A0328
Title: EV-GAN: Simulation of extreme events with ReLU neural networks
Authors: Michael Allouche - Ecole Polytechnique (France) [presenting]
Stephane Girard - Inria (France)
Emmanuel Gobet - Ecole Polytechnique (France)
Abstract: Feedforward neural networks based on Rectified linear units (ReLU) cannot efficiently approximate quantile functions which are not bounded, especially in the case of heavy-tailed distributions. We thus propose a new parametrization for the generator of a Generative adversarial network (GAN) adapted to this framework, based on extreme-value theory. We provide an analysis of the uniform error between the extreme quantile and its GAN approximation. It appears that the rate of convergence of the error is mainly driven by the second-order parameter of the data distribution. The above results are illustrated on simulated data and real financial data.
