arXiv Machine Learning By Nestor Barraza, Sergio Moro, Marcelo Ferreyra, Adolfo de la Pe\~na

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

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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