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We treat implied volatility surface (IVS) reconstruction as a learning problem guided by two principles. First, we adopt a meta-learning view that trains across trading days to learn a procedure that maps sparse option quotes to a full IVS…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-10-30 Jirong Zhuang , Xuan Wu

Non-parametric inference for functional data over two-dimensional domains entails additional computational and statistical challenges, compared to the one-dimensional case. Separability of the covariance is commonly assumed to address these…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-03-19 Tomas Masak , Tomas Rubin , Victor Panaretos

Black-Scholes implied volatility is a quantile. The insight follows from the normalized option price being a probability on the variance scale, with the inverse Gaussian distribution providing the link. It enables analytically exact and…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-05-19 Wolfgang Schadner

This work investigates the use of smooth neural networks for modeling dynamic variations of implicit surfaces under the level set equation (LSE). For this, it extends the representation of neural implicit surfaces to the space-time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Tiago Novello , Vinicius da Silva , Guilherme Schardong , Luiz Schirmer , Helio Lopes , Luiz Velho

This paper studies the pricing problem in which the underlying asset follows a non-Markovian stochastic volatility model. Classical partial differential equation methods face significant challenges in this context, as the option prices…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-05-29 Jingtang Ma , Xianglin Wu , Wenyuan Li

In financial terms, an implied volatility surface can be described by its term structure, its skewness and its overall volatility level. We use a PCA variational auto-encoder model to perfectly represent these descriptors into a latent…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2023-06-09 Zheng Gong , Wojciech Frys , Renzo Tiranti , Carmine Ventre , John O'Hara , Yingbo Bai

The implied volatility is a crucial element of any financial toolbox, since it is used for quoting and the hedging of options as well as for model calibration. In contrast to the Black-Scholes formula its inverse, the implied volatility, is…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2017-10-06 Kathrin Glau , Paul Herold , Dilip B. Madan , Christian Pötz

Active soft bodies can affect their shape through an internal actuation mechanism that induces a deformation. Similar to recent work, this paper utilizes a differentiable, quasi-static, and physics-based simulation layer to optimize for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Lingchen Yang , Byungsoo Kim , Gaspard Zoss , Baran Gözcü , Markus Gross , Barbara Solenthaler

We consider the problem of pricing basket options in a multivariate Black Scholes or Variance Gamma model. From a numerical point of view, pricing such options corresponds to moderate and high dimensional numerical integration problems with…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2017-02-27 Christian Bayer , Markus Siebenmorgen , Raul Tempone

Graduated optimization is a global optimization technique that is used to minimize a multimodal nonconvex function by smoothing the objective function with noise and gradually refining the solution. This paper experimentally evaluates the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Naoki Sato , Hideaki Iiduka

The implied volatility surface (IVS) is a fundamental building block in computational finance. We provide a survey of methodologies for constructing such surfaces. We also discuss various topics which can influence the successful…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2011-07-12 Cristian Homescu

Accurately forecasting the long-term evolution of turbulence represents a grand challenge in scientific computing and is crucial for applications ranging from climate modeling to aerospace engineering. Existing deep learning methods,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Hao Wu , Yuan Gao , Fan Xu , Fan Zhang , Qingsong Wen , Kun Wang , Xiaomeng Huang , Xian Wu

The fairness of a deep neural network is strongly affected by dataset bias and spurious correlations, both of which are usually present in modern feature-rich and complex visual datasets. Due to the difficulty and variability of the task,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Rebecca S Stone , Nishant Ravikumar , Andrew J Bulpitt , David C Hogg

Predicting volatility is important for asset predicting, option pricing and hedging strategies because it cannot be directly observed in the financial market. The Black-Scholes option pricing model is one of the most widely used models by…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2023-12-01 Soohan Kim , Seok-Bae Yun , Hyeong-Ohk Bae , Muhyun Lee , Youngjoon Hong

In view of training increasingly complex learning architectures, we establish a nonsmooth implicit function theorem with an operational calculus. Our result applies to most practical problems (i.e., definable problems) provided that a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Jérôme Bolte , Tam Le , Edouard Pauwels , Antonio Silveti-Falls

Missing data is a common problem in finance and often requires methods to fill in the gaps, or in other words, imputation. In this work, we focused on the imputation of missing implied volatilities for FX options. Prior work has used…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-11-12 Achintya Gopal

In this paper, we show that the recent integration of statistical models with deep recurrent neural networks provides a new way of formulating volatility (the degree of variation of time series) models that have been widely used in time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Rui Luo , Weinan Zhang , Xiaojun Xu , Jun Wang

Representing visual signals by implicit representation (e.g., a coordinate based deep network) has prevailed among many vision tasks. This work explores a new intriguing direction: training a stylized implicit representation, using a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Zhiwen Fan , Yifan Jiang , Peihao Wang , Xinyu Gong , Dejia Xu , Zhangyang Wang

Randomized smoothing is a technique for providing provable robustness guarantees against adversarial attacks while making minimal assumptions about a classifier. This method relies on taking a majority vote of any base classifier over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Ambar Pal , Jeremias Sulam

In the design of engineered components, rigorous vibration testing is essential for performance validation and identification of resonant frequencies and amplitudes encountered during operation. Performing this evaluation numerically via…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-12 D. Bluedorn , A. Badawy , B. E. Saunders , D. Roettgen , A. Abdelkefi