Euronext Clearing - Variational Autoencoders (VAE) for Reverse Stress Testing

Posted:
4/1/2026, 8:41:38 PM

Location(s):
Rome, Lazio, Italy ⋅ Lazio, Italy

Experience Level(s):
Junior ⋅ Mid Level ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
AI & Machine Learning ⋅ Software Engineering

Explore how deep generative models like VAEs can simulate extreme but plausible financial scenarios by compressing
and reconstructing complex market data such as interest rate curves and volatility surfaces.
• Contribute to a cutting-edge reverse stress testing framework, enabling risk teams to assess portfolio resilience
against hypothetical crises beyond historical events.
Competences: knowledge of Artificial Neural Networks (Multi Layer Perceptron) and their training (Backpropagation
algorithm); understanding of compression algorithms (e.g. Principal Component Analysis); python programming (useful
libraries: pandas, numpy, pytorch/tensorflow)

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