Agent-guided financial model achieves IC of 0.0843
AcanthisittaOk1699 · reddit · 2026-08-18
An agent research paper reports that an agent-guided process discovered a stronger model configuration, achieving a per-stock raw Information Coefficient (IC) of 0.0843 on a held-out test set (2021-2025), beating the best GRU baseline of 0.0613. The author notes the lack of live trading validation and discusses what evidence (untouched test period, reproduction, etc.) should weigh most for agent-generated results.
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