Title
An Assertive Machine Learning Model for Rural Micro Credit Assessment in Peru
Date Issued
01 January 2022
Access level
open access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Elsevier B.V.
Abstract
The rural population in Peru has limited access to the financial system due to the high cost of credit and the high risk (default rates) caused by the informal sector. Thus, it is necessary to improve the assertive microcredits loans in favor of the rural economy. The Peruvian model is based mainly on evaluation achieved by experts, whose main tasks are to evaluate and verify clients requesting these microcredits. Currently, these tasks are performed manually and subjective to the expert's judgment. This work proposes to find the highest level of assertiveness for the credit granting process and the consequent reduction of credit risk using several Machine Learning models. These models considered significant variables of the microcredit evaluation process in rural areas, testing techniques such as SMOTE and K-fold and, evaluating the models using some metrics, such as Accuracy, Precision, Recall, F1 Score, AUC ROC. The LightGBM model, based on decision trees, achieved an excellent level of assertiveness, with a 96.20% loan success rate. The results to reduce the delinquency rate prove that it is optimal to use technological tools such as machine learning models to support decision-making by experts of credit risk assessment in rural areas.
Start page
301
End page
306
Volume
202
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Negocios, Administración
Ingeniería de sistemas y comunicaciones
Ciencias de la computación
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85132187912
Source
Procedia Computer Science
ISSN of the container
18770509
Conference
12th International Conference on Identification, Information and Knowledge in the internet of Things, IIKI 2021 Hangzhou 18 December 2021 through 18 December 2021
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