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Machine learning for option pricing: an empirical investigation of network architectures

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Field Value
Primary domain Volatility
Other domains
Methods Financial Ml
Facets
Authors Serena Della Corte, Laurens Van Mieghem, Antonis Papapantoleon, Jonas Papazoglou-Hennig
Published 2026-01-29
Source arXiv Quantitative Finance History
Identifiers arxiv:2307.07657
URL Open original source

Editorial synthesis

Why it matters

This preprint studies how architecture choice affects accuracy and training time in option-pricing tasks, informing model-family selection while leaving parameter-budget fairness and training stability unspecified. (abstract:S1, abstract:S2, abstract:S3, abstract:S4, abstract:S5, abstract:S6, abstract:S7)

Main author claims

  • The authors claim that much of the literature uses plain feedforward networks, and they investigate whether architecture choice affects accuracy and training time. (abstract:S1, abstract:S2, abstract:S3)
  • They claim generalized highway networks perform best under MSE and training-time criteria for Black-Scholes/Heston pricing within their budgets, while simplified DGM gives lowest error for transformed implied-volatility tasks. (abstract:S4, abstract:S5)

Data, method, or discussion scope

The scope includes architecture comparison claims, metrics, parameter budgets, and a mention of real-market-data experiments for implied-volatility, without explicit hyperparameters or significance metrics. (abstract:S1, abstract:S2, abstract:S3, abstract:S4, abstract:S5, abstract:S6, abstract:S7)

Main limitations

Best-performance claims depend on unspecified budget and task definitions, and no seeding/stability or cross-asset transfer procedures are reported. (abstract:S4, abstract:S6, abstract:S7, abstract:S3)

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