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The ongoing progress in quantum technologies has fueled a sustained exploration of their potential applications across various domains. One particularly promising field is quantitative finance, where a central challenge is the pricing of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-23 Fernando Alonso , Álvaro Leitao , Carlos Vázquez

Financial derivative pricing is a significant challenge in finance, involving the valuation of instruments like options based on underlying assets. While some cases have simple solutions, many require complex classical computational methods…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-05-15 Robert Scriba , Yuying Li , Jingbo B Wang

We introduce a new method to price American options based on Chebyshev interpolation. In each step of a dynamic programming time-stepping we approximate the value function with Chebyshev polynomials. The key advantage of this approach is…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2018-06-15 Kathrin Glau , Mirco Mahlstedt , Christian Pötz

Augmenting the input of algorithms with predictions is an algorithm design paradigm that suggests leveraging a (possibly erroneous) prediction to improve worst-case performance guarantees when the prediction is perfect (consistency), while…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Georgios Amanatidis , Evangelos Markakis , Christodoulos Santorinaios , Guido Schäfer , Panagiotis Tsamopoulos , Artem Tsikiridis

We focus on a permutation betting market under parimutuel call auction model where traders bet on the final ranking of n candidates. We present a Proportional Betting mechanism for this market. Our mechanism allows the traders to bet on any…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Shipra Agrawal , Zizhuo Wang , Yinyu Ye

We model the price of a stock via a Lang\'{e}vin equation with multi-dimensional fluctuations coupled in the price and in time. We generalize previous models in that we assume that the fluctuations conditioned on the time step are compound…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-12-10 Przemyslaw Repetowicz , Peter Richmond

We consider an offline learning problem for an agent who first estimates an unknown price impact kernel from a static dataset, and then designs strategies to liquidate a risky asset while creating transient price impact. We propose a novel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-07 Eyal Neuman , Wolfgang Stockinger , Yufei Zhang

This paper proposes a model order reduction method for a class of parametric dynamical systems. Using a temporal Fourier transform, we reformulate these systems into complex-valued elliptic equations in the frequency domain, containing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Yuming Ba , Liang Chen , Yaru Chen , Qiuqi Li

The aim of this article is to provide a systematic analysis of the conditions such that Fourier transform valuation formulas are valid in a general framework; i.e. when the option has an arbitrary payoff function and depends on the path of…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2010-07-08 Ernst Eberlein , Kathrin Glau , Antonis Papapantoleon

Reduced-order modeling is an efficient approach for solving parameterized discrete partial differential equations when the solution is needed at many parameter values. An offline step approximates the solution space and an online step…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-05 Howard C. Elman , Virginia Forstall

We present a new numerical method to price vanilla options quickly in time-changed Brownian motion models. The method is based on rational function approximations of the Black-Scholes formula. Detailed numerical results are given for a…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2012-04-02 Martijn Pistorius , Johannes Stolte

Fourier pricing methods such as the Carr-Madan formula or the COS method are classic tools for pricing European options for advanced models such as the Heston model. These methods require tuning parameters such as a damping factor, a…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-12-09 Gero Junike , Hauke Stier

The extension of classical online algorithms when provided with predictions is a new and active research area. In this paper, we extend the primal-dual method for online algorithms in order to incorporate predictions that advise the online…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Étienne Bamas , Andreas Maggiori , Ola Svensson

Pricing financial or real options with arbitrary payoffs in regime-switching models is an important problem in finance. Mathematically, it is to solve, under certain standard assumptions, a general form of optimal stopping problems in…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2018-09-11 Masahiko Egami , Rusudan Kevkhishvili

In this paper I develop a new computational method for pricing path dependent options. Using the path integral representation of the option price, I show that in general it is possible to perform analytically a partial averaging over the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Andrew Matacz

This paper aims to provide a practical example on the assessment and propagation of input uncertainty for option pricing when using tree-based methods. Input uncertainty is propagated into output uncertainty, reflecting that option prices…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Henryk Gzyl , German Molina , Enrique ter Horst

We investigate methods for pricing American options under the variance gamma model. The variance gamma process is a pure jump process which is constructed by replacing the calendar time by the gamma time in a Brownian motion with drift,…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2022-07-04 Weilong Fu , Ali Hirsa

In this paper we propose a model-based approach to the design of online optimization algorithms, with the goal of improving the tracking of the solution trajectory (trajectories) w.r.t. state-of-the-art methods. We focus first on quadratic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-24 Nicola Bastianello , Ruggero Carli , Sandro Zampieri

This paper examines the problem of pricing spread options under some models with jumps driven by Compound Poisson Processes and stochastic volatilities in the form of Cox-Ingersoll-Ross(CIR) processes. We derive the characteristic function…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2014-09-04 Pablo Olivares , Matthew Cane

We introduce a new approach to quantize the Euler scheme of an $\mathbb{R}^d$-valued diffusion process. This method is based on a Markovian and componentwise product quantization and allows us, from a numerical point of view, to speak of…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-03-27 Fiorin Lucio , Gilles Pagès , Abass Sagna