Wasserstein–Aitchison GAN for angular measures of multivariate extremes

Stéphane Lhaut (), Holger Rootzén () and Johan Segers ()
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Stéphane Lhaut: Université catholique de Louvain, LIDAM/ISBA, Belgium
Holger Rootzén: Chalmers University of Technology
Johan Segers: KU Leuven

No 2025010, LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA from Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA)

Abstract: Economically responsible mitigation of multivariate extreme risks – extreme rainfall in a large area, huge variations of many stock prices, widespread breakdowns in transportation systems – requires estimates of the probabilities that such risks will materialize in the future. This paper develops a new method, Wasserstein–Aitchison Generative Adversarial Networks (WA-GAN), which provides simulated values of future d-dimensional multivariate extreme events and which hence can be used to give estimates of such probabilities. The main hypothesis is that, after transforming the observations to the unit-Pareto scale, their distribution is regularly varying in the sense that the distributions of their radial and angular components (with respect to the L1-norm) converge and become asymptotically independent as the radius gets large. The method is a combination of standard extreme value analysis modeling of the tails of the marginal distributions with nonparametric GAN modeling of the angular distribution. For the latter, the angular values are transformed to Aitchison coordinates in a full (d−1)-dimensional linear space, and a Wasserstein GAN is trained on these coordinates and used to generate new values. A reverse transformation is then applied to these values and gives simulated values on the original data scale. The method shows good performance compared to other existing methods in the literature, both in terms of capturing the dependence structure of the extremes in the data, as well as in generating accurate new extremes of the data distribution. The comparison is performed on simulated multivariate extremes from a logistic model in dimensions up to 50 and on a 30-dimensional financial data set.

Keywords: Extreme value theory; Wasserstein distance; Generative adversarial networks; Multivariate analysis; Aitchison coordinates (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38
Date: 2025-05-01
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