Summary of Prediction-enhanced Monte Carlo: a Machine Learning View on Control Variate, by Fengpei Li et al.
Prediction-Enhanced Monte Carlo: A Machine Learning View on Control Variate
by Fengpei Li, Haoxian Chen, Jiahe Lin, Arkin Gupta, Xiaowei Tan, Gang Xu, Yuriy Nevmyvaka, Agostino Capponi, Henry Lam
First submitted to arxiv on: 15 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
- Secondary: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Pricing of Securities (q-fin.PR)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper introduces Prediction-Enhanced Monte Carlo (PEMC), a framework that combines machine learning with Monte Carlo simulation to efficiently solve path-dependent problems. PEMC leverages pre-trained neural architectures as control variates, allowing for unbiased evaluations and eliminating the need for mean knowledge. This approach reduces computational costs by replacing expensive sample-path generation with efficient neural network evaluations. The authors demonstrate the efficacy of PEMC in two production-grade exotic option-pricing problems: swaption pricing in the HJM model and variance swap pricing in a stochastic local volatility model. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Imagine you want to predict the price of an investment, like an option or stock. Usually, this involves running complex calculations many times over. But what if we could make those calculations faster and more accurate using machine learning? That’s exactly what the authors do in this paper by creating a new way called Prediction-Enhanced Monte Carlo (PEMC). They use special neural networks to help with these predictions, making it much faster and more efficient than traditional methods. The authors show that PEMC works well for two specific types of investments: swaptions and variance swaps. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Machine learning » Neural network
