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Quant-Arena benchmark tests LLM agents for quantitative trading research

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Researchers have introduced Quant-Arena, a new benchmark and leaderboard designed to evaluate the end-to-end quantitative research capabilities of large language models (LLMs) in financial trading. The benchmark uses real A-share market data, requiring models to construct trading strategies based on historical data from 2022-2023 and then test their performance on unseen data from 2024. While nine frontier models were evaluated, with GPT-6 Astra performing the best, none of the models managed to outperform the equal-weight market average in the sealed year. AI

IMPACT This benchmark could drive development of more sophisticated LLM agents capable of complex, iterative tasks beyond simple text generation.

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Quant-Arena benchmark tests LLM agents for quantitative trading research

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Houde Qian, Zheng Jiang, Wenyi Li, Chenxi Xu, Xinjie Lin, Yuzhao Peng, Ruoyu Han, Youjie Zheng, Kaisen Yang, Qinhuai Na, You Fu, Calvin Xiao ·

    Quant-Arena: Benchmarking LLM Agents for Quantitative Trading Research

    arXiv:2610.30113v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quantitative research is an iterative loop: a researcher proposes a market hypothesis, implements it as an executable signal, tests it on historical data, and decides what to keep. Existing benchmarks score formulas, code, or indivi…

  2. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Quant-Arena: Benchmarking LLM Agents for Quantitative Trading Research

    Quant-Arena benchmarks end-to-end quantitative research by evaluating whether language models can build trading strategies on historical A-share data that remain profitable in a sealed future year.

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