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There is a long history, as well as a recent explosion of interest, in statistical and generative modeling approaches based on score functions -- derivatives of the log-likelihood of a distribution. In seminal works, Hyv\"arinen proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Frederic Koehler , Thuy-Duong Vuong

Within a financial model with linear price impact, we study the problem of hedging a covered European option under gamma constraint. Using stochastic target and partial differential equation smoothing techniques, we prove that the…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-12-23 B Bouchard , G Loeper , Y Zou

This paper is concerned with a long standing optimal dividend payout problem subject to the so-called ratcheting constraint, that is, the dividend payout rate shall be non-decreasing over time and is thus self-path-dependent. The surplus…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-07-08 Chonghu Guan , Zuo Quan Xu

In this paper we derive tractable formulae for price sensitivities of two-dimensional spread options using Malliavin calculus. In particular, we consider spread options with asset dynamics driven by geometric Brownian motion and stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-10 Farai Julius Mhlanga , Shadrack Makwena Kgomo

We consider the computation of model-free bounds for multi-asset options in a setting that combines dependence uncertainty with additional information on the dependence structure. More specifically, we consider the setting where the…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2024-04-04 Evangelia Dragazi , Shuaiqiang Liu , Antonis Papapantoleon

Forecasting the volatility of financial assets is essential for various financial applications. This paper addresses the challenging task of forecasting the volatility of financial assets with limited historical data, such as new issues or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Andreas Teller , Uta Pigorsch , Christian Pigorsch

This paper considers the optimal dividend payment problem in piecewise-deterministic compound Poisson risk models. The objective is to maximize the expected discounted dividend payout up to the time of ruin. We provide a comparative study…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-02 Runhuan Feng , Hans Volkmer , Shuaiqi Zhang , Chao Zhu

\begin{abstract} The aim of this paper is to study the spanning power of options in a static financial market that allows non-integrable assets. Our findings extend and unify the results in [8,9,18] for $L_p$-models. We also apply the…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2016-10-03 Niushan Gao , Foivos Xanthos

We develop an unsupervised deep learning method to solve the barrier options under the Bergomi model. The neural networks serve as the approximate option surfaces and are trained to satisfy the PDE as well as the boundary conditions. Two…

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

This article combines various methods of analysis to draw a comprehensive picture of penalty approximations to the value, hedge ratio, and optimal exercise strategy of American options. While convergence of the penalised solution for…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2013-05-21 Sam Howison , Christoph Reisinger , Jan Hendrik Witte

Under the assumption of no-arbitrage, the pricing of American and Bermudan options can be casted into optimal stopping problems. We propose a new adaptive simulation based algorithm for the numerical solution of optimal stopping problems in…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Daniel Egloff , Michael Kohler , Nebojsa Todorovic

Smooth functions on graphs have wide applications in manifold and semi-supervised learning. In this work, we study a bandit problem where the payoffs of arms are smooth on a graph. This framework is suitable for solving online learning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-29 Tomáš Kocák , Rémi Munos , Branislav Kveton , Shipra Agrawal , Michal Valko

ReLU networks, while prevalent for visual data, have sharp transitions, sometimes relying on individual pixels for predictions, making vanilla gradient-based explanations noisy and difficult to interpret. Existing methods, such as GradCAM,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Amir Mehrpanah , Matteo Gamba , Kevin Smith , Hossein Azizpour

Recent developments in deep learning techniques have motivated intensive research in machine learning-aided stock trading strategies. However, since the financial market has a highly non-stationary nature hindering the application of…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2020-12-15 Kentaro Imajo , Kentaro Minami , Katsuya Ito , Kei Nakagawa

We consider a time-consistent mean-variance portfolio selection problem of an insurer and allow for the incorporation of basis (mortality) risk. The optimal solution is identified with a Nash subgame perfect equilibrium. We characterize an…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2019-08-16 Frank Bosserhoff , Mitja Stadje

We propose a flexible framework for hedging a contingent claim by holding static positions in vanilla European calls, puts, bonds, and forwards. A model-free expression is derived for the optimal static hedging strategy that minimizes the…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2015-11-20 Tim Leung , Matthew Lorig

In this paper we solve the dividend optimization problem for a corporation or a financial institution when the managers of the corporation are facing (regulatory) implementation delays. We consider several cash reservoir models for the firm…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-01-21 Erhan Bayraktar , Masahiko Egami

We consider an insurance company modelling its surplus process by a Brownian motion with drift. Our target is to maximise the expected exponential utility of discounted dividend payments, given that the dividend rates are bounded by some…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2019-01-23 Julia Eisenberg , Paul Krühner

We consider the bail-out optimal dividend problem under fixed transaction costs for a L\'evy risk model. Furthermore, we consider the version with a constraint expected net present value of injected capital. To characterize the solution to…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-09-19 Mauricio Junca , Harold Moreno-Franco , José Luis Pérez

We study the set of (stationary) feasible payoffs of overlapping generation repeated games that can be achieved by action sequences in which every generation of players plays the same sequence of action profiles. First, we completely…

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