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Re:Swap Curve Fitting by fny on Monday March 15, 2021 @07:35AM (#26464697)
For some additional background. This is a demo from the quant finance tensorflow package:

https://github.com/google/tf-quant-finance

Performance seems impressive relative to other FOSS. I use quantlib for mostly for hobby projects, would love to hear peoples thoughts if they've played with this.

Re:Swap Curve Fitting by astrange on Monday March 15, 2021 @06:49AM (#26464411)
I thought this was a Google paper since the domain shows up as "research.google.com", but it's actually a random Colab notebook.
Re:Swap Curve Fitting by bidirectional on Monday March 15, 2021 @08:56AM (#26465508)
It is a Google paper, further along in the URL one can see that it's under the offical Google github account.
Re:Swap Curve Fitting by twic on Monday March 15, 2021 @07:53AM (#26464861)
It's a demo of a Google library:

https://github.com/google/tf-quant-finance

Re:Swap Curve Fitting by andyxor on Monday March 15, 2021 @03:07AM (#26463253)
as a former rates quant, this is cute
Re:Swap Curve Fitting by ParanoidShroom on Monday March 15, 2021 @06:33AM (#26464309)
Why? Is this unusable naive or why would they build it? Excuse me for my lack of knowledge, far from my field.
Re:Swap Curve Fitting by twic on Monday March 15, 2021 @08:08AM (#26464986)
As far as i can tell, their swap curve construction doesn't support dual curve discounting [1], which makes this a toy.

There's no reason someone couldn't make this library industrial-strength, but is anyone going to? Is this supposed to be a supported product, or is this basically a tech demo to show what TensorFlow is capable of?

[1] https://www.crd.com/insights-valuing-interest-rate-swaps-the...

Re:Swap Curve Fitting by wrnr on Monday March 15, 2021 @02:42AM (#26463160)
What are you trying to say?
Re:Swap Curve Fitting by bidirectional on Monday March 15, 2021 @08:55AM (#26465496)
I find your commment much harder to understand than the post. Are you an experienced quant who finds the work trivial, or an undergrad with no idea what a swap curve is? It's impossible to tell and thus impossible to answer your question.
Re:Swap Curve Fitting by wrnr on Monday March 15, 2021 @01:00PM (#26468481)
Neither, this reads like a post to signal one's knowledge rather than one's intelligence. Do you want so see that finite state transducer I wrote in C?