Re-exploration of Small and Micro Enterprises'Default Characteristics Based on Machine Learning Models with SHAP
Machine learning methods have been applied to the small and micro enterprises'loan approval and monitoring process,and have achieved good results in default identification.Considering the higher recognition accuracy of machine learning methods,its use of indicator information should be better than traditional models.Therefore,it hopes to dig out the important factors in the judgment of default from the perspective of machine learning in this paper.SHAP is a machine learning interpretation method based on the Shapley value of game theory,which can identify the importance of indicators in the model from the perspective of results.Based on the small and micro enterprise loan account of a bank,SHAP(SHapley Additive exPlanations)is added to machine learning models to find important default characteristics of small and micro enterprises.It is found that,in addition to traditional loan information and corporate financial indicators,non-financial indicators such as the age of the company,the number of law cases,and the"soft information"evaluated by the customer manager play significant role in identifying defaults of small and micro enterprises.From the perspective of interpret-ability,the application of machine learning methods is discussed in the identification of default characteristics of small and micro enterprises,and innovatively the SHAP interpretation method is introduced to study important indicators in rating.At the same time,the key indicators mined have guiding significance for the development of loan business.
small and micro enterprisesdefault characteristicsnon-financial informationSHAPmachine learning