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most citedSocial Network Analytics for Churn Prediction in Telco: Model Building, Evaluation and Network Architecture

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cs.LG2020★ 1 cited

HydaLearn: Highly Dynamic Task Weighting for Multi-task Learning with Auxiliary Tasks

Sam Verboven, Muhammad Hafeez Chaudhary, Jeroen Berrevoets +1

Multi-task learning (MTL) can improve performance on a task by sharing representations with one or more related auxiliary-tasks. Usually, MTL-networks are trained on a composite lo…

cs.LG2020★ 1 cited

Misclassification cost-sensitive ensemble learning: A unifying framework

George Petrides, Wouter Verbeke

Over the years, a plethora of cost-sensitive methods have been proposed for learning on data when different types of misclassification errors incur different costs. Our contributio…

cs.LG2020★ 1 cited

The foundations of cost-sensitive causal classification

Wouter Verbeke, Diego Olaya, Jeroen Berrevoets +2

Classification is a well-studied machine learning task which concerns the assignment of instances to a set of outcomes. Classification models support the optimization of managerial…

stat.AP2020

Instance-Dependent Cost-Sensitive Learning for Detecting Transfer Fraud

Sebastiaan Höppner, Bart Baesens, Wouter Verbeke +1

Card transaction fraud is a growing problem affecting card holders worldwide. Financial institutions increasingly rely upon data-driven methods for developing fraud detection syste…

physics.soc-ph2020

A study of the U.S. domestic air transportation network: Temporal evolution of network topology and robustness from 2001 to 2016

Leonidas Siozos-Rousoulis, Dimitri Robert, Wouter Verbeke

The U.S. air transportation network (ATN) is critical to the mobility and the functioning of the United States. It is thus necessary to ensure that it is well-connected, efficient,…

cs.LG2020

Autoencoders for strategic decision support

Sam Verboven, Jeroen Berrevoets, Chris Wuytens +2

In the majority of executive domains, a notion of normality is involved in most strategic decisions. However, few data-driven tools that support strategic decision-making are avail…

cs.LG2020

Learning to rank for uplift modeling

Floris Devriendt, Tias Guns, Wouter Verbeke

Uplift modeling has effectively been used in fields such as marketing and customer retention, to target those customers that are most likely to respond due to the campaign or treat…

cs.SI2020★ 108 cited

Social Network Analytics for Churn Prediction in Telco: Model Building, Evaluation and Network Architecture

María Óskarsdóttir, Cristián Bravo, Wouter Verbeke +3

Social network analytics methods are being used in the telecommunication industry to predict customer churn with great success. In particular it has been shown that relational lear…

cs.SI2020★ 17 cited

A Comparative Study of Social Network Classifiers for Predicting Churn in the Telecommunication Industry

Maria Óskarsdóttir, Cristián Bravo, Wouter Verbeke +3

Relational learning in networked data has been shown to be effective in a number of studies. Relational learners, composed of relational classifiers and collective inference method…