Rough SABR Forward Market Model

This paper advances interest rate modeling in the post-LIBOR era by introducing rough stochastic volatility into the Forward Market Model (FMM). We establish a rigorous asymptotic expansion of swaption implied volatility, connecting the FMM to a rough Bergomi-type framework for forward swap rates. T

September 30, 2025 · 2 min · thequant.space

A Practitioner's Guide to AI+ML in Portfolio Investing

In this review, we provide practical guidance on some of the main machine learning tools used in portfolio weight formation. This is not an exhaustive list, but a fraction of the ones used and have some statistical analysis behind it. All this research is essentially tied to precision matrix of exce

September 29, 2025 · 2 min · thequant.space

AlphaSAGE: Structure-Aware Alpha Mining via GFlowNets for Robust Exploration

The automated mining of predictive signals, or alphas, is a central challenge in quantitative finance. While Reinforcement Learning (RL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for generating formulaic alphas, existing frameworks are fundamentally hampered by a triad of interconnected issues. First, the

September 29, 2025 · 2 min · thequant.space

Efficient simulation of prices for European call options under Heston stochastic-local volatility model: a comparison of methods

The Heston stochastic-local volatility model, consisting of a asset price process and a Cox–Ingersoll–Ross-type variance process, offers a wide range of applications in the financial industry. The pursuit for efficient model evaluation has been assiduously ongoing and central to which is the numeric

September 29, 2025 · 2 min · thequant.space

Eigenvector overlaps of sample covariance matrices with intersecting time periods

We compute exactly the overlap between the eigenvectors of two large empirical covariance matrices computed over intersecting time intervals, generalizing the results obtained previously for non-intersecting intervals. Our method relies on a particular form of Girko linearisation and extended local

September 29, 2025 · 1 min · thequant.space

Exponential Hedging for the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Process in the Presence of Linear Price Impact

In this work we study a continuous time exponential utility maximization problem in the presence of a linear temporary price impact. More precisely, for the case where the risky asset is given by the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck diffusion process we compute the optimal portfolio strategy and the corresponding

September 29, 2025 · 1 min · thequant.space

Extracting the Structure of Press Releases for Predicting Earnings Announcement Returns

We examine how textual features in earnings press releases predict stock returns on earnings announcement days. Using over 138,000 press releases from 2005 to 2023, we compare traditional bag-of-words and BERT-based embeddings. We find that press release content (soft information) is as informative

September 29, 2025 · 2 min · thequant.space

From Headlines to Holdings: Deep Learning for Smarter Portfolio Decisions

Deep learning offers new tools for portfolio optimization. We present an end-to-end framework that directly learns portfolio weights by combining Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks to model temporal patterns, Graph Attention Networks (GAT) to capture evolving inter-stock relationships, and senti

September 29, 2025 · 2 min · thequant.space

Noise estimation of SDE from a single data trajectory

In this paper, we propose a data-driven framework for model discovery of stochastic differential equations (SDEs) from a single trajectory, without requiring the ergodicity or stationary assumption on the underlying continuous process. By combining (stochastic) Taylor expansions with Girsanov transf

September 29, 2025 · 2 min · thequant.space

STRAPSim: A Portfolio Similarity Metric for ETF Alignment and Portfolio Trades

Accurately measuring portfolio similarity is critical for a wide range of financial applications, including Exchange-traded Fund (ETF) recommendation, portfolio trading, and risk alignment. Existing similarity measures often rely on exact asset overlap or static distance metrics, which fail to captu

September 29, 2025 · 2 min · thequant.space

When risk defies order: On the limits of fractional stochastic dominance

Motivated by recent work on monotone additive statistics and questions regarding optimal risk sharing for return-based risk measures, we investigate the existence, structure, and applications of Meyer risk measures. Those are monetary risk measures consistent with fractional stochastic orders sugges

September 29, 2025 · 2 min · thequant.space

Rethinking Portfolio Risk: Forecasting Volatility Through Cointegrated Asset Dynamics

We introduce the Historical and Dynamic Volatility Ratios (HVR/DVR) and show that equity and index volatilities are cointegrated at intraday and daily horizons. This allows us to construct a VECM to forecast portfolio volatility by exploiting volatility cointegration. On S&P 500 data, HVR is general

September 28, 2025 · 2 min · thequant.space

SIMPOL Model for Solving Continuous-Time Heterogeneous Agent Problems

This paper presents SIMPOL (Simplified Policy Iteration), a modular numerical framework for solving continuous-time heterogeneous agent models. The core economic problem, the optimization of consumption and savings under idiosyncratic uncertainty, is formulated as a coupled system of partial differe

September 28, 2025 · 2 min · thequant.space

Conditional Risk Minimization with Side Information: A Tractable, Universal Optimal Transport Framework

Conditional risk minimization arises in high-stakes decisions where risk must be assessed in light of side information, such as stressed economic conditions, specific customer profiles, or other contextual covariates. Constructing reliable conditional distributions from limited data is notoriously d

September 27, 2025 · 2 min · thequant.space

Continuous-Time Reinforcement Learning for Asset-Liability Management

This paper proposes a novel approach for Asset-Liability Management (ALM) by employing continuous-time Reinforcement Learning (RL) with a linear-quadratic (LQ) formulation that incorporates both interim and terminal objectives. We develop a model-free, policy gradient-based soft actor-critic algorit

September 27, 2025 · 2 min · thequant.space

Investor Sentiment and Market Movements: A Granger Causality Perspective

The stock market is heavily influenced by investor sentiment, which can drive buying or selling behavior. Sentiment analysis helps in gauging the overall sentiment of market participants towards a particular stock or the market as a whole. Positive sentiment often leads to increased buying activity

September 27, 2025 · 2 min · thequant.space

The Price of Liquidity: Implied Volatility of Automated Market Maker Fees

An automated market maker (AMM) provides a method for creating a decentralized exchange on the blockchain. For this purpose, individual investors lend liquidity to the AMM pool in exchange for a stream of fees earned from its operations as a market maker. Within this work, we reinterpret the loss-ve

September 27, 2025 · 2 min · thequant.space

A General CoVaR Based on Entropy Pooling

We propose a general CoVaR framework that extends the traditional CoVaR by incorporating diverse expert views and information, such as asset moment characteristics, quantile insights, and perspectives on the relative loss distribution between two assets. To integrate these expert views effectively w

September 26, 2025 · 2 min · thequant.space

Factor-Based Conditional Diffusion Model for Portfolio Optimization

We propose a novel conditional diffusion model for portfolio optimization that learns the cross-sectional distribution of next-day stock returns conditioned on asset-specific factors. The model builds on the Diffusion Transformer with token-wise conditioning, linking each asset’s return to its own f

September 26, 2025 · 2 min · thequant.space

Forecasting Liquidity Withdraw with Machine Learning Models

Liquidity withdrawal is a critical indicator of market fragility. In this project, I test a framework for forecasting liquidity withdrawal at the individual-stock level, ranging from less liquid stocks to highly liquid large-cap tickers, and evaluate the relative performance of competing model class

September 26, 2025 · 2 min · thequant.space