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20202026
most citedTail-GAN: Learning to Simulate Tail Risk Scenarios

10 citations · 29 across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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30 papers

astro-ph.SR2026

20,000 Rotation Periods in Nearby Open Clusters and Moving Groups from ZTF and ASAS-SN

Yuxi Lu

Open clusters provide uniquely powerful laboratories for studying stellar evolution because their members share a common age and chemical composition. Stellar rotation of low-mass…

quant-ph2026

Gaussian Boson Sampling for Asset Clustering in Statistical Arbitrage Portfolios

Dayne Marcus Lopena, Daniel Buguks, Zhenghao Li +7

Gaussian Boson Sampling (GBS) provides a native photonic quantum heuristic for sampling dense subgraphs from adjacency matrices, offering a scalable physical approach to combinator…

cs.LG2026

Data-Driven Graph Filters via Adaptive Spectral Shaping

Dylan Sandfelder, Mihai Cucuringu, Xiaowen Dong

We introduce Adaptive Spectral Shaping, a data-driven framework for graph filtering that learns a reusable baseline spectral kernel and modulates it with a small set of Gaussian fa…

q-fin.TR2025

JaxMARL-HFT: GPU-Accelerated Large-Scale Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for High-Frequency Trading

Valentin Mohl, Sascha Frey, Reuben Leyland +6

Agent-based modelling (ABM) approaches for high-frequency financial markets are difficult to calibrate and validate, partly due to the large parameter space created by defining fix…

cs.CE2025

DeltaLag: Learning Dynamic Lead-Lag Patterns in Financial Markets

Wanyun Zhou, Saizhuo Wang, Mihai Cucuringu +5

The lead-lag effect, where the price movement of one asset systematically precedes that of another, has been widely observed in financial markets and conveys valuable predictive si…

cs.LG2025

On the Stability of Graph Convolutional Neural Networks: A Probabilistic Perspective

Ning Zhang, Henry Kenlay, Li Zhang +2

Graph convolutional neural networks (GCNNs) have emerged as powerful tools for analyzing graph-structured data, achieving remarkable success across diverse applications. However, t…

q-fin.CP2025

Forecasting Intraday Volume in Equity Markets with Machine Learning

Mihai Cucuringu, Kang Li, Chao Zhang

This study focuses on forecasting intraday trading volumes, a crucial component for portfolio implementation, especially in high-frequency (HF) trading environments. Given the curr…

q-fin.TR2025

ClusterLOB: Enhancing Trading Strategies by Clustering Orders in Limit Order Books

Yichi Zhang, Mihai Cucuringu, Alexander Y. Shestopaloff +1

In the rapidly evolving world of financial markets, understanding the dynamics of limit order book (LOB) is crucial for unraveling market microstructure and participant behavior. W…

q-fin.PM2025

Tactical Asset Allocation with Macroeconomic Regime Detection

Daniel Cunha Oliveira, Dylan Sandfelder, André Fujita +2

This paper extends the tactical asset allocation literature by incorporating regime modeling using techniques from machine learning. We propose a novel model that classifies curren…

stat.ML2025

Generalized Factor Neural Network Model for High-dimensional Regression

Zichuan Guo, Mihai Cucuringu, Alexander Y. Shestopaloff

We tackle the challenges of modeling high-dimensional data sets, particularly those with latent low-dimensional structures hidden within complex, non-linear, and noisy relationship…

q-fin.TR2025

The Market Maker's Dilemma: Navigating the Fill Probability vs. Post-Fill Returns Trade-Off

Jakob Albers, Mihai Cucuringu, Sam Howison +1

Using data from a live trading experiment on the Binance Bitcoin perpetual, we examine the effects of (i) basic order book mechanics and (ii) the persistence of price changes from…

q-fin.ST2024

A GCN-LSTM Approach for ES-mini and VX Futures Forecasting

Nikolas Michael, Mihai Cucuringu, Sam Howison

We propose a novel data-driven network framework for forecasting problems related to E-mini S\&P 500 and CBOE Volatility Index futures, in which products with different expirations…

q-fin.ST2023

Dynamic Time Warping for Lead-Lag Relationships in Lagged Multi-Factor Models

Yichi Zhang, Mihai Cucuringu, Alexander Y. Shestopaloff +1

In multivariate time series systems, lead-lag relationships reveal dependencies between time series when they are shifted in time relative to each other. Uncovering such relationsh…

q-fin.ST2023★ 2 cited

Graph Neural Networks for Forecasting Multivariate Realized Volatility with Spillover Effects

Chao Zhang, Xingyue Pu, Mihai Cucuringu +1

We present a novel methodology for modeling and forecasting multivariate realized volatilities using customized graph neural networks to incorporate spillover effects across stocks…

stat.ML2023

Robust Detection of Lead-Lag Relationships in Lagged Multi-Factor Models

Yichi Zhang, Mihai Cucuringu, Alexander Y. Shestopaloff +1

In multivariate time series systems, key insights can be obtained by discovering lead-lag relationships inherent in the data, which refer to the dependence between two time series…

stat.ML2023★ 1 cited

OFTER: An Online Pipeline for Time Series Forecasting

Nikolas Michael, Mihai Cucuringu, Sam Howison

We introduce OFTER, a time series forecasting pipeline tailored for mid-sized multivariate time series. OFTER utilizes the non-parametric models of k-nearest neighbors and Generali…

q-fin.TR2023

DeFi: data-driven characterisation of Uniswap v3 ecosystem & an ideal crypto law for liquidity pools

Deborah Miori, Mihai Cucuringu

Uniswap is a Constant Product Market Maker built around liquidity pools, where pairs of tokens are exchanged subject to a fee that is proportional to the size of transactions. At t…

q-fin.MF2022

SEC Form 13F-HR: Statistical investigation of trading imbalances and profitability analysis

Deborah Miori, Mihai Cucuringu

US Institutions with more than $100 million assets under management must disclose part of their long positions into the SEC Form 13F-HR on a quarterly basis. We consider the number…

q-fin.MF2022★ 4 cited

Returns-Driven Macro Regimes and Characteristic Lead-Lag Behaviour between Asset Classes

Deborah Miori, Mihai Cucuringu

We define data-driven macroeconomic regimes by clustering the relative performance in time of indices belonging to different asset classes. We then investigate lead-lag relationshi…

stat.ML2022★ 1 cited

Graph similarity learning for change-point detection in dynamic networks

Deborah Sulem, Henry Kenlay, Mihai Cucuringu +1

Dynamic networks are ubiquitous for modelling sequential graph-structured data, e.g., brain connectome, population flows and messages exchanges. In this work, we consider dynamic n…

q-fin.RM2022★ 10 cited

Tail-GAN: Learning to Simulate Tail Risk Scenarios

Rama Cont, Mihai Cucuringu, Renyuan Xu +1

The estimation of loss distributions for dynamic portfolios requires the simulation of scenarios representing realistic joint dynamics of their components. We propose a novel data-…

q-fin.ST2022★ 1 cited

Volatility forecasting with machine learning and intraday commonality

Chao Zhang, Yihuang Zhang, Mihai Cucuringu +1

We apply machine learning models to forecast intraday realized volatility (RV), by exploiting commonality in intraday volatility via pooling stock data together, and by incorporati…

q-fin.ST2022★ 4 cited

Option Volume Imbalance as a predictor for equity market returns

Nikolas Michael, Mihai Cucuringu, Sam Howison

We investigate the use of the normalized imbalance between option volumes corresponding to positive and negative market views, as a predictor for directional price movements in the…

cs.LG2022

Local2Global: A distributed approach for scaling representation learning on graphs

Lucas G. S. Jeub, Giovanni Colavizza, Xiaowen Dong +2

We propose a decentralised "local2global"' approach to graph representation learning, that one can a-priori use to scale any embedding technique. Our local2global approach proceeds…