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  1. Machine Learning in Banks By, Abhishek Upadhyay
  2. Will Machine replace You? Simple Answer is “NO”
  3. Machine Learning: Intersection of programming, statistics, and data
  4. Machine that can think and work like humans, but free from human errors and biases, can harness the big data and high computational power, runs on highly sophisticated algorithms is the next frontier in technological arms race
  5. Machine Learning: Approach • “Machine learning is a method of data analysis that automates analytical model building. Using algorithms that iteratively learn from data, machine learning allows computers to find hidden insights without being explicitly programmed where to look.” – SAS • Let machine learn how best to achieve the desired output. Processes data in a way that machine can detect and learn from patterns, predict future activity, and make decisions. Data is fuel: More the data, better the learning.
  6. 18th century also saw one of the most influential data visualization (a map) of all time, produced by John Snow. John Snow disapproved the then dominant miasma theory that stated that diseases such as cholera were caused by noxious bad air. In 1854, London, Cholera strike killed many, then, John Snow collected data of all deaths, analysed it, and plotted every death on map. Later, John Snow used dot map to illustrate the cluster of cholera cases around the pump. The map shows the location of the 13 public wells in the area and 578 cholera deaths mapped by home address, around Soho district. It was evident from map that cases were clustered around the pump in Broad (Broadwick) street. Map was part of the detailed statistical analysis done by Snow. Snow interpreted and theorized that cholera was spread through the contaminated water. Quality Data and Powerful visualisation results in right interpretation And finally intervention: A new sewer system.
  7. How to measure Data Quality • 5 R’s of Data Quality • Relevancy: Is the data collected is relevant to the problem we are solving? • Recency: How recent was the data generated? • Range: How narrow or wide is the scope of data? • Robustness: What is signal to noise ratio? • Reliability: How accurate is the data that we are working with? • Ask Questions: • What is my target data quality? • What if only 50% of data is available and How sensitive is analysis to missing data? • What signal will be used to understand the quality of data? • Ephemeral vs Durable • Noise vs Bias
  8. Machine Learning Introduction
  9. Machine Learning • Machine Learning is a branch of artificial intelligence that allows computer systems to learn directly from examples, data, and experience. • Through enabling computers to perform specific tasks intelligently, ML systems can carry out complex processes by learning from data, rather than following pre- programmed rules. • Machine Learning relies on data and does different type of analysis: • Descriptive (data mining) - Analyse the data for creating approach for future such as detecting anomalies in current data based on past data; • Predictive (forecasting) – Turn data into valuable information for prediction such as when problem will occur; • Prescriptive (optimization) – synthesize big data and suggest decisions. • One of the most important paper on ML is written by Pedro Domingos in 2012 in which he summarized the key lessons of Machine Learning
  10. Machine Learning: Predictive Model Building • Data collection (predictors and response) • Exploratory data analysis (EDA) • Data Preprocessing • Assigning numerical values to categorical data • Handling missing values • Normalizing the features (so that features on small scales do not dominate when fitting a model to the data). • Algorithm selection • Model selection Parametrized mapping (function or process) between the data domain and the response set, which learn the characteristics of a system from the input (labelled) data. Modelling may have several algorithms to derive a model; however, the term algorithm here refers to a learning algorithm. The learning algorithm is used to train, validate, and test the model using a given data set to find an optimal value for the parameters, validate it, and evaluate its performance. • Model evaluation • AUC
  11. The Learners Thousands of ML algorithms exist and hundreds get added with time (Domingos, 2012). A learner can be mix of learning algorithms. Algorithms can be grouped or understood of classified in two ways: One way is the learning style and other is similarity in function. There are different ways an algorithm can model a problem based on its interaction with the input data and it is popular to first consider the learning styles that an algorithm can adopt (Brownlee, 2013): • Supervised learning, system is trained with data that is labelled, for example, machine trained with normal or suspicious labelled previous credit card transactions. • Unsupervised learning, the objective is to identify or infer a function to describe a hidden structure or similarity of patterns in unlabelled data, such as finding clusters in graph or which products customer can buy next. • Semi-supervised learning, Input data is mixture of labelled and unlabelled data. • Reinforcement learning, focuses learning from experience in which machine learns the consequences of its decisions, such as which moves lead to win in game. In IT operations, reinforcement learning enables a self-healing system that learns what actions need to do to recover from an incident, increase data flows, and optimize operations (Kaluza, 2015)
  12. Machine Learning – The time is now • The recent success of AI has got lot of media attention because of the immersive experience that users are seeing and experiencing and many believe soon existing software’s, trading algorithms, fund managers, and banking systems may be replaced by AI. • Machine could be customer service executive, banker, and next Warren Buffet. • ML – a narrow Artificial Intelligence – is booming and media attention is all time high right now. • “The future is already here – It’s just not evenly distributed” – William Gibson • “Machine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make.” (Bostrom, 2015) • Either integrate slowly or adopt rapidly, Banks have to do it, Banks definitely need a roadmap
  13. Challenges In adoption of Machine Learning
  14. Disruptive Technology • The difference in the technological frames of managers and technologists, Complacency with existing systems, and Organisational Agility to adopt new technology? • Established firms are more inclined to invest in sustaining technologies (Christensen, C. M., 1997)
  15. Technology Competence • Managers understanding of ML model and assuming ownership of it? • Decision makers have different level of understanding of data: many find data mysterious, confusing, and distant • Interpretability of ML models?
  16. Trust • Analytical processes hidden between Layers – Will they be accepted by Regulators? • What’s risk? • Will data sharing lead to privacy breach? • How model is making decision and what is accuracy? • Auditing? • Costs vs Benefits?
  17. Culture
  18. Skills
  19. Data & Information Silos • A data silo is a repository of data that remains under the control of one department and is isolated from the rest of the organization. • Distributed data is the biggest challenge in realising the potential of data. • Traditionally software applications are written at one point in time and optimised for their main business function creating data silos. • Political groups within organisation are suspicious of others wanting their data • Banks have lived through multiple leaders, mergers & acquisitions, long existing divisions, legacy IT systems, and philosophies, resulting in distributed and incompatible systems. • Vendor lock-in, software vendors are good in making customers transition to another product tough by making hard the data extraction & migration hard from their product.
  20. Overcome the Challenges
  21. Promote favourable patterns • Articulate interactions between managers and technologists for common interpretation of technology • Organizational Agility is collective of members agility and creativeness • “Design strategies that enhance the ability of humans to understand AI systems and decisions (such as explicitly explaining those decisions), and to participate in their use, may help build trust and prevent drastic failures” – Stanford University research report • Open up the discussion across bank, create boundaries, simulate attractors, encourage dissent and diversity, manage starting conditions and monitor for emergence (of patterns), and brainswarming • Duplicate data, log data, and present it when needed • Embrace opportunity with right mindset and tools • Robust IT architecture to support changes
  22. Visualize the data
  23. Visualize the ML Model and decision making
  24. Visualize the IT Rabobank has invested in a 3D model of its IT landscape mapping departments and IT systems: two models, one representing current and one representing the future (target), after 3 months of gathering information. Rabobank has now also built the 3D model in virtual reality, in order to add an extra layer to the experience. There are also plans to build a virtual model using hologram techniques. Current situation in image, departments on top, systems below, connections in between.
  25. Data Governance • The upgraded enterprise data governance should focus on unifying the people, processes, data, and technologies. New age data governance aimed at ending the bureaucracy within Banks will organize the free flow of information but at the same time maintain data quality and deal with security and regulatory challenges. • For years IT professionals convinced business leaders that it is technical thing and they should control the data governance decisions. But, pragmatic and ease to use comes to fore as business leaders from different verticals realize their teams can make numerous decisions using powerful tools but still controlled within rules, laws, regulations, and ethics. • Data Governance 2.0 is about an agile approach to data governance focussed on just enough controls for managing risks, enabling more insightful use of data.
  26. Approaches • Data Governance is an iterative cycle with need focussed on master data management and business case • The elements of strategy are both defence (SSOT) and offense (MVOT) (source: HBR) • Options: • Cold Storage • Data Lake • Cloud Data warehouse • Logical Data Warehouse • Specialised tool for use case basis
  27. Vendors • COLLIBRA is recognised as leader in Data Governance platforms by Gartner and Forrester • INFORMATICA and IBM have build Data Governance platforms for long time • TRIFACTA try to solve the data preparation problem with a belief that people who know data should be able to wrangle the data themselves. Trifacta sits between the data storage and ML models and provides many facilities such as Connectivity, Metadata management, Processing, Intelligence, Wrangling, Transformation, and Publishing. Trifacta is a data wrangling platform that helps business analysts to intuitively wrangle data themselves without relying on IT engineers (trifacta, 2017) • PAXATA is reliable platform for solving the data preparation as the platform beings together multi-structured data from diverse sources (paxata, 2017) • Many Banks while adopting Machine Learning will start small – use case by use case - but without complete analysis of the data governance they may either face scalability problems in later stages and they will run ML models in silos. Banks can opt for building a unified architecture for data governance that is available to all and it is scalable. DATABRICKS is a unified analytics platform. (databricks, 2017)
  28. Machine in Context • Machines are strategic assets. • The ML programmers have to guide the exploration of data in ways that support the goals of organisation; they need to put hat of strategic analysis not just data analysis • ML programmers have to be aware of other parts of company, know problems of company in depth, and be more valuable • ML programmers should know the broad context in which to put machine learning. • As a manager, ask yourself a question, “How would you describe the role of machine in your organisation?”
  29. Where to use Machine Learning finding new use cases of Machine Learning
  30. Finding use case for Machine Learning – Find business problem The business problem can of simple or complicated and if Machine Learning can help solve the problem can be decided by asking questions: • Q: Think of one or more business problems of your Bank that are un-solved or can be solved better? Problems that are: • Complicated – Not straight-forward – Can’t be solved by standard software or automation – OR not clear pre-defined sequence of steps • A learning from data is required such as prediction – more than casual inference – need to know certain aspects of data related to each other • Problem is sufficiently self-contained, relatively insulated from outside influences Business problem should have all three characteristics to be a potential problem to be solved by Machine Learning. One knowing that problem fits in ML domain, further two important questions to answer are: • Q: Whether right data exists for the problem? Where does it comes from? Is data feed for machine sufficient to solve the problem? • Q: Which ML method makes more sense to the problem?
  31. Does business problem matched ML canonical problem Canonical Problem Description Question Classification When to choose in which category data belongs or predict the category of data. Categories can be only two (Yes or No, Fraud or Not Fraud) in case of binary classification or more in case of multi-class classification. To which category this data point belongs? Regression When to predict a value such as stock price. Given the input from dataset, what is likely value of particular problem? Clustering When the data is unlabelled and complex, organising it to look simpler, then unsupervised learning is called clustering such as finding clusters in network Which data points are similar to form cluster? Dimensionality reduction When dataset has huge number of features or variables or columns then select most effective features so that implemented ML model is simple, faster, and reliable. What are the most significant features of this data and how can these be summarised? Semi-supervised learning When dataset is combination of labelled and unlabelled. Anomaly Detection: When to identify data points that are simply unusual such as detecting the breach or fraud. The training dataset will be small and possible variations are numerous. Anomaly Detection learns what is normal activity (on small training data and in real time i.e. online) and identifies anything significantly different. How can detection be developed with small training data set? Reinforcement learning The learning algorithm takes action for each data point and receives reward if decision was good. Algorithm modifies its strategy to gain maximum rewards, for example in Gaming and Robotics What actions will achieve most effectively desired output? The next table, taken from Royal Society report, classifies the problems that ML solves; therefore, ML classification is done based on the problems. Canonical problems are the fundamental problems that ML seeks to solve. If identified Business Problem is one of the Canonical Problem, then business problem can be solved by Machine Learning. Multiple algorithms exist for each Canonical problem and Banks will have to experiment with them regarding which one suits best. Experienced ML programmers and data scientist can tell more easily about right ML algorithm or combination of ML algorithms.
  32. ML Canonical Problem and examples Canonical Problem Applications Classification Face recognition: Identify people by their face for identity verification and surveillance Image recognition: Picture is of car or not car to be used during insurance claims. Fraud detection: Based on customer features predict if customer can repay loan Classification: Customer sentiment is positive or negative for new product Regression Financial forecasting: What stock price will be in future Click rate prediction: Probability of customer clicking ad Pricing: House price prediction Future performance: Include financial data, news, sentiments, social media, and press releases to predict future of companies. Clustering Document modelling: Find patterns and structures in documents Network analysis: Find clusters in network E-commerce: Customers with similar interests Dimensionality reduction Data mining: Find best performing features from high dimension data E-commerce: Which features summarize our targeted customer Semi-supervised learning Anomaly Detection: Cybersecurity, Financial Terrorism Reinforcement learning Trading Gaming: AlphaGo
  33. Use Cases Existing few use cases of machine learning
  34. Machine Learning Use Cases • ZOPA • HashtingsDIRECT – Insurance Company • Fraud prevention in PayPal – Payments • Numerai - Hedge Fund relies on an anonymous army of coders • Neurensic - Policing the Stock Market • Google Cloud ML Engine • Machine Learning in Insurance • Data Governance using Machine Learning • Reducing the credit Gap
  35. ZOPA – peer-to-peer lending platform ZOPA uses ML in everything it does: Credit Risk, Fraud, ID verification, Document tampering, Pricing, and Customer Segmentation. For Credit Risk, Journey of ML: Gathering the Dataset, Defining the target, Feature optimisation, ML model building, and Model stacking. Dataset for Credit Risk comes from Credit agencies – Mortgages, credit cards, accounts, payments, and so on – more than 3000 features for 100s thousands of borrowers. Firstly, the dataset is cleaned – handling null and rare values and converting category values into numbers – and then normalization. 3000 features are reduced to tens using feature selection (dimensionality reduction) for easier, faster, and more reliable implementation. Features are selected based on importance. Based on features selected, ML model predicts (binary classification) is customer can repay the loan or not. For prediction, ZOPA, experimented many ML algorithms found that combination of Neural networks and GBT worked best.
  36. HashtingsDIRECT – Insurance Company • Business Problem is to predict: • How many accidents customer is likely to have? • How much accidents are going to cost? • The datasets are imbalanced: Many customers don’t have accidents and many accidents are not expensive. • Data comes from several sources (3rd parties and customers), at different quality, and different stages (claims, location, vehicle, and government) • Challenges in insurance industry are: managing quotes, legacy IT, long feedback loops (customer can claim after years), and conservative industry (not allowed to use few fairly predictive features such as Gender). • A combination of supervised and unsupervised learning is done. • ML can’t run on current legacy IT, so, IT will be upgraded
  37. Fraud prevention in PayPal – Payments • PayPal uses Oracle for online transaction but for offline processing PayPal uses Hadoop. • PayPal has 15000 features engineered over years in repository to build ML models over it. • ML models are applied at transaction level (when users make payment). More sophisticated models are applied after transaction completes. • Fraud prevention is a supervised learning problem and PayPal uses Neural Networks (as algorithm). • Current ML model had AUC of 0.96, but PayPal decided to improve it by improve labelling. • Labelling in PayPal was human driven and PayPal tested if it can be improved using ML. • PayPal used ML Algorithm - Active Learning (see Notes) - over heuristic user labelling to improve the labelling quality that in turn improves the data that is feed into Supervised ML models. • Finally improving AUC from 0.96 to 0.979. Previously it used to take a week for labelling but with use of Active Learning labelling effort has come down to 30 minutes. (See Notes)
  38. Fraud prevention in PayPal – Payments
  39. Numerai - Hedge Fund relies on an anonymous army of coders • Entirely anonymous (if they want) 7500 developers receive trading data to make forecast using ML. If predictions are useful, they get paid in cryptocurrency. • Since industry has been under fire for being overpriced and underperforming, ML can munch extra data that humans and regular algorithms couldn’t make sense. • Numer.ai wants to transition the negative competition between massive hedge funds into highly valuable collaborative space to create the first hedge fund with network effect. • Numerai brings crowd intelligence – harness people who don’t want to take it as a day job but they are good in data handling, AI, and statistics, and they don’t have resources to start a hedge fund - capturing the intelligence of crowd in which any one can participate and bring it to stock market. • It’s a math problem and one doesn’t need to know any finance but can share the his or her data science skills with Numerai and Numerai will pay by making money in stock market. Another benefit of ML that Numerai is utilizing is many ML models can run on encrypted data.
  40. Numerai - Hedge Fund relies on an anonymous army of coders • Numerai had a notion of meta model - one big benefit of ML comes from combining different ML models such as one model perfectly predicts only utility stocks and another model perfectly predicts bank stocks and meta model can be created combining both models. • Every data scientist on Numerai is solving the same problem using the same underlying features. But every data scientist approaches the problem in their own unique way. With many different solutions to the same problem, Numerai is able to combine each model into a meta model just like Random Forests combines decision trees into a forest. • Logloss error of the best Numerai data scientists — Numerai’s meta model has lower error than any individual model.
  41. Neurensic - Policing the Stock Market • Economy worldwide is priced on capital market and Most of the trading is algorithmic but surveillance has been manual for a very long time. • Billions of dollars are spent by financial institutions on trade surveillance alone. Trade surveillance is a trillion-dollar problem in billion-dollar industry that is based on 20 years old technology. • Neurensic look financial data for illegal activities by applying ML to the market. Data comes from all kind of exchanges (Chicago, NASDAQ, London, and so on), audit logs, clearing houses, and bunch of systems. The machine has to be intelligent because data is big (terabytes scale - trillion rows daily), signal is very small, and algorithms have to be updated (change) rapidly because of the changes in ways of illegal things. • Since Neurensic is not a law enforcement organisation, also it can't declare someone's intent, but it can monitor ones behaviour and with help of past data (activities that have been investigated or prosecuted before) and domain experts, can give it a risk score, and bring it in front of compliance officer. Finding the illegal or questionable activity is the first step and next is to explain why? especially when ML are notorious for being opaque.
  42. Neurensic - Policing the Stock Market • Pull the data (audit logs and market data), filter it down to last step (from billions to 100s), put compelling visualizations, and explain step by step. Visualisations of raw data is a key because that is real evidence (not ML results) - ML runs on heavy processed data but in order to present findings one needs to go back raw data and possibly past transactions line by line. • Visualizations can be graphs, movies - show trades in real time in slow - tick by tick, and new visuals for new patterns. Browser and Mobile based visualizations that can be displayed to CxO's and lawyers. All data science in Neurensic is in Python running on H2O.ai (premier open source ML tool with cutting edge ML algorithms) and within minutes DS algorithm goes from research to production.
  43. Neurensic - Policing the Stock Market • Audit logs (in CSV format) are pulled into H2O, which is very good in compressing; the data is then made ready, using ETL – handle missing values, normalize, uniform mapping for tokens and products from different sources, and clean-up for ML; Sorted and each CPU gets equal proportion of data to process in parallel; Clustered – depending on the ML model requirements data is segregated and grouped such as transactions close in time or transactions for same instrument; define features and run ML models on clusters in sequence on each CPU; and risks file are generated based on type of risk. Risk file has lot of details and a pointer to raw data.
  44. Google Cloud ML Engine • Organisations moving to cloud and using Google Cloud ML engine will have most of the work only related to cleansing of data (estimated 90%). • Currently Google is using ML in almost all of its products • Google is providing the ML as a service (Application Programming Interface, API) • Benefit of using Google API’s is that they are already tested on huge data and are in production for few years so organisations using those API’s can avoid training the ML • API’s can be used to solve many business problems, such as API’s related to image and video can be used in Insurance industry (see Notes) • API’s related to speech, natural language processing (NLP), language translation, and so on can be used for creating Video assistant, Face Banking, chat bots, or enhance existing applications • Many Banking use cases, running on Google Cloud are already using API’s such as Risk analytics, Regulations, Customer Segmentation, Cross-selling and up-selling, Credit risk, and fraud detection (See Notes)
  45. Google Cloud ML Engine Google has open sourced its ML framework – TensorFlow, which is used extensively inside Google; but for more managed experience Google Cloud customers can choose “Cloud ML Engine”, so that Client organisations need not worry about infrastructure at all and focus only on ML model. Companies can use Google framework to build ML models or they can use the API’s directly.
  46. Machine Learning in Insurance • “Anything You Can Do, AI Can Do Better” - George Argesanu, Global Head of Analytics from AIG and Monika Schulze, Global Head of Marketing, Zurich Insurance Company • Predictive analytics (Canonical problem “Regression”) using ML can be applied in all existing areas of Insurance: Pricing, Fraud, Claims, Marketing, P&L Analysis, Behavioural Analysis, and Preventive Insurance. • As machines think faster and smarter companies will get more accurate pricing, processes will be efficient, frauds are more likely to be caught, and losses will be more likely prevented. • Insurance industry is going through disruption and will face new products: Telematics, Self-driving cars, Internet of Things, and Cybercrimes. • Insurance industry will have to think of business problems which will come in future and think how machine learning will help to solve them: How fitness bands and apps change user behaviour, how premiums are affected, how lives can be saved, and how possessions can be preserved. (see Notes)
  47. (See Notes)
  48. Data Governance using Machine Learning • The problems solved by ML are similar to data governance problems such as dimension reduction, prediction, and regression. • The commercial platform from Pedro systems is designed to make sense of the unstructured data from unstructured documents such as excel sheet. • The Pendo data platform indexes the documents, searches data inside documents and give insights, document’s full lineage, Iterates, refines, and classifies the data. • The ML algorithm indexes the documents, classifies the customer data, and makes it accessible and searchable, full data lineage of unstructured data
  49. Reduce the Credit Gap - Individuals • With the advent of mobile devices, internet of things, social media, and mobile payments in past few years, more features are available for ML models. • Measuring the financial well-being is a problem of Classification and Dimensionality reduction. • Traditional credit scoring system rely on individual traits – age, job, and gender – while being oblivious to the spatial-temporal mobility patterns and habits of the individuals. • Inspired by the emerging trend of mobile payment and geo-aware, a ML model build over human consumption pattern across time and space is able to predict the financial well- being by 30% to 49% better than comparable demographic models (Singh, et al., 2015). • Inspired by the biological phenomenon of foraging, a basic pattern of animal movement for food and resources, human purchase behaviour was studied through three shopping behavioural traits: Diversity (Exploration), Loyalty (Exploitation), and Regularity (Plasticity). Behavioural indicators were combined with more financial trouble indicators and ML model was trained to predict whether customer is likely to have financial trouble or not.
  50. Reduce the Credit Gap - SME Traditional approaches for measuring financial well-being such as Earning per asset or Equity per asset have limited predictability. One idea is to create a network of merchants in which vertices represent merchants and weight of the edge is based on the number of common customers. Analysing the network is the canonical problem of Clustering (under unsupervised learning) that is solved by ML. Structural information, community detection, will be used as indicator of financial well-being of merchant. The information is used as feature in constructing the next ML predictive model.
  51. Conclusion Further work & Next Steps
  52. Data Governance • Organizations preparing to adopt Machine Learning tomorrow should start Data Governance today: either for one department or entire organisation • Stream data from silos/departments and invest in the use case, tie the integration to create value – a progressive step to create integrated platform of enterprise data for advance capabilities (Wilder-James, 2016) • To address the issue of data quality, Great Western Bank created a data committee with members from different teams across organisation. The team created standard definitions that teams across bank use. (banktech, 2014)
  53. Next Steps • Find a business area where data is already robust and plentiful, and has a business problem that can be solved by machine learning • Train the managers, move to cloud, make organisation agile, find business problems, finding use cases with robust data, apply data governance, and prepare data today for applying Machine Learning tomorrow • Embrace the increased competition in data value chain and realize ecosystem is the new value proposition • Build platform instead of product
  54. Cautions • Though guarantees of Machine Learning may be only theoretical, but things will be done better with machine learning – We are relying on the promise and power of computers • It will also be interesting to see how the Machine Learning works together with some other key developments such as data protection laws, identity thefts, secure systems, and distributed ledger. • Expectations from Business leaders and managers is more now on how they approach this new relation between humans and machines, and they become more accountable and liable when data is shared and decisions are taken by machines.
  55. Conclusion • Its time rethink strategy and make it iterative as machines become better and better • One can’t ignore the opportunity that computing power is increasing, we are collecting more data, storage cost is reducing, and algorithms are improving • Not only implement Machine Learning but also interpret the model • Upgrade the IT architecture and Data Governance practices
  56. Thank You Abhishek Upadhyay

Notes de l'éditeur

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  6. Ai has been area of interest since the term was originated 60 years back but what is different in this decade.
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  12. For long, Banking is a standardized industry and Banks developed legitimate best principles because cause and effect relation was linear, repeatability allowed predictive models to be created, and the focus was on efficiency. The decision model was: sense incoming information, categorize that information, and respond in accordance with predetermined practice. The culture of Banks prevent Banks from being agile and innovative. The slow adoption of latest technology can be related to the culture of banks. Are experienced managers ready to be influenced by machines and delegate some of their tasks to machines without fear of being replaced?
  13. Even though Banks have recognized the opportunity of Big Data, Data Science, and ML, they are still struggling with the today’s big data ecosystem, because of shortage of trained data scientists who can make sense of troves of data collected by Banks over years. Not only Data Scientists, Banks also need skilled resources, Data Engineers and Architects, who can transform the legacy IT systems and enterprise architectures into ML ecosystem. Banks have used Data warehouses for storing large data and ran queries over it, which worked well with structured data, but, in the age of massive unstructured data and big data, ecosystem needs upgradation. Too many technologies and frequent changes is confusing.
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  19. PayPal is receiving many transactions and labelling each one is not possible so idea behind Active learning is how to select minimum number or best sample (top 10 samples) needed to build ML models. A robust sampling technique is key for success of Active Learning. Idea is to select sample effectively that should be given to human for labelling, for example, suppose a model predicts if transaction is fraud or not with accuracy of 0.5, then sample can be given to human to label it correctly using other tools, so, rather than giving random datasets from huge pool of database give dataset that is closer to boundary (0.5 accurate), and once data is labelled by human, add that data back to model. Research says, randomly selecting sample and applying ML results in 70% accuracy but ML model using Active learning results in 90% accuracy. PayPal started with small set of labelled data, and analysed the current ML model being used. PayPal was using single layer neural network but they found deep learning and GBT successfully challenged their existing model and GBT outperformed deep learning because features were human engineered. One benefit of deep learning is it learns features so that is another research for PayPal to reengineer some of the features, which are human engineered, using deep learning. PayPal uses both models and if they are in disagreement then human experts intervene (Query by Committee). Humans are feed with data and supporting infrastructure such as simulation environment to re-compute the feature logic and apply it back to ML model. Finding and applying the benefits of deep learning is next logical step in ML for PayPal. PayPal is using H2O tool rather than TensorFlow and R language. 1-year data (11 million transactions) was used to train and tested on 4 million transactions using 500-600 features. Improving the prediction can be done by analysing bigger data (uses transactions of more than 5 years), improving algorithm, better features, or better labelling.
  20. Source: Ramanaathan, Venkatesh “Large Scale Machine Learning for Payment Fraud Prevention”, 2017, https://www.infoq.com/presentations/paypal-ml-fraud-prevention?utm_source=presentations_about_MachineLearning&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=MachineLearning
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  22. Source: https://medium.com/numerai/invisible-super-intelligence-for-the-stock-market-3c64b57b244c
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  24. Organisations moving to cloud and using Google Cloud ML engine will have most of the work related to cleansing of data (estimated 90%). ML is the rocket and data is the fuel. The growth of ML acceptance is exponential as reported by NVIDIA that CPU sales are flat for past few years but GPU is where growth is, driven by ML. Google has realised this explosion and investing in special purpose hardware – Tensor processing unit (TPU). Currently Google is using ML in its broad range of products: Android, Apps, Gmail, Maps, Speech, Search, Translation, YouTube, Self-driving car, and so on. The use of ML in Google is transparent to end user but it is running behind, for example, when user searches for photos of beach the ML in background classifies each image if it is a beach photo or not. Google is providing the ML as an API (Application Programming Interface) such as Cloud Vision API, Speech API, Natural Language API, Translation API, Video Intelligence API, and so on to its clients. Benefit of using Google API’s is that they are already tested on huge data and are in production for few years, such as same technology used by google for image search is available for organisations to use, as an API. Lot of problems related to ML are solved by Cloud providers such as Google, except the data. Organisations have to think about data governance, cleaning, lineage, and quality. API’s related to image and video can be applicable to Banking industry such image uploaded by end user for insurance claims: Video Stabilization, Stabilize the video taken by phone; Protect the content from malicious uploads, such as, preventing end user from uploading the adult content; Classify the model/make of car from photos; Classifying the videos uploaded by end users; pulling text from image or masking the sensitive text in image such as ID number in image before storing in database; and finding the location of image. Another benefit of using the API’s related to images is that they have already learned the image recognition so clients don’t need to train the model. Combining Natural language processing API’s for speech recognition, language translation, Image, and Video API’s Banks can create truly immersive apps such as Face Banking, Video advisors, and revamp the existing online and mobile banking platforms. Using ML to build relationship graph of the information and data. Rather than hard coding rules for information retrieval and search (hard coded search queries with rules), use ML to learn the patterns in similar to RankBrain, which is a key signal used in Google search. Google is experimenting to use AlphaGo, based on reinforcement learning, to reduce the amount of energy spend on air conditioning. Google reduced the data centre usage by 40% by using ML. Since, Google has lot of high-end solutions for both structured and unstructured data, analytics and big data tools, ML API’s and frameworks; it makes a promising use case for organisations to move their data to Google Cloud or any similar one, if not done or not in progress yet. Many use cases from financial services companies are already running on Google cloud such as Risk analytics and regulations, Customer segmentation, Cross-selling and up-selling, Sales and Marketing campaign management, and Credit worthiness. Insurance company, AXA, uses ML to calculate premium, shifting from rules based system to ML based system. Similarly, Bank SMFG, moved from rules based system of credit card fraud detection to ML based system on Google Cloud. End users provide data, and ML learns from data to better understand user; thereby creating a new level of personalised services. Business processes can be streamlined as machines learn about the patterns and anomalies. Providing more relevant information to right user on right time.
  25. Source: Ramanathan, R., 2017. Infuse your business with Machine Learning. [Online] Available at: https://cloudonair.withgoogle.com/events/next-live-emea-2017/watch?talk=session-3-day-1
  26. Source: Argesanu, G. & Schulze, M., 2016. Anything You Can Do, AI Can Do Better, London: Insurance Nexus. In the report prepared by George Argesanu, Global Head of Analytics from AIG and Monika Schulze, Global Head of Marketing, Zurich Insurance Company “Anything You Can Do, AI Can Do Better”, they say Machine Learning is a natural progression of more than century of predictive analytics and it is cutting edge technology that blows apart old thinking and catapult company into generating business even many times faster it has been before. One of the biggest difference between the existing statistical modelling such as Generalised Linear Model and ML models such as Neural Networks and Decision Trees is that machines are algorithmic based and self-learning so they blur the line between past and present which predicting future whereas statistical models use historical data and parametric approach. ML models can be applied on customer by customer basis and can combine images and videos. Predictive analytics (Canonical problem “Regression”) using ML can be applied in all existing areas of Insurance: Pricing, Fraud, Claims, Marketing, P&L Analysis, Behavioural Analysis, and Preventive Insurance. As machines think faster and smarter companies will get more accurate pricing, processes will be efficient, frauds are more likely to be caught, and losses will be more likely prevented. Insurance companies face same challenges as discussed before in Literature Review chapter and they can modernise case by case. But, Insurance industry is going through disruption and will face new products: Telematics, Self-driving cars, Internet of Things, and Cybercrimes. Insurance industry will have to think of business problems which will come in future and think how machine learning will help to solve them: How fitness bands and apps change user behaviour, how premiums are affected, how lives can be saved, and how possessions can be preserved. Per line of business companies need to articulate what problem they are trying to solve and where is data. Create foundation of data for analytics, move data and computations to cloud, and engage machine learning. Insurance companies lack frequent interactions with their customers therefore they need to encourage customers to engage in machine learning process through physical technologies such as Telematics and through applications for greater access to data. Many insurance companies start with risk mitigation approach. Partnership within company and with external providers and taking it slowly are defining ways for approaching Machine Learning.
  27. “Recognition pipeline in an autonomous car” is an example of two canonical problems of ML – Feature extraction and Classification – It is a 3-step process and ML methods are used. The image is captured in real time and classified as “Stop Sign”. Insurance companies dealing with insurance of autonomous cars will face many use cases of classifications while possibly processing claims of autonomous cars, when they will analyse the images captured and decisions made by the autonomous car that met an accident.
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