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2-Cats: 2D Copula Approximating Transforms

Abstract

Copulas are powerful statistical tools for capturing dependencies across data dimensions. Applying Copulas involves estimating independent marginals, a straightforward task, followed by the much more challenging task of determining a single copulating function, CC, that links these marginals. For bivariate data, a copula takes the form of a two-increasing function C:(u,v)I2IC: (u,v)\in \mathbb{I}^2 \rightarrow \mathbb{I}, where I=[0,1]\mathbb{I} = [0, 1]. This paper proposes 2-Cats, a Neural Network (NN) model that learns two-dimensional Copulas without relying on specific Copula families (e.g., Archimedean). Furthermore, via both theoretical properties of the model and a Lagrangian training approach, we show that 2-Cats meets the desiderata of Copula properties. Moreover, inspired by the literature on Physics-Informed Neural Networks and Sobolev Training, we further extend our training strategy to learn not only the output of a Copula but also its derivatives. Our proposed method exhibits superior performance compared to the state-of-the-art across various datasets while respecting (provably for most and approximately for a single other) properties of C.

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