Feynman-Kac Derivatives Pricing on the Full Forward Curve

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Highly relevant for quantitative trading in fixed income and interest rate derivatives. The 300,000-4,500,000x speedup over Monte Carlo enables real-time repricing of large portfolios, instantaneous Greeks computation for hedging, and rapid scenario analysis. Particularly valuable for market-making in interest rate derivatives, risk management desks, and algorithmic trading strategies involving path-dependent instruments. The ability to price in microseconds regardless of dimension makes it suitable for high-frequency applications in fixed income.

Moderate-to-high complexity. Requires: (1) HJM model implementation with Musiela parameterization, (2) PCA-based volatility estimation with Chebyshev polynomial fitting, (3) Feynman-Kac PDE derivation for the specific derivative, (4) Neural network architecture with automatic differentiation for computing PDE residuals including Hessian-vector products, (5) Custom loss function combining PDE residual, boundary condition, and analytical anchoring terms, (6) Curriculum learning schedule with three regimes, (7) Directional derivative trick for efficient Hessian computation. However, the paper provides detailed equations and architecture specifications, and uses standard deep learning frameworks (JAX/PyTorch). Consumer-grade hardware suffices.

The paper provides detailed mathematical formulations, architecture specifications (3 layers, 500 neurons, SiLU activation), training hyperparameters (Adam optimizer, learning rates, batch sizes, curriculum schedule), data source (GSW Treasury data), and volatility estimation procedure (PCA with Chebyshev polynomial fitting). However, no code repository is provided, and some implementation details (exact random seeds, specific JAX/PyTorch version) are not specified. The hardware requirements (consumer-grade 8GB GPU) make reproduction feasible.