6. Signal and Noise - by Arpit Gupta - Arpitrage

AI in Portfolio Management and Trading

This is the sixth installment of my course summaries from teaching AI in Finance at NYU Stern (see lecture slides here and last week’s summary here). This session starts with a topic I’ve been obsessed with for years: is there anything distinguishing behind Jackson Pollock paintings, or are they pure noise? Number 1A, Jackson Pollock 1948 The latest research on this question concludes the answer is yes: there is enough of a personalized signature in Pollock paintings for a machine learning algorithm to distinguish them from forgeries 93% of the time. One particularly distinctive feature is…

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