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In this paper, we combine the techniques of enlargement of filtrations and stochastic control theory to establish an extension of the verification theorem, where the coefficients of the stochastic controlled equation are adapted to the underlying filtration and the controls are adapted to a bigger filtration $\mathbf{G}$ than the one generated by the corresponding Brownian motion $B$. Using the forward integral defined by Russo and Vallois \cite{RV1993}, we show that there is a $\mathbf{G}$-adapted optimal control with respect to a certain cost functional if and only if the Brownian motion $B$ is a $\mathbf{G}$-semimartingale. The extended verification theorem allows us to study a financial market with an insider in order to take advantage of the extra information that the insider has from the beginning. Finally, we consider two examples throughout the extended verification theorem. These problems appear in financial markets with an insider., Comment: 16 pages, new version including funding information

In this note we consider stochastic differential equations driven by fractional Brownian motions (fBm) with Hurst parameter $H>1/3$. We prove that the corresponding modified Euler scheme and its Malliavin derivatives are integrable, uniformly with respect to the step size $n$. Then we use the integrability results to derive the convergence rate in law $n^{1-4H+\varepsilon} $ for the Euler scheme. The proof for integrability is based on a nontrivial generalization (to quadratic functionals of the fBm) of a now classical greedy sequence argument laid out by Cass, Litterer and Lyons. The proof of weak convergence applies Malliavin calculus and some upper-bound estimates for weighted random sums., Comment: This is a companion paper to arXiv:2305.10365. We apologize for the text overlap, due to some common preliminary notions

The Malliavin differentiability of a SDE plays a crucial role in the study of density smoothness and ergodicity among others. For Gaussian driven SDEs the differentiability property is now well established. In this paper, we consider the Malliavin differentiability for the Euler scheme of such SDEs. We will focus on SDEs driven by fractional Brownian motions (fBm), which is a very natural class of Gaussian processes. We derive a uniform (in the step size $n$) path-wise upper-bound estimate for the Euler scheme for stochastic differential equations driven by fBm with Hurst parameter $H>1/3$ and its Malliavin derivatives., Comment: There will be a companion paper to this contribution, establishing weak convergence results for the modified Euler scheme. We apologize in advance for the text overlaps

The use of Shap scores has become widespread in Explainable AI. However, their computation is in general intractable, in particular when done with a black-box classifier, such as neural network. Recent research has unveiled classes of open-box Boolean Circuit classifiers for which Shap can be computed efficiently. We show how to transform binary neural networks into those circuits for efficient Shap computation.We use logic-based knowledge compilation techniques. The performance gain is huge, as we show in the light of our experiments., Comment: Substantial revision of previous version with the same title. To appear in conference proceedings. It replaces the previously uploaded paper "Opening Up the Neural Network Classifier for Shap Score Computation", by the same authors

Using Malliavin Calculus techniques, we derive closed-form expressions for the at-the-money behaviour of the forward implied volatility, its skew and its curvature, in general Markovian stochastic volatility models with continuous paths., Comment: 18 pages

In this paper we study a stochastic differential equation driven by a fractional Brownian motion with a discontinuous coefficient. We also give an approximation to the solution of the equation. This is a first step to define a fractional version of the skew Brownian motion.

In this note we give several methods to construct nontrivial solutions to the equation $dy_{t}=\sigma(y_{t}) \, dx_{t}$, where $x$ is a $\gamma$-H\"older $R^{d}$-valued signal with $\gamma\in(1/2,1)$ and $\sigma$ is a function behaving like a power function $|\xi|^{\kappa}$, with $\kappa\in(0,1)$. In this situation, classical Young integration techniques allow to get existence and uniqueness results whenever $\gamma(\kappa+1)>1$, while we focus on cases where $\gamma(\kappa+1)\le 1$. Our analysis then relies on some extensions of Young's integral allowing to cover the situation at hand.

In this paper we study some stability criteria for some semilinear integral equations with a function as initial condition and with additive noise, which is a Young integral that could be a functional of fractional Brownian motion. Namely, we consider stability in the mean, asymptotic stability, stability, global stability and Mittag-Leffler stability. To do so, we use comparison results for fractional equations and an equation (in terms of Mittag-Leffler functions) whose family of solutions includes those of the underlying equation., Comment: 18 pages

We study the uniqueness in the path-by-path sense (i.e. $\omega$-by-$\omega$) of solutions to stochastic differential equations with additive noise and non-Lipschitz autonomous drift. The notion of path-by-path solution involves considering a collection of ordinary differential equations and is, in principle, weaker than that of a strong solution, since no adaptability condition is required. We use results and ideas from the classical theory of ode's, together with probabilistic tools like Girsanov's theorem, to establish the uniqueness property for some classes of noises, including Brownian motion, and some drift functions not necessarily bounded nor continuous., Comment: 18 pages

The purpose of this paper is to give an Osgood's criterion for solutions of semilinear stochastic differential equations of the form $X_{t}=\xi +\int_{0}^{t}b(s,X_{s})ds+\int_{0}^{t}\sigma (s)X_{s}dW_{s},\ t\geq 0$. Here, $b$ is a non-negative, non-decreasing by components and continuous random field and $\sigma $ is a predictable and continuous process. Also we present a generalization of the so-called Feller's test whenever $\sigma \equiv 1$., Comment: 21 pages

In this paper we use the It\^o's formula and comparison theorems to study the blow-up in finite time of stochastic differential equations driven by a Brownian motion. In particular, we obtain an extension of Osgood criterion, which can be applied to some nonautonomous stochastic differential equations with additive Wiener integral noise. In most cases we are able to provide with a method to figure out the distribution of the explosion time of the involved equation., Comment: 17 pages

In this paper a Malliavin calculus for L\'evy processes based on a family of true derivative operators is developed. The starting point is an extension to L\'evy processes of the pioneering paper by Carlen and Pardoux [8] for the Poisson process, and our approach includes also the classical Malliavin derivative for Gaussian processes. We obtain a sufficient condition for the absolute continuity of functionals of the L\'evy process. As an application, we analyze the absolute continuity of the law of the solution of some stochastic differential equations.

In this paper we study the existence of a unique solution for linear stochastic differential equations driven by a L\'evy process, where the initial condition and the coefficients are random and not necessarily adapted to the underlying filtration. Towards this end, we extend the method based on Girsanov transformation on Wiener space and developped by Buckdahn to the canonical L\'evy space.

Sub-fractional Brownian motion is a process analogous to fractional Brownian motion but without stationary increments. In \cite{GGL1} we proved a strong uniform approximation with a rate of convergence for fractional Brownian motion by means of transport processes. In this paper we prove a similar type of approximation for sub-fractional Brownian motion.

We study the existence of a unique solution to semilinear fractional backward doubly stochastic differential equation driven by a Brownian motion and a fractional Brownian motion with Hurst parameter less than 1/2. Here the stochastic integral with respect to the fractional Brownian motion is the extended divergence operator and the one with respect to Brownian motion is It\^o's backward integral. For this we use the technique developed by R.Buckdahn to analyze stochastic differential equations on the Wiener space, which is based on the Girsanov theorem and the Malliavin calculus, and we reduce the backward doubly stochastic differential equation to a backward stochastic differential equation driven by the Brownian motion. We also prove that the solution of semilinear fractional backward doubly stochastic differential equation defines the unique stochastic viscosity solution of a semilinear stochastic partial differential equation driven by a fractional Brownian motion.

In this paper we study the existence of a unique solution to a general class of Young delay differential equations driven by a H\"older continuous function with parameter greater that 1/2 via the Young integration setting. Then some estimates of the solution are obtained, which allow to show that the solution of a delay differential equation driven by a fractional Brownian motion (fBm) with Hurst parameter H>1/2 has a smooth density. To this purpose, we use Malliavin calculus based on the Frechet differentiability in the directions of the reproducing kernel Hilbert space associated with fBm.

In this paper, we use the Malliavin calculus techniques to obtain an anticipative version of the change of variable formula for L\'evy processes. Here the coefficients are in the domain of the anihilation (gradient) operator in the "future sense", which includes the family of all adapted and square-integrable processes. This domain was introduced on the Wiener space by Al\`os and Nualart., Comment: 26 pages

In this paper we introduce a stochastic integral with respect to the solution X of the fractional heat equation on [0,1], interpreted as a divergence operator. This allows to use the techniques of the Malliavin calculus in order to establish an It\^{o}-type formula for the process X., Comment: 23 p

In this paper we use the chaos decomposition approach to establish the existence of a unique continuous solution to linear fractional differential equations of the Skorohod type. Here the coefficients are deterministic, the inital condition is anticipating and the underlying fractional Brownian motion has Hurst parameter less than 1/2. We provide an explicit expression for the chaos decomposition of the solution in order to show our results.