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- Title
Regime-Specific Quant Generative Adversarial Network: A Conditional Generative Adversarial Network for Regime-Specific Deepfakes of Financial Time Series.
- Authors
Huang, Andrew; Khushi, Matloob; Suleiman, Basem
- Abstract
Simulating financial time series (FTS) data consistent with non-stationary, empirical market behaviour is difficult, but it has valuable applications for financial risk management. A better risk estimation can improve returns on capital and capital efficiency in investment decision making. Challenges to modelling financial risk in market crisis environments are anomalous asset price behaviour and a lack of historical data to learn from. This paper proposes a novel semi-supervised approach for generating regime-specific 'deep fakes' of FTS data using generative adversarial networks (GANs). The proposed architecture, a regime-specific Quant GAN (RSQGAN), is a conditional GAN (cGAN) that generates class-conditional synthetic asset return data. Conditional class labels correspond to distinct market regimes that have been detected using a structural breakpoint algorithm to segment FTS into regime classes for simulation. Our RSQGAN approach accurately simulated univariate time series behaviour consistent with specific empirical regimes, outperforming equivalently configured unconditional GANs trained only on crisis regime data. To evaluate the RSQGAN performance for simulating asset return behaviour during crisis environments, we also propose four test metrics that are sensitive to path-dependent behaviour and are also actionable during a crisis environment. Our RSQGAN model design borrows from innovation in the image GAN domain by enabling a user-controlled hyperparameter for adjusting the fit of synthetic data fidelity to real-world data; however, this is at the cost of synthetic data variety. These model features suggest that RSQGAN could be a useful new tool for understanding risk and making investment decisions during a time of market crisis.
- Subjects
GENERATIVE adversarial networks; DEEPFAKES; DECISION making in investments; CONVOLUTIONAL neural networks; FINANCIAL risk management; TIME series analysis; PROBABILISTIC generative models
- Publication
Applied Sciences (2076-3417), 2023, Vol 13, Issue 19, p10639
- ISSN
2076-3417
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/app131910639