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Recent released features

Introducing : LLM-Based Autonomous Evolving Agents for Industrial Data-Driven R&D

We are excited to announce the release of RD-Agent📢, a powerful tool that supports automated factor mining and model optimization in quant investment R&D.

RD-Agent is now available on GitHub, and we welcome your star🌟!

To learn more, please visit our ♾️Demo page. Here, you will find demo videos in both English and Chinese to help you better understand the scenario and usage of RD-Agent.

We have prepared several demo videos for you: | Scenario | Demo video (English) | Demo video (中文) | | -- | ------ | ------ | | Quant Factor Mining | Link | Link | | Quant Factor Mining from reports | Link | Link | | Quant Model Optimization | Link | Link |

• 📃Paper: R&D-Agent-Quant: A Multi-Agent Framework for Data-Centric Factors and Model Joint Optimization
• 👾Code: https://github.com/microsoft/RD-Agent/

@misc{li2025rdagentquant,
    title={R\&D-Agent-Quant: A Multi-Agent Framework for Data-Centric Factors and Model Joint Optimization},
    author={Yuante Li and Xu Yang and Xiao Yang and Minrui Xu and Xisen Wang and Weiqing Liu and Jiang Bian},
    year={2025},
    eprint={2505.15155},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    primaryClass={cs.AI}
}

Features released before 2021 are not listed here.

Qlib is an open-source, AI-oriented quantitative investment platform that aims to realize the potential, empower research, and create value using AI technologies in quantitative investment, from exploring ideas to implementing productions. Qlib supports diverse machine learning modeling paradigms, including supervised learning, market dynamics modeling, and reinforcement learning.

An increasing number of SOTA Quant research works/papers in diverse paradigms are being released in Qlib to collaboratively solve key challenges in quantitative investment. For example, 1) using supervised learning to mine the market's complex non-linear patterns from rich and heterogeneous financial data, 2) modeling the dynamic nature of the financial market using adaptive concept drift technology, and 3) using reinforcement learning to model continuous investment decisions and assist investors in optimizing their trading strategies.

It contains the full ML pipeline of data processing, model training, back-testing; and covers the entire chain of quantitative investment: alpha seeking, risk modeling, portfolio optimization, and order execution. For more details, please refer to our paper "Qlib: An AI-oriented Quantitative Investment Platform".

Plans

New features under development(order by estimated release time). Your feedbacks about the features are very important.

Framework of Qlib

The high-level framework of Qlib can be found above(users can find the detailed framework of Qlib's design when getting into nitty gritty). The components are designed as loose-coupled modules, and each component could be used stand-alone.

Qlib provides a strong infrastructure to support Quant research. Data is always an important part. A strong learning framework is designed to support diverse learning paradigms (e.g. reinforcement learning, supervised learning) and patterns at different levels(e.g. market dynamic modeling). By modeling the market, trading strategies will generate trade decisions that will be executed. Multiple trading strategies and executors in different levels or granularities can be nested to be optimized and run together. At last, a comprehensive analysis will be provided and the model can be served online in a low cost.

Quick Start

This quick start guide tries to demonstrate 1. It's very easy to build a complete Quant research workflow and try your ideas with Qlib. 2. Though with public data and simple models, machine learning technologies work very well in practical Quant investment.

Here is a quick demo shows how to install Qlib, and run LightGBM with qrun. But, please make sure you have already prepared the data following the instruction.

Installation

This table demonstrates the supported Python version of Qlib: | | install with pip | install from source | plot | | ------------- |:---------------------:|:--------------------:|:------------------:| | Python 3.8 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_check_mark: | | Python 3.9 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_check_mark: | | Python 3.10 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_check_mar