Neural stochastic Volterra equations: learning path-dependent dynamics

Abstract: Stochastic Volterra equations (SVEs) serve as mathematical models for the time evolutions of random systems with memory effects and irregular behaviour. We introduce neural stochastic Volterra equations as a physics-inspired architecture, generalizing the class of neural stochastic differential equations, and provide some theoretical foundation. Numerical experiments on various SVEs, like the disturbed pendulum equation, the generalized Ornstein--Uhlenbeck process and the rough Heston model are presented, comparing the performance of neural SVEs, neural SDEs and Deep Operator Networks (DeepONets).