Incorporating data drift to perform survival analysis on credit risk

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.20533v1
• Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2026 12:22:08 GMT
• Title: Incorporating data drift to perform survival analysis on credit risk
• Authors: Jianwei Peng, Stefan Lessmann,
• Abstract summary: This study investigates the impact of data drift on survival-based credit risk models.<n>It proposes a dynamic joint modelling framework to improve robustness under non-stationary environments.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Survival analysis has become a standard approach for modelling time to default by time-varying covariates in credit risk. Unlike most existing methods that implicitly assume a stationary data-generating process, in practise, mortgage portfolios are exposed to various forms of data drift caused by changing borrower behaviour, macroeconomic conditions, policy regimes and so on. This study investigates the impact of data drift on survival-based credit risk models and proposes a dynamic joint modelling framework to improve robustness under non-stationary environments. The proposed model integrates a longitudinal behavioural marker derived from balance dynamics with a discrete-time hazard formulation, combined with landmark one-hot encoding and isotonic calibration. Three types of data drift (sudden, incremental and recurring) are simulated and analysed on mortgage loan datasets from Freddie Mac. Experiments and corresponding evidence show that the proposed landmark-based joint model consistently outperforms classical survival models, tree-based drift-adaptive learners and gradient boosting methods in terms of discrimination and calibration across all drift scenarios, which confirms the superiority of our model design.

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