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Life sciences · Preprint
arXiv · September 8, 2026
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This is an unreviewed preprint introducing AlphaRJM, a machine learning approach for automated financial alpha discovery using reward-jump memory and stochastic return modeling. The authors report empirical gains across multiple equity universes and forecasting horizons, but no peer-reviewed evidence, statistical testing, or performance metrics are provided to support claims of superiority over existing methods.
Preprint. Intervention: AlphaRJM algorithm: Reward-Jump Memory for stochastic return-guided alpha discovery with action-conditioned SDE return critic.
AlphaRJM delivers 'strong and stable gains' across multiple equity universes, forecasting horizons, and random seeds (exact magnitude not quantified in abstract) Ablations confirm complementary roles of persistent evaluation history, stochastic return modeling, and distributional supervision
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This is a preprint describing a novel machine learning algorithm for financial alpha discovery with empirical validation across equity universes, but lacks peer review, clinical or health outcomes, and does not constitute evidence for clinical practice or established scientific claims.
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Formulaic alpha discovery is a pool-dependent symbolic search problem in which informative feedback is observed primarily when a complete expression is evaluated. This delayed feedback creates two coupled difficulties: the retained alpha pool does not preserve the full history of realized evaluation feedback, and the value of an intermediate construction action is uncertain because its consequence depends on the formula eventually completed. We introduce AlphaRJM, which addresses these difficulties through Reward-Jump Memory, an event-driven latent state that remains fixed during token construction and updates only at terminal evaluation events using the realized pool reward and evaluation outcome, and an action-conditioned SDE return critic that represents future discounted discovery returns with stochastic particles. The particles guide action selection through their mean and uncertainty and are learned using a distributional Bellman objective combining energy-distance matching, mean calibration, and jump regularization. Empirically, AlphaRJM delivers strong and stable gains across multiple equity universes, forecasting horizons, and random seeds, while ablations confirm the complementary roles of persistent evaluation history, stochastic return modeling, and distributional supervision.
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