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Towards Robust Representation of Limit Orders Books for Deep Learning Models

Trading and Market Microstructure 2022-12-08 v2

Abstract

The success of deep learning-based limit order book forecasting models is highly dependent on the quality and the robustness of the input data representation. A significant body of the quantitative finance literature focuses on utilising different deep learning architectures without taking into consideration the key assumptions these models make with respect to the input data representation. In this paper, we highlight the issues associated with the commonly-used representations of limit order book data from both a theoretical and practical perspectives. We also show the fragility of the representations under adversarial perturbations and propose two simple modifications to the existing representations that match the theoretical assumptions of deep learning models. Finally, we show experimentally how our proposed representations lead to state-of-the-art performance in both accuracy and robustness utilising very simple neural network architectures.

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@article{arxiv.2110.05479,
  title  = {Towards Robust Representation of Limit Orders Books for Deep Learning Models},
  author = {Yufei Wu and Mahmoud Mahfouz and Daniele Magazzeni and Manuela Veloso},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.05479},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2110.04752

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