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title: Investment Grade Rating with Explainable AI
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/4535478/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: SSRN 4535478
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4535478
featured: 2023-08-09
citations: unknown
topic: ML & AI Methods
---


# Investment Grade Rating with Explainable AI

The article explores the use of explainable AI in formulating rules on financial ratios to help companies enhance their credit ratings.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4535478
- Identifier: SSRN 4535478
- Released: 2022-07-15
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 11 (2023-08-09): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2023-08-09/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: ML & AI Methods

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