Papers, ranked by score

Ordered by a blend of empirical rigor (60%) and math complexity (40%).

Synthetic American Option Pricing via Jump-HMM-Driven Heston Implied Volatility

Generating realistic synthetic option prices requires implied volatility as an input, yet implied volatility is itself derived from observed option prices, creating a circular dependency that limits synthetic data for machine-learning and risk-analysis applications. We break this circularity with a

Holy Grail Math 7.5 Rigor 8 ·  May 1, 2026

Hybrid Hidden Markov Model for Modeling Equity Excess Growth Rate Dynamics: A Discrete-State Approach with Jump-Diffusion

Generating synthetic financial time series that preserve the statistical properties of real market data is essential for stress testing, risk model validation, and scenario design. Existing approaches struggle to simultaneously reproduce heavy-tailed distributions, negligible linear autocorrelation,

Holy Grail Math 5.5 Rigor 8.5 ·  March 10, 2026

Stochastic Attention via Langevin Dynamics on the Modern Hopfield Energy

Attention heads retrieve: given a query, they return a weighted average of stored values. We showed that this computation is one step of gradient descent on the modern Hopfield energy, and that Langevin sampling from the corresponding Boltzmann distribution yielded stochastic attention, a training-f

Holy Grail Math 6.5 Rigor 6 ·  March 6, 2026

Browse

All authors · Research topics · Papers with code · Download the scored dataset

📬 The Quant Space Weekly

One email a week: the most interesting quant finance papers, scored and summarized. No spam, unsubscribe anytime.