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Artificial Intelligence in Finance, Volume 2: Reinforcement Learning Theory and Practice
Discipline: Operational Risk, Regulation, Investing
First published:
ISBN: 9781782724544
In this second volume of the Artificial Intelligence in Finance series, the authors explore how reinforcement learning (RL) is transforming financial modelling, strategy and decision-making.
What you’ll learn:
- Foundations first: Markov decision processes, optimal policy learning, and general RL frameworks.
- Next-level techniques: Hybrid models that fuse RL with deep learning, stochastic approximation, temporal difference learning, and even large language models.
- Real-world impact:
- Portfolio and wealth management.
- Algorithmic trading.
- Options pricing and hedging.
- Risk management and beyond.
- State-of-the-art tools: Explore how transformers and graph neural networks handle complex financial datasets with unprecedented flexibility.
With a clear focus on practical application, this book blends rigorous theory with hands-on tools to help professionals and academics alike build smarter, more scalable financial systems.
Whether you’re optimising trading strategies, managing risk or researching future-proof AI tools, this book is your road map to applying RL in the real world of finance.
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Markov decision problems
Learning the optimal policy
Reinforcement learning revisited
Temporal difference learning revisited
Stochastic approximation in Markov decision processes
Large language models: reasoning and reinforcement learning
Deep reinforcement learning
Applications of artificial intelligence in finance
Pricing options with temporal difference backpropagation
Pricing American options
Daily price limits
Portfolio optimisation
Appendix