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Scaling Conditional Autoencoders for Portfolio Optimization via Uncertainty-Aware Factor Selection

Conditional Autoencoders (CAEs) offer a flexible, interpretable approach for estimating latent asset-pricing factors from firm characteristics. However, existing studies usually limit the latent factor dimension to around K=5 due to concerns that larger K can degrade performance. To overcome this ch

Holy Grail Math 8.5 Rigor 9 ·  November 21, 2025

Beyond Visual Realism: Toward Reliable Financial Time Series Generation

Generative models for financial time series often create data that look realistic and even reproduce stylized facts such as fat tails or volatility clustering. However, these apparent successes break down under trading backtests: models like GANs or WGAN-GP frequently collapse, yielding extreme and

Holy Grail Math 5.5 Rigor 6.5 ·  January 19, 2026

Behavioral Consistency Validation for LLM Agents: An Analysis of Trading-Style Switching through Stock-Market Simulation

Recent works have increasingly applied Large Language Models (LLMs) as agents in financial stock market simulations to test if micro-level behaviors aggregate into macro-level phenomena. However, a crucial question arises: Do LLM agents’ behaviors align with real market participants? This alignment

Street Traders Math 2.5 Rigor 6.5 ·  February 2, 2026

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