Financial distress prediction using signatures: evidence from Chinese listed firms
摘要
In studies related to the prediction on corporate financial distress/risk, achieving efficient and accurate risk prediction for imbalanced datasets is an important topic. This paper explores methods for efficiently training imbalanced datasets while ensuring that the trained models perform well in real-world market predictions. It also compares the performance of different models (Logistic, DNN, CNN, LSTM, Transformer, XGBoost, SVM) in real market data. Unlike previous research, this paper introduces the mathematical theory of the Signature algorithm and verifies that this algorithm significantly improves prediction performance across all models. These conclusions will bring new perspectives to future research on the predictions of imbalanced datasets and the combined application of mathematical theories and deep learning.