Megan Shearer defends thesis proposal
On June 1 2021, Megan Shearer presented and successfully defended her dissertation proposal titled "Modeling Trading Strategies in Financial Markets with Data, Simulation, and Deep Reinforcement Learning".
The dissertation committee comprises:
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Spoofing the Limit Order Book: A Strategic Agent-Based Analysis
X Wang, C Hoang, Y Vorobeychik, and MP Wellman
Games 2021 12(2) 46, May 2021.
Abstract
We present an agent-based model of manipulating prices in financial markets through spoofing: submitting spurious orders to mislead traders who learn from…
Log-time Prediction Markets for Interval Securities
M Dudík, X Wang, D Pennock, and D Rothschild
20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), May 2021 (forthcoming).
Abstract
We design a prediction market to recover a complete and fully general probability…
A Strategic Analysis of Portfolio Compression
K Mayo and MP Wellman
20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Extended Abstract, May 2021 (forthcoming).
Abstract
Portfolio compression, the netting of cycles in a financial network, is employed…
Evolution Strategies for Approximate Solution of Bayesian Games
Z Li and MP Wellman
35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Feb 2021 (forthcoming).
Abstract
We address the problem of solving complex Bayesian games, characterized by high-dimensional type and action spaces, many (> 2) players,…
Iterative Empirical Game Solving via Single Policy Best Response
M Smith, T Anthony, and MP Wellman
9th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), Spotlight Presentation, May 2021 (forthcoming).
Abstract
Policy-Space Response Oracles (PSRO) is a general algorithmic framework for learning…
Xintong Wang defends dissertation
On Dec 21, 2020, Xintong Wang successfully defended her PhD dissertation titled, "Computational Modeling and Design of Financial Markets: Towards Manipulation-Resistant and Expressive Markets."
Congratulations, Dr. Wang! We wish you a…
An Agent-Based Model of Financial Benchmark Manipulation
M Shearer, G Rauterberg, and MP Wellman
ICML Workshop on Applications and Infrastructure for Multi-Agent Learning, June 2019
Abstract
Financial benchmarks estimate market values or reference rates used in a wide variety of contexts, but are…
Learning-Based Trading Strategies in the Face of Market Manipulation
X Wang, C Hoang, and MP Wellman
ACM International Conference on AI and Finance, October 2020.
Abstract
We study learning-based trading strategies in markets where prices can be manipulated through spoofing: the practice of submitting spurious…
Economic reasoning from simulation-based game models
MP Wellman
Œconomia, 10(2):257–278, 2020.
Abstract
Simulation modeling in economics has historically been viewed as an alternative to mainstream analytic technique, and as such has generally and intentionally avoided the focus on rational…
