most citedFighting Sampling Bias: A Framework for Training and Evaluating Credit Scoring Models

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stat.ML2026

: Transparent and Fair Credit Risk Decisions through Semi-Structured Regressions

Victor Medina-Olivares, Stefan Lessmann, Jonathan Crook

Credit risk models increasingly need to combine predictive accuracy with transparent explanations and auditable fairness constraints. Logistic regression remains attractive because…

cs.LG2026

Tabular Foundation Models for Credit Risk Prediction: A Dedicated Review and Empirical Comparison

Bart Baesens, Andreas Goethals, Stefan Lessmann +10

Predictive models are central to credit risk management, where the accuracy of default-probability and loss estimates affects the profitability of lending and the stability of the…

q-fin.RM2026

Transfer Learning for Loan Recovery Prediction under Distribution Shifts with Heterogeneous Feature Spaces

Christopher Gerling, Hanqiu Peng, Ying Chen +1

Accurate forecasting of recovery rates (RR) is central to credit risk management and regulatory capital determination. In many loan portfolios, however, RR modeling is constrained…

stat.AP2026

Semi-structured multi-state delinquency model for mortgage default

Victor Medina-Olivares, Wangzhen Xia, Stefan Lessmann +1

We propose a semi-structured discrete-time multi-state model to analyse mortgage delinquency transitions. This model combines an easy-to-understand structured additive predictor, w…

stat.ML2026

Incorporating data drift to perform survival analysis on credit risk

Jianwei Peng, Stefan Lessmann

Survival analysis has become a standard approach for modelling time to default by time-varying covariates in credit risk. Unlike most existing methods that implicitly assume a stat…

stat.ML2024★ 2 cited

Fighting Sampling Bias: A Framework for Training and Evaluating Credit Scoring Models

Nikita Kozodoi, Stefan Lessmann, Morteza Alamgir +2

Scoring models support decision-making in financial institutions. Their estimation and evaluation are based on the data of previously accepted applicants with known repayment behav…