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Combines normalizing flows and quasi-Monte Carlo for improved numerical integration.
problem Improving the efficiency of numerical integration methods.
method Uses normalizing flows to approximate distributions and quasi-Monte Carlo for sampling.
result Demonstrates an estimator with significantly lower variance.
In this paper, we discuss the application of quasi-Monte Carlo methods to the Heston model. We base our algorithms on the Broadie-Kaya algorithm, an exact simulation scheme for the Heston model. As the joint transition densities are not available in closed-form, the Linear Transformation method due to Imai and Tan, a p…
We consider the problem of simulating loss probabilities and conditional excesses for linear asset portfolios under the t-copula model. Although in the literature on market risk management there are papers proposing efficient variance reduction methods for Monte Carlo simulation of portfolio market risk, there is no pa…
Comparative Study of Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Techniques for Enhanced Derivative Pricingq-fin.PR
This study compares MC and QMC methods for derivative pricing, showing QMC's superior convergence rates.
problem Improving derivative pricing accuracy and efficiency in high-dimensional settings.
method Compared Monte Carlo and quasi-Monte Carlo techniques, focusing on convergence rates and low-discrepancy sequences.
result Quasi-Monte Carlo methods achieve superior convergence rates and reduce root mean square error in derivative pricing.
Study compares MC and QMC methods for pricing and risk analysis in a hyperbolic local volatility model.
problem Derivative pricing and risk analysis in a hyperbolic local volatility model.
method Application of Monte Carlo and Quasi Monte Carlo methods for pricing and risk analysis.
result Quasi Monte Carlo methods show superior performance in high-dimensional integration for derivative pricing and risk analysis.
RQMC improves kernel-based learning by reducing deterministic error and offering computational advantages.
problem Improving kernel-based learning methods to reduce deterministic error and computational complexity.
method Randomized quasi-Monte Carlo (RQMC) methods applied to random feature approximations.
result RQMC methods improve deterministic approximation error bound from to , matching QMC methods.
A new method improves graph random features with quasi-Monte Carlo techniques.
problem Improving the accuracy of graph random features.
method Induces negative correlations in random walks using antithetic termination.
result Strong theoretical guarantees on lower-variance estimators of the Laplacian kernel.
RQMC improves optimization in variational Bayes problems.
problem Optimizing variational Bayes problems with noisy objective functions.
method Use of randomized quasi-Monte Carlo (RQMC) sampling with stochastic L-BFGS.
result RQMC can significantly speed up optimization and find better parameter values.
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 examples for illustration.
RQMC improves QMC by providing practical error bounds for financial applications.
problem Lack of practical error estimates in QMC methods.
method Combines Sobol LDS with randomized scrambling methods.
result RQMC outperforms standard QMC in convergence rates and provides error bounds.
Proposes QMC-based QSW for 3D SW distance.
problem Intractable SW distance in 3D.
method Quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) for QSW approximations.
result QMC-based QSW improves SW estimation.
Langevin Quasi-Monte Carlostat.CO
LMC improves sampling from complex distributions using quasi-random sequences.
problem Sampling from complex high-dimensional distributions with high accuracy.
method Using completely uniformly distributed (CUD) sequences in Langevin Monte Carlo (LMC) to generate Gaussian perturbations.
result LMC with low-discrepancy CUD sequences achieves smaller estimation error than standard LMC.
Quasi-Monte Carlo speeds up option Greeks calculation on GPUs.
problem Efficiently calculating option Greeks for risk management.
method Quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) combined with GPU acceleration for pathwise sensitivity calculation.
result Increased computational speed and efficiency in estimating option Greeks.
Many machine learning problems involve Monte Carlo gradient estimators. As a prominent example, we focus on Monte Carlo variational inference (MCVI) in this paper. The performance of MCVI crucially depends on the variance of its stochastic gradients. We propose variance reduction by means of Quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) sam…
New method reduces variance in estimating PL model expectations.
problem High variance in Monte Carlo estimates of PL model expectations.
method Combining Gumbel top-k trick with quasi-Monte Carlo sampling.
result More sample-efficient estimators of PL model expectations.
We consider the problem of improving the efficiency of randomized Fourier feature maps to accelerate training and testing speed of kernel methods on large datasets. These approximate feature maps arise as Monte Carlo approximations to integral representations of shift-invariant kernel functions (e.g., Gaussian kernel).…
Repelling Random Walksstat.ML
Repelling random walks improve graph-based sampling efficiency.
problem Efficient graph-based sampling and statistical estimation.
method Induces correlations between trajectories of an ensemble of walkers on a graph, maintaining unbiasedness.
result Improves concentration of statistical estimators on graphs.
Application of Quasi Monte Carlo and Global Sensitivity Analysis to Option Pricing and Greeksq-fin.CP
QMC and GSA improve option pricing and risk measures efficiency.
problem Efficiently pricing and hedging complex financial instruments.
method Application of QMC and GSA techniques for financial instrument pricing and hedging, comparing MC vs QMC and analyzing greeks computation.
result QMC outperforms MC in most cases, especially in high-dimensional simulations, leading to faster and more stable convergence.
This study compares MC and QMC methods for likelihood functions.
problem Approximating the normalizing constant of posterior distributions and marginal likelihoods.
method Characterizes the integration error of MC and QMC methods for likelihood functions.
result QMC outperforms MC under certain conditions, especially in high dimensions.
This paper introduces repulsive Monte Carlo methods for computing the sliced Wasserstein distance.
problem Computing the integral of a function on the unit sphere using Monte Carlo methods.
method The approach involves using determinantal point processes and repelled point processes to create quadratures for the sliced Wasserstein distance.
result The UnifOrtho estimator is recommended for the computation of the sliced Wasserstein distance in large dimensions.
Effective dimensionality reduction improves accuracy and reduces costs in estimating option Greeks.
problem Estimating Greeks for barrier and arithmetic average Asian options.
method Global sensitivity analysis, Chebyshev interpolation, conditional pathwise method, randomized Quasi Monte Carlo, Brownian bridge discretization, importance sampling.
result Reduced effective dimensionality enhances convergence rate and accuracy of randomized Quasi Monte Carlo integration.
Transport Quasi-Monte Carlomath.NA
Improves QMC for complex distributions using transport maps.
problem Challenges in applying QMC to general target distributions.
method Train a transport map to approximate target distributions, ensuring RQMC achieves superior error rates.
result Transport QMC achieves faster convergence rates than standard Monte Carlo under mild conditions.
We show that deliberately introducing a nested simulation stage can lead to significant variance reductions when comparing two stopping times by Monte Carlo. We derive the optimal number of nested simulations and prove that the algorithm is remarkably robust to misspecifications of this number. The method is applied to…
Pricing and Risk Management with High-Dimensional Quasi Monte Carlo and Global Sensitivity Analysisq-fin.RM
We review and apply Quasi Monte Carlo (QMC) and Global Sensitivity Analysis (GSA) techniques to pricing and risk management (greeks) of representative financial instruments of increasing complexity. We compare QMC vs standard Monte Carlo (MC) results in great detail, using high-dimensional Sobol' low discrepancy sequen…
New sampling methods improve Shapley value estimation for machine learning models.
problem Approximating Shapley values for non-trivial models is computationally challenging.
method Investigates new quadrature techniques and quasi-Monte Carlo methods for permutation sampling.
result Significant improvements in Shapley value estimates over existing methods.
Paper improves Monte Carlo sampling with new theoretical insights and methods.
problem Improving Monte Carlo sampling for variance reduction.
method Theoretical analysis of negatively dependent random variables and novel extensions using number theory and particle algorithms.
result Near-Orthogonal Monte Carlo (NOMC) consistently outperforms Orthogonal Monte Carlo (OMC) in various applications.
Generation of pseudorandom numbers from different probability distributions has been studied extensively in the Monte Carlo simulation literature. Two standard generation techniques are the acceptance-rejection and inverse transformation methods. An alternative approach to Monte Carlo simulation is the quasi-Monte Carl…
Recently, the Frank-Wolfe optimization algorithm was suggested as a procedure to obtain adaptive quadrature rules for integrals of functions in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) with a potentially faster rate of convergence than Monte Carlo integration (and "kernel herding" was shown to be a special case of thi…
This paper discusses the exact simulation of the stock price process underlying the 3/2 model. Using a result derived by Craddock and Lennox using Lie Symmetry Analysis, we adapt the Broadie-Kaya algorithm for the simulation of affine processes to the 3/2 model. We also discuss variance reduction techniques and find th…
Pathfinder uses quasi-Newton optimization for variational inference.
problem Approximating complex posterior distributions efficiently.
method Pathfinder combines quasi-Newton optimization with variational methods to approximate log densities.
result Pathfinder produces draws with lower KL divergence than ADVI and comparable to HMC, requiring fewer evaluations.
Corrects errors in ILA for Bayesian inference in LGMs.
problem Error in ILA for non-Gaussian likelihoods in LGMs.
method Importance sampling scheme to correct ILA errors.
result Corrected posterior converges to the true posterior with increased samples.
New method smooths integrands for efficient option pricing.
problem Improving numerical performance of option pricing methods.
method Combining hierarchical adaptive sparse grids, quasi-Monte Carlo, and numerical smoothing.
result Improved efficiency of ASGQ and QMC methods for high-dimensional problems.
We approximate differential entropy for efficient Bayesian experimental design.
problem Efficiently estimating expected information gain in large-scale inference problems.
method Approximate differential entropy using Monte Carlo or quasi-Monte Carlo surrogates.
result Our approach achieves comparable or better convergence rates than state-of-the-art methods.
The rough Bergomi (rBergomi) model, introduced recently in [5], is a promising rough volatility model in quantitative finance. It is a parsimonious model depending on only three parameters, and yet remarkably fits with empirical implied volatility surfaces. In the absence of analytical European option pricing methods f…
New criterion improves predictive evaluation in weighted inference scenarios.
problem Improving predictive evaluation in scenarios with different likelihoods for estimation and evaluation.
method Developed the posterior covariance information criterion (PCIC) to handle weighted likelihood inference.
result PCIC is asymptotically unbiased for quasi-Bayesian generalization error in weighted inference.
This thesis advances algorithms and software for QMC, GP, and sciML.
problem Efficient high-dimensional integration, interpolation, and PDE modeling.
method Developed new algorithms and software for QMC, GP, and sciML.
result Efficient and accurate methods for high-dimensional problems.
Recently, Stochastic Gradient Markov Chain Monte Carlo (SG-MCMC) methods have been proposed for scaling up Monte Carlo computations to large data problems. Whilst these approaches have proven useful in many applications, vanilla SG-MCMC might suffer from poor mixing rates when random variables exhibit strong couplings …
New analysis of annealing paths in sampling and estimation.
problem Sampling from complex distributions and estimating normalization constants.
method Extending known results on Bregman divergence to quasi-arithmetic means under monotonic embedding.
result Analogous result for quasi-arithmetic means, highlighting the interplay between means, parametric families, and divergence functionals.
We focus on the problem of estimating and quantifying uncertainties on the excursion set of a function under a limited evaluation budget. We adopt a Bayesian approach where the objective function is assumed to be a realization of a Gaussian random field. In this setting, the posterior distribution on the objective func…
New method estimates sparse canonical vectors efficiently.
problem Sparse canonical vectors estimation in CCA.
method Quasi-Bayesian estimation via Rayleigh quotient function.
result Achieves minimax rate with low computational cost.
YOASOVI improves stochastic VI for large models with fast, self-correcting sampling.
problem Efficiently performing stochastic Variational Inference on large Bayesian models.
method YOASOVI uses acceptance sampling to draw only one sample per iteration, improving convergence speed and accuracy.
result YOASOVI converges faster and more accurately than regular Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo methods.
High performance computing (HPC) is a very attractive and relatively new area of research, which gives promising results in many applications. In this paper HPC is used for pricing of American options. Although the American options are very significant in computational finance; their valuation is very challenging, espe…
Monte Carlo (MC) techniques are often used to estimate integrals of a multivariate function using randomly generated samples of the function. In light of the increasing interest in uncertainty quantification and robust design applications in aerospace engineering, the calculation of expected values of such functions (e…
We consider the problem of pricing basket options in a multivariate Black Scholes or Variance Gamma model. From a numerical point of view, pricing such options corresponds to moderate and high dimensional numerical integration problems with non-smooth integrands. Due to this lack of regularity, higher order numerical i…
LSH methods extend to function spaces for efficient similarity search.
problem Efficient similarity search in function spaces.
method Locality-sensitive hashing (LSH) extended to spaces using function approximation or Monte Carlo techniques.
result An LSH family for Wasserstein distance over continuous probability distributions.
Deep learning observables in computational fluid dynamicsphysics.comp-ph
Many large scale problems in computational fluid dynamics such as uncertainty quantification, Bayesian inversion, data assimilation and PDE constrained optimization are considered very challenging computationally as they require a large number of expensive (forward) numerical solutions of the corresponding PDEs. We pro…
Quasi-Monte Carlo with Domain Transformation for Efficient Fourier Pricing of Multi-Asset Optionsq-fin.CP
This work improves Fourier pricing for multi-asset options using RQMC with domain transformation.
problem Efficiently pricing multi-asset options in high dimensions with Fourier methods.
method Randomized quasi-Monte Carlo (RQMC) with domain transformation to handle singularities.
result RQMC with domain transformation provides accurate and scalable Fourier pricing for multi-asset options.