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Quantum Machine Learning (QML) offers a new paradigm for addressing complex financial problems intractable for classical methods. This work specifically tackles the challenge of few-shot credit risk assessment, a critical issue in inclusive…

Qualitative numerical planning is classical planning extended with non-negative real variables that can be increased or decreased "qualitatively", i.e., by positive indeterminate amounts. While deterministic planning with numerical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Blai Bonet , Hector Geffner

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

One of the main practical applications of quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) methods is the valuation of financial derivatives. We aim to give a short introduction into option pricing and show how it is facilitated using QMC. We give some practical…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2017-07-18 Gunther Leobacher

Many questions in quantitative finance, uncertainty quantification, and other disciplines are answered by computing the population mean, $\mu := \mathbb{E}(Y)$, where instances of $Y:=f(\boldsymbol{X})$ may be generated by numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-07 Fred J. Hickernell , Nathan Kirk , Aleksei G. Sorokin

Quantile is an important measure in finance and quality assessment in service industry. In this paper, we model the temporal and cross-sectional interactive effect of the quantiles of large-dimensional time series by a latent quantile…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-03-07 He Yong , Kong Xin-Bing , Yu Long , Zhao Peng

A derivative is a financial security whose value is a function of underlying traded assets and market outcomes. Pricing a financial derivative involves setting up a market model, finding a martingale (``fair game") probability measure for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-20 Patrick Rebentrost , Alessandro Luongo , Samuel Bosch , Seth Lloyd

The objective of this work is the investigation of complexity, asymmetry, stochasticity and non-linearity of the financial and economic systems by using the tools of statistical mechanics and information theory. More precisely, this thesis…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-08-30 Rubina Zadourian

We present a cross-language C++/Python program for simulations of quantum mechanical systems with the use of Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods. We describe a system for which to apply QMC, the algorithms of variational Monte Carlo and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. K. Nilsen

This work has a methodological nature and is a set of lecture notes for undergraduate students. It is devoted to the study of the basic tools of quantum field theory on the example of the simplest cubic "toy" model. We introduce such…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-29 A. V. Ivanov , M. A. Russkikh

Quantitative research increasingly relies on unstructured financial content such as filings, earnings calls, and research notes, yet existing LLM and RAG pipelines struggle with point-in-time correctness, evidence attribution, and…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Haoxue Wang , Keli Wen , Yuante Li , Qiancheng Qu , Xiangxu Mu , Xinjie Shen , Jiaqi Gao , Chenyang Chang , Chuhan Xie , San Yu Cheung , Zhuoyuan Hu , Xinyu Wang , Sirui Bi , Bi'an Du

Practitioners wishing to experience the efficiency gains from using low discrepancy sequences need correct, robust, well-written software. This article, based on our MCQMC 2020 tutorial, describes some of the better quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC)…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Sou-Cheng T. Choi , Fred J. Hickernell , R. Jagadeeswaran , Michael J. McCourt , Aleksei G. Sorokin

Temporal data are ubiquitous in the financial services (FS) industry -- traditional data like economic indicators, operational data such as bank account transactions, and modern data sources like website clickstreams -- all of these occur…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2020-09-15 Jason Wittenbach , Brian d'Alessandro , C. Bayan Bruss

Software repositories are rich sources of qualitative artifacts, including source code comments, commit messages, issue descriptions, and documentation. These artifacts offer many interesting insights when analyzed through quantitative…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Christoph Treude

The aim of this paper is to present a set of Python-based tools to develop forecasts using time series data sets. The material is based on a four week course that the author has taught for seven years to students on operations research,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-24 Alain Zemkoho

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have the potential to transform financial analytics by integrating numerical and textual data. However, challenges such as insufficient context when fusing multimodal information and the…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-11-14 Hoyoung Lee , Youngsoo Choi , Yuhee Kwon

Computational methods both open the frontiers of economic analysis and serve as a bottleneck in what can be achieved. We are the first to study whether Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) algorithm can improve the runtime of economic applications and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-24 Vladimir Skavysh , Sofia Priazhkina , Diego Guala , Thomas R. Bromley

Quantitative aspects of computation are important and sometimes essential in characterising the behavior and determining the properties of systems. They are related to the use of physical quantities (storage space, time, bandwidth, etc.) as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-08-15 Luca Bortolussi , Herbert Wiklicky

Combinatorial optimization problems are pivotal across many fields. Among these, Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) problems, central to fields like portfolio optimization, network design, and computational biology, are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-07 Yuhan Huang , Siyuan Jin , Yichi Zhang , Ling Pan , Qiming Shao

This paper addresses the challenge of model uncertainty in quantitative finance, where decisions in portfolio allocation, derivative pricing, and risk management rely on estimating stochastic models from limited data. In practice, the…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-06-10 Hans Buehler , Blanka Horvath , Yannick Limmer , Thorsten Schmidt