Ekrem Duman | Searcharxiv

arXiv2023

Solving a new application of asymmetric TSP by modified migrating birds optimization algorithm

In this study, we first introduce a new application of the asymmetric traveling salesman problem (ATSP) which is about a small restaurant with one cook and a single stove. Once a meal has started cooking on the stove, the cook prepares the next meal on the table where the preparation time is dependent on the previous meal prepared. For the solution of this problem, besides several simple construction algorithms and a new version of the simulated annealing algorithm, we focus on enhanced versions of the recently introduced migrating birds optimization (MBO) algorithm. The original MBO algorithm might suffer from early convergence. Here we introduce several different ways of handling this problem. The extensive numerical experimentation conducted shows the superiority of the enhanced MBO over the original MBO (about 2.62 per cent) and over the simulated annealing algorithm (about 1.05 per cent).

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arXiv2022

Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach for Trading Automation in The Stock Market

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) algorithms can scale to previously intractable problems. The automation of profit generation in the stock market is possible using DRL, by combining the financial assets price "prediction" step and the "allocation" step of the portfolio in one unified process to produce fully autonomous systems capable of interacting with their environment to make optimal decisions through trial and error. This work represents a DRL model to generate profitable trades in the stock market, effectively overcoming the limitations of supervised learning approaches. We formulate the trading problem as a Partially Observed Markov Decision Process (POMDP) model, considering the constraints imposed by the stock market, such as liquidity and transaction costs. We then solve the formulated POMDP problem using the Twin Delayed Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (TD3) algorithm reporting a 2.68 Sharpe Ratio on unseen data set (test data). From the point of view of stock market forecasting and the intelligent decision-making mechanism, this paper demonstrates the superiority of DRL in financial markets over other types of machine learning and proves its credibility and advantages of strategic decision-making.

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