FSL-BDP: Federated Survival Learning with Bayesian Differential Privacy for Credit Risk Modeling

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.11134v1
• Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2026 09:48:57 GMT
• Title: FSL-BDP: Federated Survival Learning with Bayesian Differential Privacy for Credit Risk Modeling
• Abstract summary: Credit risk models are a critical decision-support tool for financial institutions.<n>Traditional default prediction suffers from two limitations.<n>We propose a Federated Survival Learning framework with Bayesian Differential Privacy.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Credit risk models are a critical decision-support tool for financial institutions, yet tightening data-protection rules (e.g., GDPR, CCPA) increasingly prohibit cross-border sharing of borrower data, even as these models benefit from cross-institution learning. Traditional default prediction suffers from two limitations: binary classification ignores default timing, treating early defaulters (high loss) equivalently to late defaulters (low loss), and centralized training violates emerging regulatory constraints. We propose a Federated Survival Learning framework with Bayesian Differential Privacy (FSL-BDP) that models time-to-default trajectories without centralizing sensitive data. The framework provides Bayesian (data-dependent) differential privacy (DP) guarantees while enabling institutions to jointly learn risk dynamics. Experiments on three real-world credit datasets (LendingClub, SBA, Bondora) show that federation fundamentally alters the relative effectiveness of privacy mechanisms. While classical DP performs better than Bayesian DP in centralized settings, the latter benefits substantially more from federation (+7.0\% vs +1.4\%), achieving near parity of non-private performance and outperforming classical DP in the majority of participating clients. This ranking reversal yields a key decision-support insight: privacy mechanism selection should be evaluated in the target deployment architecture, rather than centralized benchmarks. These findings provide actionable guidance for practitioners designing privacy-preserving decision support systems in regulated, multi-institutional environments.

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