NVIDIA Teaches World About Deep Learning In Finance

High performance gaming and artificial intelligence computing giant NVIDIA launched its Deep Learning Institute (DLI) last year, and is now offering the first courses on applying this technology to the finance vertical. "There's not a lot of academic research that shows how to take these neural network techniques and adapt them to finance. It became clear to us that was sorely needed," Andy Steinbach, head of AI in financial services and senior director at NVIDIA, said. Newsweek is hosting an AI and Data Science in Capital Markets conference in NYC, Dec. 6-7. "We set out to develop labs that would show how to marry the basic building blocks like auto-encoders, recurrent neural networks, reinforcement learning, with very relevant finance problems like algorithmic trading, statistical arbitrage, optimising trade execution, and so we have done that."