Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning - IDEAL 2022 - 23rd International Conference, IDEAL 2022, Manchester, UK, November 24-26, 2022, Proceedings
Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning - IDEAL 2022 - 23rd International Conference, IDEAL 2022, Manchester, UK, November 24-26, 2022, Proceedings
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智能数据工程和自动化学习 - IDEAL 2022 - 第 23 届国际会议,IDEAL 2022,英国曼彻斯特,2022 年 11 月 24-26 日,会议记录
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10.1007/978-3-031-21753-1_42
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2022
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Cooper J
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Cooper J
Intuitively, similar customers should have similar credit risk. Capturing this similarity is often attempted using Euclidean distances between customer features and predicting credit default via logistic regression. Here we explore the use of topological data analysis for describing this similarity. In particular, persistent homology algorithms provide summaries of point clouds which relate to their topology. This approach has been shown to be useful in many applications but to the best of our knowledge, applying topological data analysis to prediction of credit risk is novel. We develop a pipeline which is based on the topological analysis of neighbourhoods of customers, with the neighbourhoods determined by a geometric network construction. We find a modest signal using three data sets from theLending Club, and theJapan Credit Screeningdata set. TheCleveland oncologicaldata set is used to validate the pipeline. The results have high variance, but they indicate that including such topological features could improve credit risk prediction when used as additional explanatory variable in a logistic regression.