A Generative Adversarial Network Approach to Calibration of Local Stochastic Volatility Models

Christa Cuchiero, Wahid Khosrawi and Josef Teichmann
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Christa Cuchiero: Department of Statistics and Operations Research, Data Science @ Uni Vienna, University of Vienna, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 1090 Wien, Austria
Wahid Khosrawi: ETH Zürich, D-MATH, Rämistrasse 101, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland
Josef Teichmann: ETH Zürich, D-MATH, Rämistrasse 101, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland

Risks, 2020, vol. 8, issue 4, 1-31

Abstract: We propose a fully data-driven approach to calibrate local stochastic volatility (LSV) models, circumventing in particular the ad hoc interpolation of the volatility surface. To achieve this, we parametrize the leverage function by a family of feed-forward neural networks and learn their parameters directly from the available market option prices. This should be seen in the context of neural SDEs and (causal) generative adversarial networks: we generate volatility surfaces by specific neural SDEs, whose quality is assessed by quantifying, possibly in an adversarial manner, distances to market prices. The minimization of the calibration functional relies strongly on a variance reduction technique based on hedging and deep hedging, which is interesting in its own right: it allows the calculation of model prices and model implied volatilities in an accurate way using only small sets of sample paths. For numerical illustration we implement a SABR-type LSV model and conduct a thorough statistical performance analysis on many samples of implied volatility smiles, showing the accuracy and stability of the method.

Keywords: LSV calibration; neural SDEs; generative adversarial networks; deep hedging; variance reduction; stochastic optimization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C G0 G1 G2 G3 K2 M2 M4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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