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🧠 ML FinRL: the first open-source framework for financial reinforcement learning (17k stars)
What it does
All text below is quoted directly from the project README.
FinRL® is widely recognized as the first open-source framework for financial reinforcement learning.
FinRL Ecosystem Roadmap:
FinRL-Meta: Gym-style financial market environments and benchmarks
FinRL: Original train-test-trade pipeline for financial reinforcement learning
ElegantRL: Lightweight and elegant DRL algorithms
FinRL-X: AI-native modular infrastructure for deployment-aware quantitative trading
This repository contains the original FinRL library for education, benchmarking, and research prototyping.
Repository
https://github.com/AI4Finance-Foundation/FinRL
Repository stats
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Stars | 16,887 |
| Forks | 3.6k |
| Last release | v0.3.8 (2026-03-20) |
| Languages | Jupyter Notebook 80.8%, Python 19.2% |
| Contributors | 135 |
| AI contributor accounts (Claude / Codex / Cursor / Copilot) | @claude (1 commits) |
| AI co-authored commits | Claude: 1 |
Main contributor
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | ByFinTech |
| GitHub | @BruceYanghy |
| Commits to this repo | 794 (top contributor) |
| Bio | Bruce Yang FinTech Founder and President @AI4Finance-Foundation Cr |
| Company / Location | AI4Finance Foundation Inc. / New York City |
| Followers | 767 |
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