Delay-risk models are usually judged by predictive accuracy. What matters in practice is narrower: with capacity to review only a few shipments, which ones should a manager check first?
arXiv:2609.13840v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: A contract-logistics spare-parts operator is paid on order-level service: an order counts only if every requested line is fulfilled, yet forecasters ar...
By Joo Ern Chin, Shih-Fen Cheng, Aldy Gunawan
arXiv:2607. 18530v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Supplier lead time forecasting is a central input to material requirements planning, inventory optimization, and supply chain risk management.
By Christopher Wang, Sebastien Ouellet, Behrouz Haji Soleimani, Ali Etemad
The paper introduces SHAP concentration as a pre‑deployment diagnostic for detecting when conformal prediction will fail under distribution shift, specifically in gradient‑boosted classifiers. Using a COVID‑19 supply‑chain case study, the authors show that higher feature‑importance concentration correlates with larger drops in coverage, while standard shift detectors cannot differentiate between catastrophic and robust outcomes. The diagnostic is validated on additional datasets, and a formal theorem links concentration to worsening conformity‑score bounds, though it does not capture global‑sensitivity failures in neural networks.
By Chorok Lee
arXiv:2608.27704v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: When machine learning classifiers are retrained, inputs correctly classified by the previous model version may be misclassified by the updated version,...
By Madhusudan Srinivasan, Namith Nishal Raphae
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:2512. 18390v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Organizations often have an incumbent predictive model in production when new data sources become available.
By Vassilis Digalakis Jr, Christophe P\'erignon, S\'ebastien Saurin, Flore Sentenac
arXiv:2607. 20655v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Lead ranking in Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems faces a persistent challenge: models achieving high offline accuracy often underperform in production.
By Chenyu Zhang
arXiv:2602. 06136v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Test-time adaptation (TTA) offers a compelling remedy for machine learning (ML) models that degrade under domain shifts, improving generalisation on-the-fly with only unlabelled samples.
By Sudarshan Sreeram, Young D. Kwon, Cecilia Mascolo
arXiv:2608. 14367v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The early detection of delayed cases in business processes is a critical capability for organizations.
By Keyvan Amiri Elyasi, Lukas Kirchdorfer, Heiner Stuckenschmidt
arXiv:2607. 07146v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Internal Waves Service screens the Sentinel-1 Wave-mode archive for internal solitary waves, routing detections to experts whose adjudication time is the resource the effort exists to conserve.
By Joao Pinelo, Joao Goncalves, Arun Shukla, Adriana Santos-Ferreira
The paper introduces a regime‑diagnosis framework for industrial time‑series forecasting, highlighting that canonical loss functions embed fixed statistical priors that are violated in real‑world demand regimes such as zero‑inflation, skewness, and high variability. It proposes the Regime‑wise Relative Bias Vector (RBV) as a metric‑agnostic diagnostic that decomposes bias into an intrinsic floor and an excess attributable to training. A large‑scale study across 13 loss objectives and 60,000+ series demonstrates that regime‑aware diagnosis distinguishes optimization‑from‑bias failures and that regime‑aware training can eliminate pooling‑induced bias that mere capacity scaling cannot.
By Pengyu Nie, Chenglang Xu, Yaoshi Chen, Chaogan Ren, Wei Hu, Chao Yang, Jiangong Zhang