Deep Neural Operator Learning for Probabilistic Models

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Highly relevant to quantitative trading and derivatives pricing. The paper directly addresses American option pricing and optimal stopping boundary computation, which are fundamental problems in quantitative finance. The key advantage is that once trained, the neural operator can produce optimal stopping boundaries for new strike prices without retraining, enabling rapid pricing of option portfolios. The FBSDE framework and Feynman-Kac correspondence connect the approach to standard PDE-based pricing methods. However, the theoretical focus and network size bounds may limit immediate practical deployment in high-frequency trading contexts.

High implementation complexity due to: (1) the branch-trunk neural operator architecture requiring careful design of both components; (2) the need to discretize input functions on grids and encode them through the branch network; (3) the theoretical network size bounds suggest very large networks for high-dimensional problems; (4) the training requires generating ground-truth data via finite-difference PDE solvers; (5) the American option case requires handling variational inequalities and free boundaries; (6) proper implementation of the S2 norm and tail-probability conditions for validation.

The paper provides detailed theoretical proofs, explicit network architecture specifications, and a numerical example for basket American options with specific parameters (r=0.1, sigma=0.2, T=1, Nt=50, Nx=300, K_min=90, K_max=120). However, no code repository is provided, and the training procedure details (optimizer, learning rate, epochs) are not fully specified. The ground-truth data generation method (finite-difference discretization) is described.