KellyBoost: Growth-Optimal Portfolio Construction with Gradient-Boosted Trees

Jiayu Li

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Abstract: KellyBoost is a single multi-output XGBoost model whose softmax output is the portfolio: with y the vector of per-asset holding-period returns, the training loss is - log(1 + w y), the negative log growth rate, so the fitted model is the growth-optimal (Kelly) allocation conditioned on the features. The objective is exact rather than a surrogate: we derive the gradient, the analytic diagonal Hessian and the full Hessian in closed form, verify them by finite differences, and ship a dependency-free reference engine.

Date: 2026-08
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