AlphaSharpe: LLM-Driven Discovery of Robust Risk-Adjusted Metrics

8 Pages Posted: 25 Mar 2025 Last revised: 29 Jan 2025

Date Written: January 23, 2025

Abstract

Financial metrics like the Sharpe ratio are pivotal in evaluating investment performance by balancing risk and return. However, traditional metrics often struggle with robustness and generalization, particularly in dynamic and volatile market conditions. This paper introduces AlphaSharpe, a novel framework leveraging large language models (LLMs) to iteratively evolve and optimize financial metrics to discover enhanced risk-return metrics that outperform traditional approaches in robustness and correlation with future performance metrics by employing iterative crossover, mutation, and evaluation. Key contributions of this work include: (1) a novel use of LLMs to generate and refine financial metrics with implicit domain-specific knowledge, (2) a scoring mechanism to ensure that evolved metrics generalize effectively to unseen data, and (3) an empirical demonstration of 3x predictive power for future risk-returns, and 2x portfolio performance. Experimental results in a real-world dataset highlight the superiority of discovered metrics, making them highly relevant to portfolio managers and financial decision-makers. This framework not only addresses the limitations of existing metrics but also showcases the potential of LLMs in advancing financial analytics, paving the way for informed and robust investment strategies.

Suggested Citation

Yuksel, Kamer Ali, AlphaSharpe: LLM-Driven Discovery of Robust Risk-Adjusted Metrics (January 23, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5111141 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5111141

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