Solving The Dynamic Volatility Fitting Problem: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach

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Autores principales: Gnabeyeu, Emmanuel, Karkar, Omar, Idboufous, Imad
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author Gnabeyeu, Emmanuel
Karkar, Omar
Idboufous, Imad
author_facet Gnabeyeu, Emmanuel
Karkar, Omar
Idboufous, Imad
contents The volatility fitting is one of the core problems in the equity derivatives business. Through a set of deterministic rules, the degrees of freedom in the implied volatility surface encoding (parametrization, density, diffusion) are defined. Whilst very effective, this approach widespread in the industry is not natively tailored to learn from shifts in market regimes and discover unsuspected optimal behaviors. In this paper, we change the classical paradigm and apply the latest advances in Deep Reinforcement Learning(DRL) to solve the fitting problem. In particular, we show that variants of Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (DDPG) and Soft Actor Critic (SAC) can achieve at least as good as standard fitting algorithms. Furthermore, we explain why the reinforcement learning framework is appropriate to handle complex objective functions and is natively adapted for online learning.
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spellingShingle Solving The Dynamic Volatility Fitting Problem: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach
Gnabeyeu, Emmanuel
Karkar, Omar
Idboufous, Imad
Computational Finance
Optimization and Control
Probability
Risk Management
Machine Learning
The volatility fitting is one of the core problems in the equity derivatives business. Through a set of deterministic rules, the degrees of freedom in the implied volatility surface encoding (parametrization, density, diffusion) are defined. Whilst very effective, this approach widespread in the industry is not natively tailored to learn from shifts in market regimes and discover unsuspected optimal behaviors. In this paper, we change the classical paradigm and apply the latest advances in Deep Reinforcement Learning(DRL) to solve the fitting problem. In particular, we show that variants of Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (DDPG) and Soft Actor Critic (SAC) can achieve at least as good as standard fitting algorithms. Furthermore, we explain why the reinforcement learning framework is appropriate to handle complex objective functions and is natively adapted for online learning.
title Solving The Dynamic Volatility Fitting Problem: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach
topic Computational Finance
Optimization and Control
Probability
Risk Management
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.11789