Quantitative Research Society

QRS connects students and researchers across institutions to advance research in quantitative finance, machine learning, and related technical fields.

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Latest News

Research, releases and events from QRS.

Event

Global Market Making Games 2026 — Singapore Qualifier

An individual global market-making competition open to university students across Singapore.

Research

AlphaAllocator: new project page

Our news-reading allocation agent, 1st in NLPCC 2026 Shared Task 4 Track 1, now has its own project page: why we separate relevance, tone and allocation instead of asking one LLM for the trade, the NLPCC evidence and ablations, and ICAIF 2026, coming soon.

Guide

Post-training, explained: from SFT to GRPO

A long-read explainer on how language models are post-trained, from supervised fine-tuning and reward models to PPO, DPO and GRPO, with derivations and ten interactive figures.

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Current Work

A selection of active QRS research, projects, and competitions.

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