Finance-Informed Operator Learning for Option Pricing with Quantum-Compatible Realizations

Abstract

Pricing European options under local volatility requires repeatedly solving a PDE whose coefficients change with recalibration, while practitioners need both prices and sensitivities across spot-time surfaces. Neural surrogates can amortize these solves, but near expiry the solution loses regularity, making curvature difficult to learn and allowing violations of no-arbitrage bounds. We propose a finance-informed Deep Operator Network (FI-DeepONet) that decomposes the pricing operator into an input-dependent Black-Scholes carrier and a learned correction. The carrier uses strike-line integrated variance, capturing the leading near-expiry curvature singularity, while a smooth monotone Financial Admissibility Layer enforces pointwise price bounds. We derive a short-maturity estimate and differentiated asymptotics for the exact correction, together with identities linking correction error to price, sensitivity, and PDE-residual errors. On in-distribution tests, FI-DeepONet reduces global relative price error by nearly an order of magnitude versus vanilla and physics-informed DeepONet baselines. On parameter-shift OOD tests within the same local-volatility family, generalization is moderate. On index-option data, the frozen model remains accurate without market-specific retraining, though it does not outperform the same-input analytic formula. We also give a quantum-compatible realization in which selected linear maps are exactly compiled or approximated by a restricted diagonal-orthogonal family before supervised adaptation.