AlphaQuanter: An End-to-End Tool-Augmented Agentic Reinforcement Learning Framework for Stock Trading (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing Large Language Models (LLMs) lack the end-to-end optimization needed to learn a coherent strategy from market feedback. |
| Approach: | They propose a single-agent framework that uses reinforcement learning to learn a dynamic policy over a transparent decision workflow. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework achieves state-of-the-art performance on key financial metrics. |
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