Automatic Adjoint Differentiation (AAD) and back-propagation are key technologies in modern machine learning and finance. It is back-prop that enables deep neural networks to learn to identify faces on photographs in reasonable time. It is AAD that allows financial institutions to compute the risks of complex derivatives books in real time. The two technologies share common roots.

See the AAD book here:…

Deep Learning is picking momentum in Quantitative Finance, outside the obvious application to the prediction of asset prices (where to my knowledge it is not particularly effective) and spreading into the more serious application area of option pricing and risk management.

These two recent papers clearly demonstrate the benefits of DL as a pricing technology alternative to the classical FDM and Monte-Carlo in certain contexts:…

To access the document, go to https://github.com/asavine/CompFinance/blob/master/Intro2AADinMachineLearningAndFinance.pdf

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