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This research applies reinforcement learning to optimize liquidity provision in decentralized finance, framing position rebalancing as a stochastic impulse control problem. The study demonstrates that learned policies can effectively manage inventory exposure and uncertainty to compress profit-and-loss distributions while avoiding catastrophic market outcomes. By benchmarking against existing AMM strategies, the work offers interpretable solutions for dynamic capital allocation in evolving market conditions.
Concentrated Liquidity Provision: a Reinforcement Learning Perspective
arXiv:2608.19389v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated market makers (AMMs) are a cornerstone of decentralised finance (DeFi). Constant product markets with concentrated liquidity, such as UniswapV3, are now a well-established design. In these markets, liquidity providers (LPs) face a sequential decision problem: they must decide when to rebalance their positions and which price ranges to allocate capital to as market conditions evolve. We formulate dynamic liquidity provision as a stochastic impulse control problem and use reinforcement learning (RL) to solve it, focusing on providing interpretable solutions. We show that learned policies exhibit rich state-dependent behaviour, allocating liquidity according to mispricing, rebalancing costs, uncertainty, inventory exposure, and heterogeneous risk preferences. These behaviours help compress the left tail of the Profit and Loss (PnL) distribution and avoid catastrophic outcomes under high uncertainty. Finally, we benchmark the RL agents against baseline and sophisticated agents from the AMM microstructure literature and analyse their performance.
Abstract:Automated market makers (AMMs) are a cornerstone of decentralised finance (DeFi). Constant product markets with concentrated liquidity, such as UniswapV3, are now a well-established design. In these markets, liquidity providers (LPs) face a sequential decision problem: they must decide when to rebalance their positions and which price ranges to allocate capital to as market conditions evolve. We formulate dynamic liquidity provision as a stochastic impulse control problem and use reinforcement learning (RL) to solve it, focusing on providing interpretable solutions. We show that learned policies exhibit rich state-dependent behaviour, allocating liquidity according to mispricing, rebalancing costs, uncertainty, inventory exposure, and heterogeneous risk preferences. These behaviours help compress the left tail of the Profit and Loss (PnL) distribution and avoid catastrophic outcomes under high uncertainty. Finally, we benchmark the RL agents against baseline and sophisticated agents from the AMM microstructure literature and analyse their performance.
Trading and Market Microstructure (q-fin.TR); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Computational Finance (q-fin.CP); Mathematical Finance (q-fin.MF)
arXiv:2608.19389 [q-fin.TR]
(or arXiv:2608.19389v1 [q-fin.TR] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.19389 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
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