
Apaar Sadhwani of Google Brain opened the ICME AI Forum with a summary of their work to use simple neural networks (only 5 layers deep, 100K parameters) to outperform all of the logistic regression techniques standardly used to predict default and pre-payment risk in mortgage portfolios (Logit in red here).
The model benefited largely from ingesting local risk factors at the zip code level.
He trained the network with 70% of all mortgages over a 10 year period.
From the AI in Fintech Forum, hosted by the Stanford Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering (“We do big math”).
Relative importance of input variables:
A lot of cool ideas but for regulation:
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