MarS：生成式基座模型时代的通用金融市场模拟引擎
编者按：生成式基座模型（Generative Foundation Model）已成功应用在多个领域，并塑造了全新的生产范式。将这一范式与行业特有数据结合，有望构建具有行业特色的生成式基座模型。对此，微软亚洲研究院从金融场景出发，设计了大市场模型 LMM 和金融市场模拟引擎 MarS，希望帮助金融研究人员为不同场景定制生成式模型，并且构建适用于金融市场所有下游任务的生成式基座模型应用新范式，为金融...
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