User profiles for Derek Snow

Derek Snow

Professor NYU
Verified email at nyu.edu
Cited by 92

Black-box model risk in finance

SN Cohen, D Snow, L Szpruch - 2023 - cambridge.org
Abstract Machine learning models are increasingly used in a wide variety of financial settings.
The difficulty of understanding the inner workings of these systems, combined with their …

Machine learning in asset management

D Snow - JFDS: https://jfds. pm-research. com/content/2/1/10, 2019 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper investigates various machine learning trading and portfolio optimisation models
and techniques. The notebooks to this paper are Python based. By last count there are about …

[PDF][PDF] Machine learning in asset management—Part 2: Portfolio construction—Weight optimization

D Snow - The Journal of Financial Data Science, 2020 - academia.edu
This is the second in a series of articles dealing with machine learning in asset management.
This article focuses on portfolio weighting using machine learning. Following from the …

Machine learning in asset management—Part 1: Portfolio construction—Trading strategies

D Snow - The Journal of Financial Data Science, 2020 - pmr-menu-pub.highwirestaging.com
This is the first in a series of articles dealing with machine learning in asset management.
Asset management can be broken into the following tasks: (1) portfolio construction, (2) risk …

MTSS-GAN: Multivariate time series simulation generative adversarial networks

D Snow - Available at SSRN 3616557, 2020 - papers.ssrn.com
MTSS-GAN is a new generative adversarial network (GAN) developed to simulate diverse
multivariate time series (MTS) data with finance applications in mind. The purpose of this …

DeltaPy: A Framework for Tabular Data Augmentation in Python

D Snow - Available at SSRN 3582219, 2020 - papers.ssrn.com
A range of data abstractions have come to the fore since the re-emergence of machine
learning. This includes procedures like feature engineering, extraction, transformation, and …

Financial event prediction using machine learning

D Snow - Available at SSRN 3481555, 2019 - papers.ssrn.com
This thesis focuses on the use of machine learning in financial event prediction. In the past,
finance academics had to be content with mostly linear models that could only ingest a small …

A surprising thing: The application of machine learning ensembles and signal theory to predict earnings surprises

D Snow - Available at SSRN 3420722, 2017 - papers.ssrn.com
Nonlinear classification models can predict future earnings surprises with a high accuracy
by using pricing and earnings input data. Surprises of 15% or more can be predicted with 71% …

AtsPy: Automated Time Series Forecasting in Python

D Snow - Available at SSRN 3580631, 2020 - papers.ssrn.com
This short report deals with the recent rise of programmatic time series methods. This decade
has witnessed the proliferation of commercial and open source time-series tooling, which …

DataGene: A Framework for Dataset Similarity

D Snow - Available at SSRN 3619626, 2020 - papers.ssrn.com
DataGene is developed to identify data set similarity between real and synthetic datasets as
well as train, test, and validation datasets. For many modelling and software development …