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There are a large quantity of papers on Crypto, DOAs, and NFTs. And for conferences I would recommend MIT trading conference and the Quant Insights conference. From the blogosphere, identifying market regimes via asset class correlation was pretty interesting (link).

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Designing Universal Causal Deep Learning Models: The Case of... (Score: 1) Luca Galimberti, Giulia Livieri, Anastasis Kratsios (2022-10-24) Deep learning (DL) is becoming indispensable to contemporary stochastic analysis and finance; nevertheless, it is still unclear how to design a principled DL framework for approximating infinite-dimen... (10 posts; 4 tweeters)

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Optimal Settings for Cryptocurrency Trading Pairs (Score: 1) Di Zhang, Qiang Niu, Youzhou Zhou (2022-10-20) The goal of cryptocurrencies is decentralization. In principle, all currencies have equal status. Unlike traditional stock markets, there is no default currency of denomination (fiat), thus the tradin... (3 posts; 3 tweeters)

Shannon entropy: an econophysical approach to cryptocurrency portfolios (Score: 1) Noe Rodriguez-Rodriguez, Octavio Miramontes (2022-10-06) Cryptocurrency markets have attracted many interest for global investors because of their novelty, wide online availability, increasing capitalization and potential profits. In the econophysics tradit... (3 posts; 3 tweeters)

Learning Better Intent Representations for Financial Open Intent... (Score: 0.75) Xianzhi Li, Will Aitken, Xiaodan Zhu, Stephen W. Thomas (2022-10-25) With the recent surge of NLP technologies in the financial domain, banks and other financial entities have adopted virtual agents (VA) to assist customers. A challenging problem for VAs in this domain... (3 posts; 3 tweeters)

Multiparty Democracy in Decentralized Autonomous Organization... (Score: 0.75) Xiaotong Sun, Xi Chen, Charalampos Stasinakis, Georgios Sermpinis (2022-10-20) Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) provides a decentralized governance solution through blockchain, where decision-making process relies on on-chain voting and follows majority rule. This pap... (2 posts; 2 tweeters)

Reap the Harvest on Blockchain: A Survey of Yield Farming Protocols (Score: 0.75) Jiahua Xu, Yebo Feng (2022-10-09) Yield farming represents an immensely popular asset management activity in decentralized finance (DeFi). It involves supplying, borrowing, or staking crypto assets to earn an income in forms of transa... (2 posts; 2 tweeters)

Credible Decentralized Exchange Design via Verifiable Sequencing Rules (Score: 0.75) Matheus V. X. Ferreira, David C. Parkes (2022-09-30) Trading on decentralized exchanges has been one of the primary use cases for permissionless blockchains with daily trading volume exceeding billions of U.S.~dollars. In the status quo, users broadcast... (3 posts; 3 tweeters)

Predicting Non-Fungible Token (NFT) Collections: A Contextual... (Score: 0.5) Wesley Joon-Wie Tann, Akhil Vuputuri, Ee-Chien Chang (2022-10-14) Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are digital assets stored on a blockchain representing real-world objects such as art or collectibles. It is a multibillion-dollar market, where the number of NFT collection... (2 posts; 2 tweeters)

Multivariate Optimized Certainty Equivalent Risk Measures and... (Score: 0.5) Achraf Tamtalini, Anis Matoussi, Sarah Kaakai (2022-10-25) We present a framework for constructing multivariate risk measures that is inspired from univariate Optimized Certainty Equivalent (OCE) risk measures. We show that this new class of risk measures ver... (4 posts; 2 tweeters)

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Design and Analysis of Optimized Portfolios for Selected Sectors... (Score: 0.5) Sen, Jaydip, Dutta, Abhishek (2022-10-08) Portfolio optimization is a challenging problem that has attracted considerable attention and effort from researchers. The optimization of stock portfolios is a particularly hard problem since the sto... (2 posts; 2 tweeters)

Stable Dividends under Linear-Quadratic Optimization (Score: 0.5) Benjamin Avanzi, Debbie Kusch Falden, Mogens Steffensen (2022-10-07) The optimization criterion for dividends from a risky business is most often formalized in terms of the expected present value of future dividends. That criterion disregards a potential, explicit dema... (8 posts; 2 tweeters)

Algorithmic Trading Using Continuous Action Space Deep... (Score: 0.5) Naseh Majidi, Mahdi Shamsi, Farokh Marvasti (2022-10-07) Price movement prediction has always been one of the traders' concerns in financial market trading. In order to increase their profit, they can analyze the historical data and predict the price moveme... (2 posts; 2 tweeters)

Universal Quantum Speedup for Branch-and-Bound, Branch-and-Cut,... (Score: 0.5) Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Pierre Minssen, Romina Yalovetzky, Marco P (2022-10-06) Mixed Integer Programs (MIPs) model many optimization problems of interest in Computer Science, Operations Research, and Financial Engineering. Solving MIPs is NP-Hard in general, but several solvers ... (2 posts; 2 tweeters)

Inserting or Stretching Points in Finite Difference Discretizations (Score: 0.5) Jherek Healy (2022-10-05) Partial differential equations sometimes have critical points where the solution or some of its derivatives are discontinuous. The simplest example is a discontinuity in the initial condition. It is w... (6 posts; 2 tweeters)

Boundary-safe PINNs extension: Application to non-linear parabolic... (Score: 0.5) Joel P. Villarino, Álvaro Leitao, José A. García-Rodríguez (2022-10-05) The goal of this work is to develop deep learning numerical methods for solving option XVA pricing problems given by non-linear PDE models. A novel strategy for the treatment of the boundary condition... (2 posts; 2 tweeters)

The Empirical Reality of IT Project Cost Overruns: Discovering A... (Score: 0.5) Bent Flyvbjerg, Alexander Budzier, Jong Seok Lee, Mark Keil, Dani (2022-09-30) If managers assume a normal or near-normal distribution of Information Technology (IT) project cost overruns, as is common, and cost overruns can be shown to follow a power-law distribution, managers ... (2 posts; 2 tweeters)

Portfolio optimization with discrete simulated annealing (Score: 0.5) Álvaro Rubio-García, Juan José García-Ripoll, Diego Porras (2022-10-03) Portfolio optimization is an important process in finance that consists in finding the optimal asset allocation that maximizes expected returns while minimizing risk. When assets are allocated in disc... (2 posts; 2 tweeters)

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When to Make Exceptions: Exploring Language Models as Accounts of... (Score: 3.75) Zhijing Jin, Sydney Levine, Fernando Gonzalez, Ojasv Kamal, Maart (2022-10-04) AI systems are becoming increasingly intertwined with human life. In order to effectively collaborate with humans and ensure safety, AI systems need to be able to understand, interpret and predict hum... (24 posts; 12 tweeters)

Schema-aware Reference as Prompt Improves Data-Efficient... (Score: 1.75) Yunzhi Yao, Shengyu Mao, Xiang Chen, Ningyu Zhang, Shumin Deng, H (2022-10-19) Information Extraction, which aims to extract structural relational triple or event from unstructured texts, often suffers from data scarcity issues. With the development of pre-trained language model... (19 posts; 7 tweeters)

Class Based Thresholding in Early Exit Semantic Segmentation Networks (Score: 1.75) Alperen Görmez, Erdem Koyuncu (2022-10-27) We propose Class Based Thresholding (CBT) to reduce the computational cost of early exit semantic segmentation models while preserving the mean intersection over union (mIoU) performance. A key idea o... (5 posts; 4 tweeters)

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