Quantum generative modeling for financial time series with temporal correlations

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Main Authors: Dechant, David, Schwander, Eliot, van Drooge, Lucas, Moussa, Charles, Garlaschelli, Diego, Dunjko, Vedran, Tura, Jordi
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author Dechant, David
Schwander, Eliot
van Drooge, Lucas
Moussa, Charles
Garlaschelli, Diego
Dunjko, Vedran
Tura, Jordi
author_facet Dechant, David
Schwander, Eliot
van Drooge, Lucas
Moussa, Charles
Garlaschelli, Diego
Dunjko, Vedran
Tura, Jordi
contents Quantum generative adversarial networks (QGANs) have been investigated as a method for generating synthetic data with the goal of augmenting training data sets for neural networks. This is especially relevant for financial time series, since we only ever observe one realization of the process, namely the historical evolution of the market, which is further limited by data availability and the age of the market. However, for classical generative adversarial networks it has been shown that generated data may (often) not exhibit desired properties (also called stylized facts), such as matching a certain distribution or showing specific temporal correlations. Here, we investigate whether quantum correlations in quantum inspired models of QGANs can help in the generation of financial time series. We train QGANs, composed of a quantum generator and a classical discriminator, and investigate two approaches for simulating the quantum generator: a full simulation of the quantum circuits, and an approximate simulation using tensor network methods. We tested how the choice of hyperparameters, such as the circuit depth and bond dimensions, influenced the quality of the generated time series. The QGAN that we trained generate synthetic financial time series that not only match the target distribution but also exhibit the desired temporal correlations, with the quality of each property depending on the hyperparameters and simulation method.
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spellingShingle Quantum generative modeling for financial time series with temporal correlations
Dechant, David
Schwander, Eliot
van Drooge, Lucas
Moussa, Charles
Garlaschelli, Diego
Dunjko, Vedran
Tura, Jordi
Quantum Physics
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
Computational Finance
Statistical Finance
Quantum generative adversarial networks (QGANs) have been investigated as a method for generating synthetic data with the goal of augmenting training data sets for neural networks. This is especially relevant for financial time series, since we only ever observe one realization of the process, namely the historical evolution of the market, which is further limited by data availability and the age of the market. However, for classical generative adversarial networks it has been shown that generated data may (often) not exhibit desired properties (also called stylized facts), such as matching a certain distribution or showing specific temporal correlations. Here, we investigate whether quantum correlations in quantum inspired models of QGANs can help in the generation of financial time series. We train QGANs, composed of a quantum generator and a classical discriminator, and investigate two approaches for simulating the quantum generator: a full simulation of the quantum circuits, and an approximate simulation using tensor network methods. We tested how the choice of hyperparameters, such as the circuit depth and bond dimensions, influenced the quality of the generated time series. The QGAN that we trained generate synthetic financial time series that not only match the target distribution but also exhibit the desired temporal correlations, with the quality of each property depending on the hyperparameters and simulation method.
title Quantum generative modeling for financial time series with temporal correlations
topic Quantum Physics
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
Computational Finance
Statistical Finance
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22035