arXiv Machine Learning

Mutual information and sensitivity analysis for feature selection in customer targeting: a comparative study

arXiv Machine Learning
1d ago

The Hidden Costs of 99% Accuracy: A Trustworthiness Audit of the Telco Customer Churn Benchmark

The paper audits the IBM Telco Customer Churn benchmark, revealing that common practices inflate performance metrics. It shows that pre‑split SMOTE boosts churn‑class F1 by 13.1 points, that isotonic regression is the best calibration method while temperature scaling fails on tree ensembles, and that the cost‑optimal decision threshold is 5–10 times lower than the F1‑optimal one, saving about $77,000 per 1,000 customers. The authors also test generalisation on Iranian Telecom and Bank churn datasets, and propose a four‑component reporting checklist with reproducible code.

By Soumyadeep Roy
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 17

Adaptive Protection for Evolutionary Feature Construction in Symbolic Regression with Application to Credit Classification

arXiv:2608. 14209v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evolutionary feature construction has shown strong promise in symbolic regression by automatically discovering informative transformations of input features that enhance a simple base learner.

By Hengzhe Zhang, Qi Chen, Bing Xue, Lean Yu, Wolfgang Banzhaf, Mengjie Zhang
arXiv AI
Aug 28

Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Customer Churn Prediction in Telecommunications: A Framework for CRM Integration

The paper presents a framework for integrating explainable AI into customer churn prediction for telecommunications. It benchmarks four classifiers—Logistic Regression, Random Forest, XGBoost, and LightGBM—on the IBM Telco Customer Churn dataset, finding comparable performance with Logistic Regression achieving the highest AUC-ROC and LightGBM the highest accuracy. Explanations are provided via SHAP and LIME at both global and instance levels, and a four‑layer CRM integration architecture is proposed to translate risk scores and attribution vectors into actionable retention strategies, projecting a 3.3–5.3 percentage point reduction in churn and $199K–$319K savings per campaign cycle.

By Sandeep Gaddamwar
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 28

An Empirical Study of Feature Selection Granularity

arXiv:2607. 24145v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Feature selection aims to identify the most informative and relevant features for a given dataset, either in terms of capturing the underlying data structure and distribution better, or with respect to the performance on a downstream task.

By Muhammad Rajabinasab, Arthur Zimek