A Review of Reinforcement Learning in Financial Applications

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Autores principales: Bai, Yahui, Gao, Yuhe, Wan, Runzhe, Zhang, Sheng, Song, Rui
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author Bai, Yahui
Gao, Yuhe
Wan, Runzhe
Zhang, Sheng
Song, Rui
author_facet Bai, Yahui
Gao, Yuhe
Wan, Runzhe
Zhang, Sheng
Song, Rui
contents In recent years, there has been a growing trend of applying Reinforcement Learning (RL) in financial applications. This approach has shown great potential to solve decision-making tasks in finance. In this survey, we present a comprehensive study of the applications of RL in finance and conduct a series of meta-analyses to investigate the common themes in the literature, such as the factors that most significantly affect RL's performance compared to traditional methods. Moreover, we identify challenges including explainability, Markov Decision Process (MDP) modeling, and robustness that hinder the broader utilization of RL in the financial industry and discuss recent advancements in overcoming these challenges. Finally, we propose future research directions, such as benchmarking, contextual RL, multi-agent RL, and model-based RL to address these challenges and to further enhance the implementation of RL in finance.
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spellingShingle A Review of Reinforcement Learning in Financial Applications
Bai, Yahui
Gao, Yuhe
Wan, Runzhe
Zhang, Sheng
Song, Rui
Computational Finance
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
In recent years, there has been a growing trend of applying Reinforcement Learning (RL) in financial applications. This approach has shown great potential to solve decision-making tasks in finance. In this survey, we present a comprehensive study of the applications of RL in finance and conduct a series of meta-analyses to investigate the common themes in the literature, such as the factors that most significantly affect RL's performance compared to traditional methods. Moreover, we identify challenges including explainability, Markov Decision Process (MDP) modeling, and robustness that hinder the broader utilization of RL in the financial industry and discuss recent advancements in overcoming these challenges. Finally, we propose future research directions, such as benchmarking, contextual RL, multi-agent RL, and model-based RL to address these challenges and to further enhance the implementation of RL in finance.
title A Review of Reinforcement Learning in Financial Applications
topic Computational Finance
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.12746