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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”).

One response to “Google Brain vs. Mortgage Risk (from ICME AI in Fintech Forum)”

  1. To make money, mortgage lenders want customers that neither default nor pre-pay the load in a refinancing. The Neural Network (NN) was twice as good as logistic regression (LR) in avoiding the prepayment risk. Relative importance of input variables:A lot of cool ideas but for regulation:

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