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arXiv CS.AI·May 26·5 min read
Market Regime Council for Dynamic Credit Assignment in Multi-Agent LLM Decision Systems
TL;DR
Multi-agent decision systems for portfolio management struggle with credit assignment among agents and transparency during market shifts. The Market Regime Council (MRC) was developed to dynamically compute Shapley credits for agent performance, adjusting for market conditions.
✦ Why It Matters
Engineers can leverage MRC for more effective credit assignment in multi-agent systems, enhancing decision-making in volatile markets.
Key Takeaways
- Implement Shapley credit assignment for fair agent evaluation.
- Use Bayesian adaptive mixtures to stabilize early performance.
- Adjust agent authority based on market regimes.
- Analyze coalition outputs for improved decision-making.
Full Summary
In portfolio management, multi-agent decision systems often face challenges in fairly assigning credit to individual agents, especially during market regime shifts, leading to inefficiencies and lack of transparency. The Market Regime Council (MRC) was created to address these issues by calculating Shapley credits, a method from cooperative game theory that fairly distributes payouts based on contribution.
MRC utilizes a combination of exponentially weighted performance histories, Bayesian adaptive mixtures for stability, and regime-dependent multipliers to adjust agent authority. Over a testing period of 1,037 trading days across 13 crypto assets, MRC achieved a Sharpe ratio of 1.51 and a cumulative return of 440.1%, outperforming other methods in terms of cumulative return, Sharpe ratio, and maximum drawdown.
The results indicate that the integration of Shapley-weighted outputs from coalitions significantly enhances performance compared to isolated stages. This work provides a framework for improving decision-making in dynamic environments, particularly in finance.