2 papers
cs.LG2026
MPFlow: Learning Budgeted Max-Flow Optimization on the Lightning Network with Deep Graph Reinforcement Learning
Harrison Rush, Vincent Davis, Simone Antonelli +3
We address liquidity placement in the Bitcoin Lightning Network (LN): given a fixed budget, which channels should a node open to maximize its routing capacity? We cast this as a bu…
cs.LG2026
Predicting Channel Closures in the Lightning Network with Machine Learning
Simone Antonelli, Vincent Davis, Harrison Rush +4
The Lightning Network (LN) is a second-layer protocol for Bitcoin designed to enable fast and cost-efficient off-chain transactions. Channels in the LN can be closed either by mutu…