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The log-signature-based time series Wasserstein generative adversarial network
The log-signature-based time series Wasserstein generative adversarial network – Journal of Computational Finance Skip to main content End of drawer navigation content We introduce the Log-Signature Wasserstein GAN, combining log-signature features with a learnable 1-Lipschitz neural critic. Log-signatures provide a compact, numerically stable path representation, reducing target dimension while preserving the compression and invariance benefits…
