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Differential privacy (DP), as a rigorous mathematical definition quantifying privacy leakage, has become a well-accepted standard for privacy protection. Combined with powerful machine learning techniques, differentially private machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Chengkun Wei , Minghu Zhao , Zhikun Zhang , Min Chen , Wenlong Meng , Bo Liu , Yuan Fan , Wenzhi Chen

In incomplete financial markets, pricing and hedging European options lack a unique no-arbitrage solution due to unhedgeable risks. This paper introduces a constrained deep learning approach to determine option prices and hedging strategies…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-11-27 Nicolas Baradel

We propose a new forward-backward stochastic differential equation solver for high-dimensional derivatives pricing problems by combining deep learning solver with least square regression technique widely used in the least square Monte Carlo…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2020-10-14 Jian Liang , Zhe Xu , Peter Li

The use of machine learning methods helps to improve decision making in different fields. In particular, the idea of bridging predictions (machine learning models) and prescriptions (optimization problems) is gaining attention within the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-22 Antonio Alcántara , Carlos Ruiz

We describe a variational approximation method for efficient inference in large-scale probabilistic models. Variational methods are deterministic procedures that provide approximations to marginal and conditional probabilities of interest.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-05-30 T. S. Jaakkola , M. I. Jordan

Differential privacy (DP) techniques can be applied to the federated learning model to protect data privacy against inference attacks to communication among the learning agents. The DP techniques, however, hinder achieving a greater…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Minseok Ryu , Kibaek Kim

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are often prone to learn the spurious correlations between target classes and bias attributes, like gender and race, inherent in a major portion of training data (bias-aligned samples), thus showing unfair…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Mei Wang , Weihong Deng , Jiani Hu , Sen Su

Differentiable environments have heralded new possibilities for learning control policies by offering rich differentiable information that facilitates gradient-based methods. In comparison to prevailing model-free reinforcement learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Xiaoyuan Zhang , Xinyan Cai , Bo Liu , Weidong Huang , Song-Chun Zhu , Siyuan Qi , Yaodong Yang

The next generation of force fields for molecular dynamics will be developed using a wealth of data. Training systematically with experimental data remains a challenge, however, especially for machine learning potentials. Differentiable…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-04-16 Joe G Greener

Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning (MAML) is one of the most successful meta-learning techniques for few-shot learning. It uses gradient descent to learn commonalities between various tasks, enabling the model to learn the meta-initialization of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Lin Ding , Peng Liu , Wenfeng Shen , Weijia Lu , Shengbo Chen

Training a diffusion model approximates a map from a data distribution $\rho$ to the optimal score function $s_t$ for that distribution. Can we differentiate this map? If we could, then we could predict how the score, and ultimately the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Christopher Scarvelis , Justin Solomon

The Predictive Normalized Maximum Likelihood (pNML) scheme has been recently suggested for universal learning in the individual setting, where both the training and test samples are individual data. The goal of universal learning is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-09 Koby Bibas , Yaniv Fogel , Meir Feder

Data preprocessing is a crucial step in the machine learning process that transforms raw data into a more usable format for downstream ML models. However, it can be costly and time-consuming, often requiring the expertise of domain experts.…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Peng Li , Zhiyi Chen , Xu Chu , Kexin Rong

A diversified risk-adjusted time-series momentum (TSMOM) portfolio can deliver substantial abnormal returns and offer some degree of tail risk protection during extreme market events. The performance of existing TSMOM strategies, however,…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2023-06-29 Joel Ong , Dorien Herremans

Machine Learning (ML) is increasingly used to construct surrogate models for physical simulations. We take advantage of the ability to generate data using numerical simulations programs to train ML models better and achieve accuracy gain…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-29 Paul Novello , Gaël Poëtte , David Lugato , Pietro Congedo

We propose machine learning methods for solving fully nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) with convex Hamiltonian. Our algorithms are conducted in two steps. First the PDE is rewritten in its dual stochastic control…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2022-05-23 William Lefebvre , Grégoire Loeper , Huyên Pham

Diffractive optical neural networks have shown promising advantages over electronic circuits for accelerating modern machine learning (ML) algorithms. However, it is challenging to achieve fully programmable all-optical implementation and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Ruiyang Chen , Yingjie Li , Minhan Lou , Jichao Fan , Yingheng Tang , Berardi Sensale-Rodriguez , Cunxi Yu , Weilu Gao

In the ever-changing and intricate landscape of financial markets, portfolio optimisation remains a formidable challenge for investors and asset managers. Conventional methods often struggle to capture the complex dynamics of market…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-09 Himanshu Choudhary , Arishi Orra , Manoj Thakur

The integration of Differential Privacy (DP) with diffusion models (DMs) presents a promising yet challenging frontier, particularly due to the substantial memorization capabilities of DMs that pose significant privacy risks. Differential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Yu-Lin Tsai , Yizhe Li , Zekai Chen , Po-Yu Chen , Chia-Mu Yu , Xuebin Ren , Francois Buet-Golfouse

In many reinforcement learning applications, the underlying environment reward and transition functions are explicitly known differentiable functions. This enables us to use recent research which applies machine learning tools to stochastic…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2022-04-08 Thibault Jaisson