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AlphaLedger: Portfolio-Grounded On-Policy Distillation for Regime-Aware Alpha Mining

Xiang Li·Zikai Wei·Yiyan Qi·Wanyun Zhou·Xiang Liu·Penglei Sun·Zhenheng Tang·Yongqi Zhang·Jian Guo·Xiaowen Chu
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Hosted LLMs enable automated alpha mining but incur recurring API costs and expose research context to external providers. Training a local generator requires supervision aligned with portfolio utility: a predictive factor may add little after redundancy and trading costs. This incremental value is assessed only after the factor program is complete, whereas generation proceeds sequentially. Deployment must also adapt to evolving stock-specific evidence and changes in factor effectiveness across market regimes. We propose AlphaLedger to address these challenges. Economic-context on-policy distillation (EC-OPD) conditions a frozen teacher on completed factors and their cost-adjusted marginal portfolio contributions, then distills its legal-action distributions along the student's own trajectories. The deployed generator requires neither teacher calls nor outcome inputs. EviPool constructs a dynamic stock universe from lagged multi-source evidence, while a regime-residual gate (RRG) reweights factors using matured, state-matched returns with shrinkage and bounded deviations from equal weighting. On Chinese A-shares, AlphaLedger achieves a 55.4\% annualized net return, a Sharpe ratio of 2.06, and a maximum drawdown of 10.8\%. In a common CSI500 universe, its annualized net return exceeds the strongest baseline by 43.6\% (31.6\% vs.\ 22.0\%), with a 13.5\% higher Sharpe ratio.

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Xiang Li, Zikai Wei, Yiyan Qi, Wanyun Zhou, Xiang Liu, Penglei Sun, Zhenheng Tang, Yongqi Zhang, Jian Guo, Xiaowen Chu. 2026-10-16. AlphaLedger: Portfolio-Grounded On-Policy Distillation for Regime-Aware Alpha Mining. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.23744

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