651 research outputs found
Weak solutions for forward--backward SDEs--a martingale problem approach
In this paper, we propose a new notion of Forward--Backward Martingale
Problem (FBMP), and study its relationship with the weak solution to the
forward--backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs). The FBMP extends
the idea of the well-known (forward) martingale problem of Stroock and
Varadhan, but it is structured specifically to fit the nature of an FBSDE. We
first prove a general sufficient condition for the existence of the solution to
the FBMP. In the Markovian case with uniformly continuous coefficients, we show
that the weak solution to the FBSDE (or equivalently, the solution to the FBMP)
does exist. Moreover, we prove that the uniqueness of the FBMP (whence the
uniqueness of the weak solution) is determined by the uniqueness of the
viscosity solution of the corresponding quasilinear PDE.Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/08-AOP0383 the Annals of
Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical
Statistics (http://www.imstat.org
Efficient Computation of Hedging Portfolios for Options with Discontinuous Payoffs
We consider the problem of computing hedging portfolios for options that may have discontinuous payoffs, in the framework of diffusion models in which the number of factors may be larger than the number of Brownian motions driving the model. Extending the work of FourniƩ et al. (1999), as well as Ma and Zhang (2000), using integration by parts of Malliavin calculus, we find two representations of the hedging portfolio in terms of expected values of random variables that do not involve differentiating the payoff function. Once this has been accomplished, the hedging portfolio can be computed by simple Monte Carlo. We find the theoretical bound for the error of the two methods. We also perform numerical experiments in order to compare these methods to two existing methods, and find that no method is clearly superior to others
Large Deviations for Non-Markovian Diffusions and a Path-Dependent Eikonal Equation
This paper provides a large deviation principle for Non-Markovian, Brownian
motion driven stochastic differential equations with random coefficients.
Similar to Gao and Liu \cite{GL}, this extends the corresponding results
collected in Freidlin and Wentzell \cite{FreidlinWentzell}. However, we use a
different line of argument, adapting the PDE method of Fleming \cite{Fleming}
and Evans and Ishii \cite{EvansIshii} to the path-dependent case, by using
backward stochastic differential techniques. Similar to the Markovian case, we
obtain a characterization of the action function as the unique bounded solution
of a path-dependent version of the Eikonal equation. Finally, we provide an
application to the short maturity asymptotics of the implied volatility surface
in financial mathematics
A Deep Embedding Model for Co-occurrence Learning
Co-occurrence Data is a common and important information source in many
areas, such as the word co-occurrence in the sentences, friends co-occurrence
in social networks and products co-occurrence in commercial transaction data,
etc, which contains rich correlation and clustering information about the
items. In this paper, we study co-occurrence data using a general energy-based
probabilistic model, and we analyze three different categories of energy-based
model, namely, the , and models, which are able to capture
different levels of dependency in the co-occurrence data. We also discuss how
several typical existing models are related to these three types of energy
models, including the Fully Visible Boltzmann Machine (FVBM) (), Matrix
Factorization (), Log-BiLinear (LBL) models (), and the Restricted
Boltzmann Machine (RBM) model (). Then, we propose a Deep Embedding Model
(DEM) (an model) from the energy model in a \emph{principled} manner.
Furthermore, motivated by the observation that the partition function in the
energy model is intractable and the fact that the major objective of modeling
the co-occurrence data is to predict using the conditional probability, we
apply the \emph{maximum pseudo-likelihood} method to learn DEM. In consequence,
the developed model and its learning method naturally avoid the above
difficulties and can be easily used to compute the conditional probability in
prediction. Interestingly, our method is equivalent to learning a special
structured deep neural network using back-propagation and a special sampling
strategy, which makes it scalable on large-scale datasets. Finally, in the
experiments, we show that the DEM can achieve comparable or better results than
state-of-the-art methods on datasets across several application domains
A note on a Mar\v{c}enko-Pastur type theorem for time series
In this note we develop an extension of the Mar\v{c}enko-Pastur theorem to
time series model with temporal correlations. The limiting spectral
distribution (LSD) of the sample covariance matrix is characterised by an
explicit equation for its Stieltjes transform depending on the spectral density
of the time series. A numerical algorithm is then given to compute the density
functions of these LSD's
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