DIVAI 2026

Special Session Organizers

Martin Drozda
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of STU in Bratislava
Slovakia
martin.drozda@stuba.sk

Michal Munk
Faculty of Natural Sciences and Informatics of CPU in Nitra
Slovakia
mmunk@ukf.sk

Objectives and Topics

The special session focuses on innovative uses of AI, machine learning (ML), deep learning, large language models (LLMs), statistical modeling, and modern data science techniques for algorithmic trading and computational intelligence in finance. Submissions addressing practical challenges, novel architectures, empirical evaluation, or theoretical insights are highly encouraged.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Deep learning models for multivariate financial time series
• Algorithmic trading and automated strategy design
• Novel architectures and frameworks for trading systems
• Explainable AI and interpretable models for financial decision-making
• Optimal execution algorithms and transaction cost modeling
• Reinforcement learning for order execution, placement, and strategy optimization
• ML- and RL-based portfolio optimization and asset allocation
• Regime detection, market state modeling, and adaptive strategies
• Evaluation, benchmarking, and analysis of financial datasets
• Synthetic data generation for finance, including GANs and diffusion models
• Denoising, preprocessing, and enhancement of financial time series
• Use of alternative data sources (e.g., NLP, news, social media) in trading and forecasting
• Backtesting reliability, robustness assessment, and bias correction methods
• Simulation environments, market simulators, and agent-based models for financial research
• Predictive modeling in the context of market discipline and financial performance
• Artificial and computational intelligence in banking and finance
• Complexity of mandatory information disclosures
• Education and training methodologies for AI and computational intelligence in finance

DIVAI 2026 – Important Dates

• Paper submission: January 30, 2026
• Notification of acceptance: February 27, 2026
• Camera-ready papers: March 20, 2026
• Registration & payment: April 15, 2026
• Conference date: May 4 – 6, 2026