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title: Reinforcement Learning for Allocation
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identifier: RePEc:wsi:wschap:9781800615212_0003
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featured: 2024-09-18
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topic: Portfolio & Allocation
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# Reinforcement Learning for Allocation

Reinforcement learning, particularly deep reinforcement learning algorithms, can solve complex portfolio problems by determining investment shares in assets.

- Source: https://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/redir.pf?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldscientific.com%2Fdoi%2Fpdf%2F10.1142%2F9781800615212_0003%3Bh%3Drepec%3Awsi%3Awschap%3A9781800615212_0003
- Identifier: RePEc:wsi:wschap:9781800615212_0003
- Released: 2024-09-18
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 66 (2024-09-18): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2024-09-18/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Portfolio & Allocation

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