Article with code, Wilmott Nov19

My paper “Computation graphs for AAD and Machine Learning part I: Introduction to computation graphs and automatic differentiation” was just published in Wilmott, the first in a series of articles with code dedicated to Computational Finance. It covers computation graphs, backpropagation, AAD and implementation in finance, taking inspiration in the recent achievements of the Superfly Analytics group of Danske Bank.

A. Savine, “Computation graphs for aad and machine learning part i: introduction to computation graphs and automatic differentiation,” Wilmott, vol. 2019, iss. 104, p. 36–61, 2019.

Deep Analytics

By Brian Huge and Antoine Savine

Deep learning derivatives pricing, and risk, with differential regularisation

See our slides here:

http://www.deep-analytics.org

Tech Talk Event @Bloomberg

Thrilled to introduce Machine Learning and Adjoint Differentiation in Finance (in 15 minutes!!) at the Bloomberg Tech Talk Event, held Wednesday, 27 November 2019
08:30 – 14:00 GMT at Bloomberg L.P. 3 Queen Victoria Street London, EC4N 4TQ

https://bbgevent.com/risk-tech-talks/2019ldn/agenda/

Bloomberg Tech Talks, 27th November 2019, London
download the slides here

Deep learning derivatives pricing

I made two simplistic TensorFlow (1.x) notebooks for the benefit of my students at Copenhagen University, to demonstrate how vanilla neural nets (deeply) learn pricing of European calls and high dimensional basket options, together with a comparison with conventional polynomial regression models (a la LSM) and a quick, simple introduction to the implementation of deep learning models in TensorFlow.

Notebook 1: European call in Black and Scholes

Notebook 2: Basket option in Bachelier

The notebooks run directly on Google colab, in the cloud and on GPU, no installation required.

The lecture slides and material are all found here: github.com/asavine/CompFinLecture

Some (much) more advanced considerations for efficiently learning prices of trading books, including “twin” neural nets who learn values and risks, and the super efficient differential regularization, are found here: deep-analytics.org

Recorded workshop from Kings College London: AAD, Backpropagation and Machine Learning in Finance

Back in March, I gave a series of lectures at Kings College London on automatic adjoint differentiation, backpropagation and machine learning, and how it all connects and applies to risk management of financial derivatives.

The lectures were recorded and made freely available online, either from Kings own page:

https://nms.kcl.ac.uk/probability/workshopPages.php?id=8

or, on YouTube:

It is my understanding that the audience at Kings found the talks useful, and I hope that they may be beneficial to a wider audience on the internet.