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In-Network Market Prediction Using Machine Learning and Limit Order Books

This is an early systems-research result, not evidence of trading profitability. It is relevant because it frames ultra-low-latency market prediction as a joint model-and-network-design problem and supplies a concrete offload trade-off for electronic-market infrastructure.

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In-Network Market Prediction Using Machine Learning and Limit Order Books

This is an early systems-research result, not evidence of trading profitability. It is relevant because it frames ultra-low-latency market prediction as a joint model-and-network-design problem and supplies a concrete offload trade-off for electronic-market infrastructure.

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Why Large Language Models Fail at Tabular Prediction

For financial and enterprise analytics teams, the paper is a useful caution against treating a general LLM as a drop-in tabular model. The conclusion is a research finding from the authors' experimental setup, not a universal performance verdict for tool-augmented, fine-tuned, or purpose-built tabular systems.

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arXiv Aug 03, 2026

In-Network Market Prediction Using Machine Learning and Limit Order Books

The authors present LOBIN, a research system that constructs limit-order-book features and runs machine-learning inference on programmable network switches. In the reported evaluation, a hybrid switch/server deployment processed about 45% of traffic and 38% of potential transaction value in-switch while keeping the average prediction-error change near 3% versus the server-only benchmark.

  • LOBIN maps a trained market-prediction model to a programmable-switch data plane and builds limit-order-book state from market-data feeds.
  • In the paper's hybrid deployment evaluation, approximately 45% of traffic and 38% of potential transaction value were processed in the switch with an average prediction-error change of about 3% relative to server-only benchmarks.
Why it mattersThis is an early systems-research result, not evidence of trading profitability. It is relevant because it frames ultra-low-latency market prediction as a joint model-and-network-design problem and supplies a concrete offload trade-off for electronic-market infrastructure.
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arXiv Aug 03, 2026

Why Large Language Models Fail at Tabular Prediction

This preprint studies single-pass, prompt-only use of a frontier LLM for tabular prediction. Across controlled tests, the authors report that performance deterioration as feature dimensionality rises—not noisy data, CSV linearization, number tokenization, or number of test points—best explains the gap versus classical baselines; they explicitly leave the internal mechanism unresolved.

  • The authors evaluate a frontier LLM in a single-generation, prompt-only regime without tools, agent scaffolding, or fine-tuning for tabular prediction.
  • Their controlled experiments identify input dimensionality as the decisive tested factor behind the LLM's performance decline, while stating that the underlying internal mechanism remains open.
Why it mattersFor financial and enterprise analytics teams, the paper is a useful caution against treating a general LLM as a drop-in tabular model. The conclusion is a research finding from the authors' experimental setup, not a universal performance verdict for tool-augmented, fine-tuned, or purpose-built tabular systems.
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