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Quantitative Finance · Glossary

What is Predict-then-optimise?

Definition 22.1 Machine Learning for Markets · Chapter 22 — From Prediction to Portfolio

Predict-then-optimise fits a forecast by a statistical loss (mean squared error, a likelihood) and passes it to an optimiser that chooses the portfolio; the two steps are fitted separately.

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