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Automatic Adjoint Differentiation for special functions involving expectations

Computational Finance 2023-01-25 v2

Abstract

We explain how to compute gradients of functions of the form G=12i=1m(EyiCi)2G = \frac{1}{2} \sum_{i=1}^{m} (E y_i - C_i)^2, which often appear in the calibration of stochastic models, using Automatic Adjoint Differentiation and parallelization. We expand on the work of arXiv:1901.04200 and give faster and easier to implement approaches. We also provide an implementation of our methods and apply the technique to calibrate European options.

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@article{arxiv.2204.05204,
  title  = {Automatic Adjoint Differentiation for special functions involving expectations},
  author = {José Brito and Andrei Goloubentsev and Evgeny Goncharov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.05204},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

16 pages, 1 figure, v2: added acknowledgement

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