Machine learning

Deep Smoothing of the Implied Volatility Surface

We present a neural network (NN) approach to fit and predict implied volatility surfaces (IVSs). Atypically to standard NN applications, financial industry practitioners use such models equally to replicate market prices and to value other financial …

Distinguishing Cause from Effect Using Quantiles: Bivariate Quantile Causal Discovery

Causal inference using observational data is challenging, especially in the bivariate case. Through the minimum description length principle, we link the postulate of independence between the generating mechanisms of the cause and of the effect …

eecop

An R Package to Solve Estimating Equations with Copulas

Copulas as High-Dimensional Generative Models: Vine Copula Autoencoders

We introduce the vine copula autoencoder (VCAE), a flexible generative model for high-dimensional distributions built in a straightforward three-step procedure. First, an autoencoder (AE) compresses the data into a lower dimensional representation. …

Generative Models for Simulating Mobility Trajectories

Mobility datasets are fundamental for evaluating algorithms pertaining to geographic information systems and facilitating experimental reproducibility. But privacy implications restrict sharing such datasets, as even aggregated location-data is …