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- Title
A Partially Interpretable Adaptive Softmax Regression for Credit Scoring.
- Authors
Munkhdalai, Lkhagvadorj; Ryu, Keun Ho; Namsrai, Oyun-Erdene; Theera-Umpon, Nipon; Divina, Federico
- Abstract
Credit scoring is a process of determining whether a borrower is successful or unsuccessful in repaying a loan using borrowers' qualitative and quantitative characteristics. In recent years, machine learning algorithms have become widely studied in the development of credit scoring models. Although efficiently classifying good and bad borrowers is a core objective of the credit scoring model, there is still a need for the model that can explain the relationship between input and output. In this work, we propose a novel partially interpretable adaptive softmax (PIA-Soft) regression model to achieve both state-of-the-art predictive performance and marginally interpretation between input and output. We augment softmax regression by neural networks to make it adaptive for each borrower. Our PIA-Soft model consists of two main components: linear (softmax regression) and non-linear (neural network). The linear part explains the fundamental relationship between input and output variables. The non-linear part serves to improve the prediction performance by identifying the non-linear relationship between features for each borrower. The experimental result on public benchmark datasets shows that our proposed model not only outperformed the machine learning baselines but also showed the explanations that logically related to the real-world.
- Subjects
CREDIT ratings; MACHINE learning; REGRESSION analysis
- Publication
Applied Sciences (2076-3417), 2021, Vol 11, Issue 7, p3227
- ISSN
2076-3417
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/app11073227