Publications

Technical papers, system whitepapers and reference documentation produced by the HFThot Research Lab. Every publication ships with the open-source code and notebooks needed to reproduce the figures.

May 2026 · System paper · 18 pages

Optimiz-rs: A System for Composable Numerical Primitives in Quantitative Finance

Mel Alvarez · HFThot Research Lab

A JAX-style system paper covering the seven primitive families exposed by Optimiz-rs v2: hidden Markov models, backward stochastic differential equations, McKean–Vlasov diffusions and mean-field games, path signatures, Hawkes processes, robust drift estimation and persistent topology. Includes complete derivations, theorems, pseudocode, honest single-threaded benchmarks, and an empirical validation of Sznitman's $\mathcal{O}(N^{-1/2})$ propagation-of-chaos rate.

Optimiz-rs Rust PyO3 BSDE McKean–Vlasov Signatures Hawkes TDA