Generating Synthetic Bitcoin Transactions and Predicting Market Price Movement Via Inverse Reinforcement Learning and Agent-Based Modeling

Kamwoo Lee (), Sinan Ulkuatam (), Peter Beling () and William Scherer ()
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Peter Beling: https://engineering.virginia.edu/faculty/peter-beling
William Scherer: https://engineering.virginia.edu/faculty/william-t-scherer

Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 2018, vol. 21, issue 3, 5

Abstract: In this paper, we present a novel method to predict Bitcoin price movement utilizing inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) and agent-based modeling (ABM). Our approach consists of predicting the price through reproducing synthetic yet realistic behaviors of rational agents in a simulated market, instead of estimating relationships between the price and price-related factors. IRL provides a systematic way to find the behavioral rules of each agent from Blockchain data by framing the trading behavior estimation as a problem of recovering motivations from observed behavior and generating rules consistent with these motivations. Once the rules are recovered, an agent-based model creates hypothetical interactions between the recovered behavioral rules, discovering equilibrium prices as emergent features through matching the supply and demand of Bitcoin. One distinct aspect of our approach with ABM is that while conventional approaches manually design individual rules, our agents’ rules are channeled from IRL. Our experimental results show that the proposed method can predict short-term market price while outlining overall market trend.

Keywords: Cryptocurrency; Bitcoin; Inverse Reinforcement Learning; Agent-Based Modeling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-06-30
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