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Regret-Optimized Portfolio Enhancement through Deep Reinforcement Learning and Future Looking Rewards

Karzanov, Daniil  
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Garzón, Rubén
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Terekhov, Mikhail  
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November 14, 2025
ICAIF '25: Proceedings of the 6th ACM International Conference on AI in Finance
6th ACM International Conference on AI in Finance (ICAIF 2025)

This paper introduces a novel agent-based approach for enhancing existing portfolio strategies using Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO). Rather than focusing solely on traditional portfolio construction, our approach aims to improve an already high-performing strategy through dynamic rebalancing driven by PPO and Oracle agents. Our target is to enhance the traditional 60/40 benchmark (60% stocks, 40% bonds) by employing the Regret-based Sharpe reward function. To address the impact of transaction fee frictions and prevent signal loss, we develop a transaction cost scheduler. We introduce a future-looking reward function and employ synthetic data training through a circular block bootstrap method to facilitate the learning of generalizable allocation strategies. We focus on two key evaluation measures: return and maximum drawdown. Our method not only enhances the performance of the existing portfolio strategy through strategic rebalancing but also demonstrates strong results compared to other RL baselines.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1145/3768292.3770340
Author(s)
Karzanov, Daniil  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Garzón, Rubén
Terekhov, Mikhail  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Gulcehre, Caglar  orcid-logo

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Raffinot, Thomas
Detyniecki, Marcin
Date Issued

2025-11-14

Publisher

ACM

Publisher place

New York, NY, USA

Published in
ICAIF '25: Proceedings of the 6th ACM International Conference on AI in Finance
ISBN of the book

979-8-4007-2220-2

Start page

890

End page

897

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

EPFL units
CLAIRE  
Event nameEvent acronymEvent placeEvent date
6th ACM International Conference on AI in Finance (ICAIF 2025)

ICAIF '25

Singapore Singapore

2025-11-15 - 2025-11-18

Available on Infoscience
November 17, 2025
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/255886
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