Exploring Sentiment Manipulation by LLM-Enabled Intelligent Trading Agents

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contents Companies across all economic sectors continue to deploy large language models at a rapid pace. Reinforcement learning is experiencing a resurgence of interest due to its association with the fine-tuning of language models from human feedback. Tool-chain language models control task-specific agents; if the converse has not already appeared, it soon will. In this paper, we present what we believe is the first investigation of an intelligent trading agent based on continuous deep reinforcement learning that also controls a large language model with which it can post to a social media feed observed by other traders. We empirically investigate the performance and impact of such an agent in a simulated financial market, finding that it learns to optimize its total reward, and thereby augment its profit, by manipulating the sentiment of the posts it produces. The paper concludes with discussion, limitations, and suggestions for future work.
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spellingShingle Exploring Sentiment Manipulation by LLM-Enabled Intelligent Trading Agents
Byrd, David
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
Multiagent Systems
Companies across all economic sectors continue to deploy large language models at a rapid pace. Reinforcement learning is experiencing a resurgence of interest due to its association with the fine-tuning of language models from human feedback. Tool-chain language models control task-specific agents; if the converse has not already appeared, it soon will. In this paper, we present what we believe is the first investigation of an intelligent trading agent based on continuous deep reinforcement learning that also controls a large language model with which it can post to a social media feed observed by other traders. We empirically investigate the performance and impact of such an agent in a simulated financial market, finding that it learns to optimize its total reward, and thereby augment its profit, by manipulating the sentiment of the posts it produces. The paper concludes with discussion, limitations, and suggestions for future work.
title Exploring Sentiment Manipulation by LLM-Enabled Intelligent Trading Agents
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
Multiagent Systems
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.16343