Independent research
Model deployment policy & crypto microstructure · Emory University
Sole-authored Train Often, Deploy Selectively, a paper under submission to ACM ICAIF 2026 that separates retraining from deployment. Shadow Before Swap warm-refits a challenger off the serving path, advances it alongside a still-adapting incumbent on the same market stream, and promotes it only after delayed labels mature and a paired NLL advantage clears a fixed deadband. Across 48 UTC weeks of paired replay on Binance perpetual futures — two nonoverlapping episodes, three seeds, eight underlyings — it improves NLL by 0.1472% over calendar replacement and 0.0428% over continuous maintenance while cutting deployed-state turnover by 78.4%.
Train Often, Deploy Selectively


