arXiv Machine Learning

PaMIR: Open Benchmark of Public Credit-Default Datasets

PaMIR (Public Arrival-ordered Measurement for Inference in Risk) is an open benchmark for credit‑default prediction that addresses the challenge of scarce and late‑arriving labels. It aggregates 19 public datasets—totaling 1.24 million loans, firms, and card accounts from nine countries—into a single, leakage‑audited recipe that is never redistributed. Models are evaluated via repeated i.i.d. splits and a label‑delayed stream, with AUC reported by label budget, and a synthetic‑data harness tests training rows without exposing held‑out data.

arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 27

Tabular Foundation Models for Credit Risk Prediction: A Dedicated Review and Empirical Comparison

arXiv:2605.18147v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Predictive models are central to credit risk management, where the accuracy of default-probability and loss estimates affects the profitability of...

By Bart Baesens, Andreas Goethals, Stefan Lessmann, Simon De Vos, Cristi\'an Bravo, David Martens, Victor Medina-Olivares, Christophe Mues, Maria Oskarsd\'ottir, Seppe vanden Broucke, Tony Van Gestel, Tim Verdonck, Wouter Verbeke
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 28

PALM: Point-in-Time Adaptation for Financial Language Models

arXiv:2609.30316v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Language models used in financial backtests suffer from look-ahead bias, as a model trained on text published after the study period has already obse...

By Seunghan Lee, Jun Seo, Jaehoon Lee, Junhyeok Kang, Sangjun Han, Sungdong Yoo, Minjae Kim, Tae Yoon Lim, Dongwan Kang, Hwanil Choi, Soonyoung Lee, Wonbin Ahn
arXiv AI
Aug 5

ZK-SR117: A Chunked Zero-Knowledge Attestation Design for Aggregated Fair-Lending Metrics, with a Control Mapping toward Full SR 11-7 Coverage

arXiv:2608. 02664v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deploying ML models in regulated decision-making (credit underwriting, fraud detection, loan approval) requires demonstrating fairness and robustness to auditors without exposing model weights or customer data.

By Mohammad Nasir Uddin, Rahnuma Tabassum Orpita, Eklachur Rahman Bhuiyan, Asaduzzaman Anik
arXiv AI
Sep 16

A Decision-Support Audit Protocol for Supervision Drift in Proxy-Labeled Credit-Risk Prediction

The paper presents a locked, multi‑signal audit protocol designed to detect supervision drift in credit‑risk models that use proxy labels. It comprises five layers—transfer performance, an oracle‑gap probe, a calibration diagnostic, feature‑label stability, and a synthetic positive control—each with predefined thresholds and decision rules. Applied to a public LendingClub dataset, the protocol shows stable ranking, small oracle gaps, and identifies a prevalence and probability‑scale mismatch that recalibration largely mitigates, though its root cause remains unclear.

By Mehrdad Shoeibi, Muhammad Shabanpour, Waldemar Karwowski, Niloofar Yousefi
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 16

Foundation Models for Credit Risk Prediction: A Game Changer?

arXiv:2605. 18147v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Predictive models play a pivotal role in credit risk management, guiding critical decisions through accurate estimation of default probabilities and losses.

By Bart Baesens, Andreas Goethals, Stefan Lessmann, Simon De Vos, Cristi\'an Bravo, David Martens, Victor Medina-Olivares, Christophe Mues, Maria Oskarsd\'ottir, Seppe vanden Broucke, Tony Van Gestel, Tim Verdonck, Wouter Verbeke
arXiv AI
Oct 2

Predictive Credit: Measuring What Scientific Explanations Add to Experimental Forecasts

The study evaluates how scientific explanations influence experimental forecasts by comparing paired predictions that share the same intervention, forecaster, and outcome but differ in description, matched explanation, and donor context. Across 336 prospective states, 12 Tox21 endpoints, and 24 OpenML tasks, the predictive credit of explanations was largely inconclusive, with key metrics such as ROC AUC interval-score and point-equivalence rules unmet. While certain model variants (e.g., DeepSeek V4 Pro) reduced drift and improved some error metrics, overall matched point-accuracy gains and natural-explanation credit remained unconfirmed at the tested donor resolutions.

By Jingjie Ning, Xueqi Li, Yibo Kong, Dongting Li