Summary of Time-causal Vae: Robust Financial Time Series Generator, by Beatrice Acciaio et al.
Time-Causal VAE: Robust Financial Time Series Generator
by Beatrice Acciaio, Stephan Eckstein, Songyan Hou
First submitted to arxiv on: 5 Nov 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Computational Finance (q-fin.CP)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper presents a novel approach to generating financial time series data using a time-causal variational autoencoder (TC-VAE). The TC-VAE incorporates a causality constraint on its encoder and decoder networks, ensuring that the generated data is causally connected to the real market data. This is achieved by proving that the TC-VAE loss provides an upper bound on the causal Wasserstein distance between market distributions and generated distributions. To further improve the model’s ability to capture the latent structure of financial markets, the authors integrate a RealNVP prior into the TC-VAE framework. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the generated data for downstream financial optimization tasks and its ability to reproduce stylized facts of real financial market data. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper creates a special kind of computer program that can generate fake financial data that looks like it comes from the real stock market. The program, called TC-VAE, makes sure that the fake data is connected to the real data in a way that makes sense, by using something called causality. This means that if you see a pattern in the fake data, it’s because there’s a similar pattern in the real data. The program also tries to capture the underlying patterns and rules of the financial market, so that the fake data is more realistic. The results show that this program can be used to make predictions about the future performance of investments, and that it can even reproduce some of the weird patterns that are found in real financial data. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Decoder » Encoder » Optimization » Time series » Variational autoencoder
