对比多种机器学习方法,在严重不平衡数据下提升破产预测敏感度。
Comparative Evaluation of Machine Learning Approaches for Minority-Class Financial Distress Prediction Under Class Imbalance Constraints

- 用SMOTE处理数据不平衡,结合梯度提升模型提高小类识别率。
- XGBoost等梯度提升模型在极端不平衡下敏感度优于传统统计方法。
- 强调可复现、可解释,适合金融风控场景的可信机器学习应用。
由于真实财务数据高度不平衡,破产或陷入困境的企业仅占极少数,企业风险分析中的财务困境预测仍具挑战性。本文在类别不平衡约束下,对比经典统计方法、集成学习与探索性神经网络模型在少数类财务困境预测中的表现。研究包含结构化预处理、使用合成少数类过采样技术(SMOTE)缓解不平衡问题,并在XGBoost、CatBoost、LightGBM、随机森林等集成学习架构上进行对比评估,同时采用基于SHAP的特征重要性分析实现可解释性。实验表明,在严重不平衡条件下,梯度提升方法相比基线统计分类器显著提升了少数类敏感度。该工作强调可复现性、可解释性、可审计性和治理导向的机器学习评估,旨在支持企业在严重类别不平衡条件下的可信赖财务困境预测流程。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Financial distress prediction remains a significant challenge in enterprise risk analysis due to the highly imbalanced nature of real-world financial datasets, where bankrupt or distressed firms typically constitute only a small minority of observations. This paper presents a comparative evaluation of classical statistical methods, ensemble learning approaches, and exploratory neural models for minority-class financial distress prediction under class imbalance constraints. The study incorporates structured preprocessing, imbalance mitigation using the Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique (SMOTE), comparative evaluation across ensemble learning architectures including XGBoost, CatBoost, LightGBM, Random Forest, and explainability analysis using SHAP-based feature attribution methods. Experimental evaluation demonstrates that gradient-boosting approaches achieved improved minority-class sensitivity relative to baseline statistical classifiers under severe imbalance conditions. The workflow additionally emphasises reproducibility, interpretability, auditability, and governance-oriented machine learning evaluation within enterprise financial risk environments. The work is positioned as an applied engineering evaluation intended to support reproducible and interpretable machine learning workflows for financial distress prediction under severe class imbalance constraints.
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