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Deep empirical risk minimization in finance: Looking into the future

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  • Anders Max Reppen
  • Halil Mete Soner

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Many modern computational approaches to classical problems in quantitative finance are formulated as empirical loss minimization (ERM), allowing direct applications of classical results from statistical machine learning. These methods, designed to directly construct the optimal feedback representation of hedging or investment decisions, are analyzed in this framework demonstrating their effectiveness as well as their susceptibility to generalization error. Use of classical techniques shows that over‐training renders trained investment decisions to become anticipative, and proves overlearning for large hypothesis spaces. On the other hand, nonasymptotic estimates based on Rademacher complexity show the convergence for sufficiently large training sets. These results emphasize the importance of synthetic data generation and the appropriate calibration of complex models to market data. A numerically studied stylized example illustrates these possibilities, including the importance of problem dimension in the degree of overlearning, and the effectiveness of this approach.

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  • Anders Max Reppen & Halil Mete Soner, 2023. "Deep empirical risk minimization in finance: Looking into the future," Mathematical Finance, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 33(1), pages 116-145, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:mathfi:v:33:y:2023:i:1:p:116-145
    DOI: 10.1111/mafi.12365
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