collaborators

5 papers

stat.ME2026

Calibrating simplified vine copulas with a noise contrastive estimation approach

Michael Denis Kraus, David Huk, Claudia Czado

Vine copulas provide a flexible framework for modeling complex multivariate dependence structures using only bivariate building blocks. Their practical success relies heavily on th…

stat.ML2026

Probabilistic Multivariate Time Series Forecasting with Diffusion Copulas

David Huk, Dongshan Wang, Miha Bresar

Accurately assessing financial risk requires capturing both individual asset volatility and the complex, asymmetric dependence structures that emerge during extreme market events.…

stat.ML2026

Diffusion and Flow-based Copulas: Forgetting and Remembering Dependencies

David Huk, Theodoros Damoulas

Copulas are a fundamental tool for modelling multivariate dependencies in data, forming the method of choice in diverse fields and applications. However, the adoption of existing m…

stat.ME2025

Probabilistic Rainfall Downscaling: Joint Generalized Neural Models with Censored Spatial Gaussian Copula

David Huk, Rilwan A. Adewoyin, Ritabrata Dutta

This work introduces a novel approach for generating conditional probabilistic rainfall forecasts with temporal and spatial dependence. A two-step procedure is employed. Firstly, m…

stat.ME2025

Your copula is a classifier in disguise: classification-based copula density estimation

David Huk, Mark Steel, Ritabrata Dutta

We propose reinterpreting copula density estimation as a discriminative task. Under this novel estimation scheme, we train a classifier to distinguish samples from the joint densit…