He , Dandan Tu , Qing He

Genetic programming (GP) is the state-of-the-art in financial automated feature construction task. It employs reverse polish expression to represent features and then conducts the evolution process. However, with the development of deep…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-03-12 Jie Fang , Shutao Xia , Jianwu Lin , Zhikang Xia , Xiang Liu , Yong Jiang

Biological phenotypes are products of complex evolutionary processes in which selective forces influence multiple biological trait measurements in unknown ways. Phylogenetic factor analysis disentangles these relationships across the…

Automated alpha discovery is difficult because the search space of formulaic factors is combinatorial, the signal-to-noise ratio in daily equity data is low, and unconstrained program generation is operationally unsafe. We present Hubble,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Runze Shi , Shengyu Yan , Yuecheng Cai , Chengxi Lv

Alphas are pivotal in providing signals for quantitative trading. The industry highly values the discovery of formulaic alphas for their interpretability and ease of analysis, compared with the expressive yet overfitting-prone black-box…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-06-27 Feng Xu , Yan Yin , Xinyu Zhang , Tianyuan Liu , Shengyi Jiang , Zongzhang Zhang

Financial markets are noisy and non-stationary, making alpha mining highly sensitive to backtest noise and regime shifts. While recent agentic frameworks improve automation, they often lack controllable multi-round search and reliable reuse…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-05-19 Jun Han , Shuo Zhang , Wei Li , Yifan Dong , Tu Hu , Yumo Zhu , Xiaomin Yu , Xin Guo , Zhaowei Liu , Kunyi Wang , Jingping Liu , Tianyi Jiang , Ruichuan An , Sen Hu , Zhi Yang , Ronghao Che , Huacan Wang

Signal decay and regime shifts pose recurring challenges for data-driven investment strategies in non-stationary markets. Conventional time-series and machine learning approaches, which rely primarily on historical correlations, often…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2025-12-30 Zuoyou Jiang , Li Zhao , Rui Sun , Ruohan Sun , Zhongjian Li , Jing Li , Daxin Jiang , Zuo Bai , Cheng Hua

Large language models hold promise as scientific assistants, yet existing agents either rely solely on algorithm evolution or on deep research in isolation, both of which face critical limitations. Pure algorithm evolution, as in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Gang Liu , Yihan Zhu , Jie Chen , Meng Jiang

In this white paper, we present AlphaEvolve, an evolutionary coding agent that substantially enhances capabilities of state-of-the-art LLMs on highly challenging tasks such as tackling open scientific problems or optimizing critical pieces…

Automated feature engineering (AFE) enables AI systems to autonomously construct high-utility representations from raw tabular data. However, existing AFE methods rely on statistical heuristics, yielding brittle features that fail under…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Arun Vignesh Malarkkan , Wangyang Ying , Yanjie Fu

We introduce AlphaRank, an artificial intelligence approach to address the fixed-budget ranking and selection (R&S) problems. We formulate the sequential sampling decision as a Markov decision process and propose a Monte Carlo…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Ruihan Zhou , L. Jeff Hong , Yijie Peng

The biological functions of proteins often depend on dynamic structural ensembles. In this work, we develop a flow-based generative modeling approach for learning and sampling the conformational landscapes of proteins. We repurpose highly…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-04 Bowen Jing , Bonnie Berger , Tommi Jaakkola

Protein evolution through amino acid mutations is a cornerstone of life sciences. Recent advances in protein language models have shown rich evolutionary patterns, offering unprecedented potential for in-silicon directed evolution. However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Yaodong Yang , Yang Wang , Jinpeng Li , Pei Guo , Da Han , Guangyong Chen , Pheng-Ann Heng

We develop a general methodological framework for probabilistic inference in discrete- and continuous-time stochastic processes evolving on directed acyclic graphs (DAGs). The process is observed only at the leaf nodes, and the challenge is…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-05-27 Frank van der Meulen , Moritz Schauer , Stefan Sommer

The Apriori algorithm that mines frequent itemsets is one of the most popular and widely used data mining algorithms. Now days many algorithms have been proposed on parallel and distributed platforms to enhance the performance of Apriori…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-02-22 Sudhakar Singh , Rakhi Garg , P. K. Mishra

The task of financial analysis primarily encompasses two key areas: stock trend prediction and the corresponding financial question answering. Currently, machine learning and deep learning algorithms (ML&DL) have been widely applied for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Xiang Li , Zhenyu Li , Chen Shi , Yong Xu , Qing Du , Mingkui Tan , Jun Huang , Wei Lin

Factor Analysis has traditionally been utilized across diverse disciplines to extrapolate latent traits that influence the behavior of multivariate observed variables. Historically, the focus has been on analyzing data from a single study,…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-22 Elena Bortolato , Antonio Canale

We propose a framework for constructing factor models for alpha streams. Our motivation is threefold. 1) When the number of alphas is large, the sample covariance matrix is singular. 2) Its out-of-sample stability is challenging. 3)…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2014-12-02 Zura Kakushadze

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

Tabular data optimization methods aim to automatically find an optimal feature transformation process that generates high-value features and improves the performance of downstream machine learning tasks. Current frameworks for automated…

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