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jgrusewski 10f4bcc15b feat(alpha): decision-stride + cluster 9-fold CV workflow
Two complementary additions to validate the minute-horizon alpha
hypothesis at IBKR-realistic costs:

1. `alpha_baseline --decision-stride N`: emits a new action every N
   steps; between decisions force action=0 (wait) so an open position
   is held rather than re-decided per bar. Cuts per-bar trade counts
   ~stride× and removes the coin-flip overtrading. Local 2Q sweep
   showed stride=200 + scaled training (8K episodes × 25 envs × H=1200)
   flipped Sharpe at ¼-tick from -4.29 (per-bar, 3-fold mean) to +1.78,
   with std collapsing from ±8.8 to ±1.15. Break-even cost moved from
   <¼-tick to ~1-tick — for the first time positive at IBKR-realistic
   passive-execution frictions.

2. `alpha_train_stacker --max-rows N`: optional cap on bars consumed
   from the fxcache. Used during local 2Q smoke (--max-rows 4M against
   the 17.8M-row 9Q fxcache) to fit Mamba2 training on a 4 GB consumer
   GPU; on the cluster (--no-cap) it sees all 9Q.

3. New Argo workflow `alpha-cv`: standalone template that compiles
   alpha_train_stacker + alpha_baseline + alpha_fill_coeffs.json,
   trains the stacker on the 9Q fxcache, then runs 9 sequential
   walk-forward folds of alpha_baseline on disjoint 1.9M-bar windows
   (one per quarter). Launcher script `scripts/argo-alpha-cv.sh`
   mirrors argo-train.sh conventions.

The local 2Q test that motivated this commit is summarised inline in
the alpha-cv template comments; the verdict was "framing was the bug —
once decision cadence matches the multi-minute alpha horizon, the
strategy is positive at IBKR commission".

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-16 18:04:34 +02:00
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ml

10-model ML ensemble for the Foxhunt HFT system, built on Candle v0.9.1.

Models

  • DQN (Rainbow) — deep Q-network with prioritized replay, dueling heads, noisy nets
  • PPO — proximal policy optimization with GAE, LSTM policies, clip-higher
  • TFT — temporal fusion transformer for multi-horizon forecasting
  • Mamba2 — state space model for sequence prediction
  • Liquid Networks — biologically inspired networks for non-stationary data
  • TLOB — transformer-based limit order book analysis
  • KAN — Kolmogorov-Arnold networks
  • xLSTM — extended LSTM architecture
  • TGGN — temporal graph neural network
  • Diffusion — diffusion-based generative model

Key Modules

  • ensemble — model ensemble coordination and confidence aggregation
  • hyperopt — PSO-based hyperparameter optimization with per-model adapters
  • trainers — unified training loops (DQN, PPO, supervised)
  • inferenceInferenceAdapter trait for prediction
  • checkpoint — model checkpointing and restoration
  • evaluation — walk-forward evaluation pipeline

Usage

use ml::dqn::DQN;
use ml::ppo::PpoTrainer;