Alpha-GPT: Human-AI Interactive Alpha Mining for Quantitative Investment

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Main Authors: Wang, Saizhuo, Yuan, Hang, Zhou, Leon, Ni, Lionel M., Shum, Heung-Yeung, Guo, Jian
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author Wang, Saizhuo
Yuan, Hang
Zhou, Leon
Ni, Lionel M.
Shum, Heung-Yeung
Guo, Jian
author_facet Wang, Saizhuo
Yuan, Hang
Zhou, Leon
Ni, Lionel M.
Shum, Heung-Yeung
Guo, Jian
contents One of the most important tasks in quantitative investment research is mining new alphas (effective trading signals or factors). Traditional alpha mining methods, either hand-crafted factor synthesizing or algorithmic factor mining (e.g., search with genetic programming), have inherent limitations, especially in implementing the ideas of quants. In this work, we propose a new alpha mining paradigm by introducing human-AI interaction, and a novel prompt engineering algorithmic framework to implement this paradigm by leveraging the power of large language models. Moreover, we develop Alpha-GPT, a new interactive alpha mining system framework that provides a heuristic way to ``understand'' the ideas of quant researchers and outputs creative, insightful, and effective alphas. We demonstrate the effectiveness and advantage of Alpha-GPT via a number of alpha mining experiments.
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spellingShingle Alpha-GPT: Human-AI Interactive Alpha Mining for Quantitative Investment
Wang, Saizhuo
Yuan, Hang
Zhou, Leon
Ni, Lionel M.
Shum, Heung-Yeung
Guo, Jian
Computational Finance
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
One of the most important tasks in quantitative investment research is mining new alphas (effective trading signals or factors). Traditional alpha mining methods, either hand-crafted factor synthesizing or algorithmic factor mining (e.g., search with genetic programming), have inherent limitations, especially in implementing the ideas of quants. In this work, we propose a new alpha mining paradigm by introducing human-AI interaction, and a novel prompt engineering algorithmic framework to implement this paradigm by leveraging the power of large language models. Moreover, we develop Alpha-GPT, a new interactive alpha mining system framework that provides a heuristic way to ``understand'' the ideas of quant researchers and outputs creative, insightful, and effective alphas. We demonstrate the effectiveness and advantage of Alpha-GPT via a number of alpha mining experiments.
title Alpha-GPT: Human-AI Interactive Alpha Mining for Quantitative Investment
topic Computational Finance
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.00016