Title
Explainable Ai (Xai) Models Applied To The Multi-Agent Environment Of Financial Markets
Abstract
Financial markets are a real life multi-agent system that is well known to be hard to explain and interpret. We consider a gradient boosting decision trees (GBDT) approach to predict large S&P 500 price drops from a set of 150 technical, fundamental and macroeconomic features. We report an improved accuracy of GBDT over other machine learning (ML) methods on the S&P 500 futures prices. We show that retaining fewer and carefully selected features provides improvements across all ML approaches. Shapley values have recently been introduced from game theory to the field of ML. They allow for a robust identification of the most important variables predicting stock market crises, and of a local explanation of the crisis probability at each date, through a consistent features attribution. We apply this methodology to analyse in detail the March 2020 financial meltdown, for which the model offered a timely out of sample prediction. This analysis unveils in particular the contrarian predictive role of the tech equity sector before and after the crash.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1007/978-3-030-82017-6_12
EXPLAINABLE AND TRANSPARENT AI AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS, EXTRAAMAS 2021
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Explainable AI, GBDT, Multi-agent environment, Financial markets meltdown
Conference
12688
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
0
0.34
References 
Authors
3
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jean-Jacques Ohana100.34
Steve Ohana200.34
Eric Benhamou301.35
David Saltiel401.35
Beatrice Guez500.34