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An Efficient Machine Learning Framework for Option Pricing via Fourier Transform

Computational Finance 2025-12-29 v2

Abstract

The increasing need for rapid recalibration of option pricing models in dynamic markets places stringent computational demands on data generation and valuation algorithms. In this work, we propose a hybrid algorithmic framework that integrates the smooth offset algorithm (SOA) with supervised machine learning models for the fast pricing of multiple path-independent options under exponential L\'evy dynamics. Building upon the SOA-generated dataset, we train neural networks, random forests, and gradient boosted decision trees to construct surrogate pricing operators. Extensive numerical experiments demonstrate that, once trained, these surrogates achieve order-of-magnitude acceleration over direct SOA evaluation. Importantly, the proposed framework overcomes key numerical limitations inherent to fast Fourier transform-based methods, including the consistency of input data and the instability in deep out-of-the-money option pricing.

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@article{arxiv.2512.16115,
  title  = {An Efficient Machine Learning Framework for Option Pricing via Fourier Transform},
  author = {Liying Zhang and Ying Gao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.16115},
  year   = {2025}
}
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