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Semantic Trading: Agentic AI for Clustering and Relationship Discovery in Prediction Markets

Published: December 2, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2512.02436v1

By: Agostino Capponi, Alfio Gliozzo, Brian Zhu

BigTech Affiliations: IBM

Potential Business Impact:

AI finds hidden money-making patterns in betting.

Business Areas:
Predictive Analytics Artificial Intelligence, Data and Analytics, Software

Prediction markets allow users to trade on outcomes of real-world events, but are prone to fragmentation through overlapping questions, implicit equivalences, and hidden contradictions across markets. We present an agentic AI pipeline that autonomously (i) clusters markets into coherent topical groups using natural-language understanding over contract text and metadata, and (ii) identifies within-cluster market pairs whose resolved outcomes exhibit strong dependence, including same-outcome (correlated) and different-outcome (anti-correlated) relationships. Using a historical dataset of resolved markets on Polymarket, we evaluate the accuracy of the agent's relational predictions. We then translate discovered relationships into a simple trading strategy to quantify how these relationships map to actionable signals. Results show that agent-identified relationships achieve roughly 60-70% accuracy, and their induced trading strategies earn about 20% average returns over week-long horizons, highlighting the ability of agentic AI and large language models to uncover latent semantic structure in prediction markets.

Country of Origin
🇺🇸 United States

Repos / Data Links

Page Count
17 pages

Category
Computer Science:
Artificial Intelligence