Machine Learning for Financial Engineering

This self-contained introduction to machine learning, designed from the start with engineers in mind, will equip students with everything they need to start applying machine learning principles and algorithms to real-world engineering problems. With a consistent emphasis on the connections between estimation, detection, information theory, and optimization, it includes: an accessible overview of the relationships between machine learning and signal processing, providing a solid foundation for further study; clear explanations of the differences between state-of-the-art techniques and more classical methods, equipping students with all the understanding they need to make informed technique choices; demonstration of the links between information-theoretical concepts and their practical engineering relevance; reproducible examples using Matlab, enabling hands-on student experimentation. Assuming only a basic understanding of probability and linear algebra, and accompanied by lecture slide

Data assimilation is a hugely important mathematical technique, relevant in fields as diverse as geophysics, data science, and neuroscience. This modern book provides an authoritative treatment of the field as it relates to several scientific disciplines, with a particular emphasis on recent developments from machine learning and its role in the optimisation of data assimilation. Underlying theory from statistical physics, such as path integrals and Monte Carlo methods, are developed in the text as a basis for data assimilation, and the author then explores examples from current multidisciplinary research such as the modelling of shallow water systems, ocean dynamics, and neuronal dynamics in the avian brain. The theory of data assimilation and machine learning is introduced in an accessible and unified manner, and the book is suitable for undergraduate and graduate students from science and engineering without specialized experience of statistical physics.

風險建模演算法 「Abdullah Karasan成功展現了在金融風險管理領域中使用機器學習的能力，這是對任何金融機構都攸關重要的功能。」 ―Yves J. Hilpisch博士 The Python Quants與The AI Machine創辦人及總裁 「如果您需要將統計和機器學習方法應用在金融風險分析的入門指南，那麼這是一個很好的起點。」 ―Graham L. Giller 《Adventures in Financial Data Science》作者 金融風險管理在人工智慧的幫助下發展迅速。透過這本實用指南，開發人員、程式設計師、工程師、金融分析師、風險分析師及定量和演算法分析師，將可以機器學習和深度學習模型進行金融風險評估。建立基於人工智慧的財務建模實務技能後，您將學習要如何運用機器學習模型來取代傳統的金融風險模型。 作者Abdullah Karasan幫助您探索金融風險建模背後的理論，再深入研究使用Python運用機器學習模型以對金融風險進行建模的實際方法。 有了這本書，您將可以： ‧回顧經典的時間序列應用並將其與深度學習模型進行比較 ‧使用支撐向量迴歸、神經網路和深度學習來探索波動率模型以衡量風險程度 ‧使用機器學習技術來改善市場風險模型(VaR和ES)，並包括了流動性維度 ‧使用分群和貝氏方法來進行信用風險分析 ‧使用高斯混合模型和關聯結構模型來捕捉流動性風險的不同面向 ‧使用機器學習模型來進行詐欺偵測 ‧使用機器學習模型來預測股價崩盤並識別其決定因素

Finance students and practitioners may ask: can machines learn everything? Could AI help me? Computing students or practitioners may ask: which of my skills could contribute to finance? Where in finance should I pay attention? This book aims to answer these questions. No prior knowledge is expected in AI or finance.Including original research, the book explains the impact of ignoring computation in classical economics; examines the relationship between computing and finance and points out potential misunderstandings between economists and computer scientists; and introduces Directional Change and explains how this can be used.To finance students and practitioners, this book will explain the promise of AI, as well as its limitations. It will cover knowledge representation, modelling, simulation and machine learning, explaining the principles of how they work. To computing students and practitioners, this book will introduce the financial applications in which AI has made an impact. This

這本書帶領讀者重新思考人工智慧的背後代價。不只是程式與演算法，AI的運作牽涉到龐大的自然資源、人力勞動與個人資料。作者凱特・克勞佛以十多年研究為基礎，揭示AI如何重新分配權力、加劇不平等，並對民主與環境造成深遠影響，是一部兼具深度與警示意義的作品。The hidden costs of artificial intelligence—from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality, and freedom“This study argues that [artificial intelligence] is neither artificial nor particularly intelligent. . . . A fascinating history of the data on which machine-learning systems are trained.”—New Yorker“A valuable corrective to much of the hype surrounding AI and a useful instruction manual for the future.”—John Thornhill, Financial Times“It’s a masterpiece, and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it.”—Karen Hao, senior editor, MIT Tech ReviewWhat happens when artificial intelligence saturates political life and depletes the planet? How is AI shaping our understanding of ourselves and our societies? Drawing on more than a decade of research, award‑winning scholar Kate Crawford reveals how AI is a technology of extraction: from the minerals drawn from

Providing a concise and accessible overview of the design, implementation and management of medical software, this textbook will equip students with a solid understanding of critical considerations for both standalone medical software (software as a medical device/SaMD) and software that is integrated into hardware devices. It includes: practical discussion of key regulatory documents and industry standards, and how these translate into concrete considerations for medical software design; detailed coverage of the medical software lifecycle process ; accessible introduction to quality and risk management systems in the context of medical software; succinct coverage of essential topics in data science, machine learning, statistics, cybersecurity, software engineering and healthcare bring readers up-to-speed; six cautionary real-world case studies illustrate the dangers of improper or careless software processes. Accompanied by online resources for instructors, this is the ideal introduct

What happens to risk as the economic horizon goes to zero and risk is seen as an exposure to a change in state that may occur instantaneously at any time? All activities that have been undertaken statically at a fixed finite horizon can now be reconsidered dynamically at a zero time horizon, with arrival rates at the core of the modeling. This book, aimed at practitioners and researchers in financial risk, delivers the theoretical framework and various applications of the newly established dynamic conic finance theory. The result is a nonlinear non-Gaussian valuation framework for risk management in finance. Risk-free assets disappear and low risk portfolios must pay for their risk reduction with negative expected returns. Hedges may be constructed to enhance value by exploiting risk interactions. Dynamic trading mechanisms are synthesized by machine learning algorithms. Optimal exposures are designed for option positioning simultaneously across all strikes and maturities.