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Zacharia Issa

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1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2023
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021

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Artificial intelligence
1 paper
Kernel, tree and ensemble methods · 67% Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning · 33%

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TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Machine learning › Kernel, tree and ensemble methods
kernel methods
0.712023
Non-adversarial training of Neural SDEs with signature kernel scores · NeurIPS 2023
Machine learning › Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning › continuous-time model › stochastic differential equations
neural SDE
0.712023
Non-adversarial training of Neural SDEs with signature kernel scores · NeurIPS 2023
Machine learning › Kernel, tree and ensemble methods › kernel methods
signature kernel
0.712023
Non-adversarial training of Neural SDEs with signature kernel scores · NeurIPS 2023

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

signature kernel · 0.7neural SDE · 0.7adjoint-based backpropagation · 0.7
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2023 Non-adversarial training of Neural SDEs with signature kernel scores
abstract
Neural SDEs are continuous-time generative models for sequential data. State-of-the-art performance for irregular time series generation has been previously obtained by training these models adversarially as GANs. However, as typical for GAN architectures, training is notoriously unstable, often suffers from mode collapse, and requires specialised techniques such as weight clipping and gradient penalty to mitigate these issues. In this paper, we introduce a novel class of scoring rules on pathspace based on signature kernels and use them as objective for training Neural SDEs non-adversarially. By showing strict properness of such kernel scores and consistency of the corresponding estimators, we provide existence and uniqueness guarantees for the minimiser. With this formulation, evaluating the generator-discriminator pair amounts to solving a system of linear path-dependent PDEs which allows for memory-efficient adjoint-based backpropagation. Moreover, because the proposed kernel scores are well-defined for paths with values in infinite dimensional spaces of functions, our framework can be easily extended to generate spatiotemporal data. Our procedure significantly outperforms alternative ways of training Neural SDEs on a variety of tasks including the simulation of rough volatility models, the conditional probabilistic forecasts of real-world forex pairs where the conditioning variable is an observed past trajectory, and the mesh-free generation of limit order book dynamics.
Zacharia Issa, Blanka Horvath, Maud Lemercier, Cristopher Salvi
NeurIPS1