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Adaptive Gradient Descent Methods for Computing Implied Volatility

Computational Finance 2023-03-24 v5

Abstract

In this paper, a new numerical method based on adaptive gradient descent optimizers is provided for computing the implied volatility from the Black-Scholes (B-S) option pricing model. It is shown that the new method is more accurate than the close form approximation. Compared with the Newton-Raphson method, the new method obtains a reliable rate of convergence and tends to be less sensitive to the beginning point.

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@article{arxiv.2108.07035,
  title  = {Adaptive Gradient Descent Methods for Computing Implied Volatility},
  author = {Yixiao Lu and Yihong Wang and Tinggan Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.07035},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

Our implement of Newton-Raphson iteration has defects. After correcting the code implement, we find Newton-Raphson won't be non-convergent. See https://github.com/cloudy-sfu/Newton-Raphson-Implied-Volatility for details

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