We are excited to announce that CompatibL will sponsor and participate in the 21st Quantitative Finance Conference, organized by World Business Strategies (WBS), which will take place at the NH Palermo hotel, Palermo, Italy, from September 24 through September 26, 2025.
This year, CompatibL’s Executive Chairman and Head of Quant Research, Alexander Sokol, will contribute to the conference by leading a workshop, delivering two presentations, and moderating a panel discussion.
Workshop: Using Behavioral Psychology to Design Reliable AI Workflows
Wednesday, September 24, 13:45–17:15 CEST
The key to successful AI-based workflows is setting them up in a way that would help a human succeed at the same task. During this workshop, we will leverage this insight to build reliable AI-based workflows for several important use cases in trading and risk management.
Presentation 1: Autoencoder Manifolds and Mean Reversion Skew
Thursday, September 25, 09:45–10:30 CEST
We present an auto-encoding term-structure model that reduces the high dimensionality of yield curve data into a compact representation, while ensuring consistency with no-arbitrage conditions.
Presentation 2: The Psychology of LLMs
Thursday, September 25, 16:30–17:15 CEST
AI and humans perform surprisingly alike in classic behavioral psychology experiments. These experiments show that AI shares many of the cognitive biases of humans and is prone to human-like errors of logical reasoning and recall. We will examine the reasons for this surprising and perhaps even shocking finding.
Panel Discussion: Are We Ready for AI Colleagues?
Thursday, September 25, 17:15–18:00 CEST
In a recent study, experienced software engineers reported productivity gains from AI-enabled coding assistants while objective measures of their productivity fell. During the panel discussion we will discuss whether AI colleagues contribute to team productivity or whether the cost of instructing and supervising them will be greater than the benefit.
Other conference topics will include:
- Generative AI and Large Language Models
- Machine learning in trading
- Portfolio Optimization and AI
- Quant modeling techniques
- And more
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About WBS’s Quantitative Finance Conference
Every year, WBS’s Quantitative Finance Conference brings together professionals, researchers, academics, and leading experts in quantitative finance from all over the world to share and discuss their knowledge and experiences, new perspectives, and innovations in the industry.
