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We develop a quantum algorithm to price discretely monitored lookback options in the Black-Scholes framework using imaginary time evolution. By rewriting the pricing PDE as a Schrodinger-type equation, the problem becomes the imaginary time…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-04-02 Florence Paquette , Tania Belabbas , Emmanuel Hamel , Anne MacKay

Evaluating financial products with early-termination clauses, in particular those with path-dependent structures, is challenging. This paper focuses on Asian options, look-back options, and callable certificates. We will compare regression…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2025-07-21 Matteo Gambara , Giulia Livieri , Andrea Pallavicini

We introduce a stacking version of the Monte Carlo algorithm in the context of option pricing. Introduced recently for aeronautic computations, this simple technique, in the spirit of current machine learning ideas, learns control variates…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2019-03-27 Antoine Jacquier , Emma R. Malone , Mugad Oumgari

Variational quantum algorithms dominate contemporary gate-based quantum enhanced optimisation, eigenvalue estimation and machine learning. Here we establish the quantum computational universality of variational quantum computation by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-25 Jacob Biamonte

Classical Monte Carlo algorithms can theoretically be sped up on a quantum computer by employing amplitude estimation (AE). To realize this, an efficient implementation of state-dependent functions is crucial. We develop a straightforward…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 Mark-Oliver Wolf , Tom Ewen , Ivica Turkalj

Spread options are a fundamental class of derivative contract written on multiple assets, and are widely used in a range of financial markets. There is a long history of approximation methods for computing such products, but as yet there is…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2009-02-23 T. R. Hurd , Zhuowei Zhou

Some expansion methods have been proposed for approximately pricing options which has no exact closed formula. Benhamou et al. (2010) presents the smart expansion method that directly expands the expectation value of payoff function with…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2019-08-27 Kenji Nagami

This paper proposes a data-driven approach, by means of an Artificial Neural Network (ANN), to value financial options and to calculate implied volatilities with the aim of accelerating the corresponding numerical methods. With ANNs being…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-12-20 Shuaiqiang Liu , Cornelis W. Oosterlee , Sander M. Bohte

We develop the first quantum algorithm for the constrained portfolio optimization problem. The algorithm has running time $\widetilde{O} \left( n\sqrt{r} \frac{\zeta \kappa}{\delta^2} \log \left(1/\epsilon\right) \right)$, where $r$ is the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-23 Iordanis Kerenidis , Anupam Prakash , Dániel Szilágyi

For the Barndorff-Nielsen and Shephard model, we present approximate expressions of call option prices based on the decomposition formula developed by Arai (2021). Besides, some numerical experiments are also implemented to make sure how…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-04-23 Takuji Arai

Evaluating moving average options is a tough computational challenge for the energy and commodity market as the payoff of the option depends on the prices of a certain underlying observed on a moving window so, when a long window is…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-08-26 Ludovic Goudenège , Andrea Molent , Antonino Zanette

In this paper we study the pricing of exchange options under a dynamic described by stochastic correlation with random jumps. In particular, we consider a Ornstein-Uhlenbeck covariance model with Levy Background Noise Process driven by…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2017-11-29 Olivares Pablo , Villamor Enrique

Pricing of high-dimensional options is one of the most important problems in Mathematical Finance. The objective of this manuscript is to present an original self-contained treatment of the multidimensional pricing. During the past decades…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2015-10-27 Alexander Kushpel

We propose a multi-scale stochastic volatility model in which a fast mean-reverting factor of volatility is built on top of the Heston stochastic volatility model. A singular pertubative expansion is then used to obtain an approximation for…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2012-05-15 Jean-Pierre Fouque , Matthew Lorig

Despite the empirical success of the rough Bergomi (rBergomi) model in modeling volatility dynamics, its practical use remains challenging due to high computational complexity in both pricing and calibration arising from its non-Markovian…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-04-09 Changqing Teng , Guanglian Li

Finance is one of the promising field for industrial application of quantum computing. In particular, quantum algorithms for calculation of risk measures such as the value at risk and the conditional value at risk of a credit portfolio have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-28 Koichi Miyamoto

We consider the task of estimating the expectation value of an $n$-qubit tensor product observable $O_1\otimes O_2\otimes \cdots \otimes O_n$ in the output state of a shallow quantum circuit. This task is a cornerstone of variational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-11 Sergey Bravyi , David Gosset , Ramis Movassagh

This paper explores the application of Machine Learning techniques for pricing high-dimensional options within the framework of the Uncertain Volatility Model (UVM). The UVM is a robust framework that accounts for the inherent…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-06-06 Ludovic Goudenege , Andrea Molent , Antonino Zanette

Using spectral decomposition techniques and singular perturbation theory, we develop a systematic method to approximate the prices of a variety of options in a fast mean-reverting stochastic volatility setting. Four examples are provided in…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2012-05-15 Jean-Pierre Fouque , Sebastian Jaimungal , Matthew Lorig

This paper explores the use of the multinode Shepard method for the numerical solution of the two-dimensional Black-Scholes equation. The proposed approach integrates a spatial approximation via the multinode Shepard operator with a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Francesco Dell'Accio , Filomena Di Tommaso , Elisa Francomano , Clara Lorenzi