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Affirm reports more completed purchases from a hybrid underwriting model

Affirm announced a transformer-based underwriting model on September 17 and reported 3.4% more completed purchases against a control group. Its technical account describes a transformer feeding learned credit representations into an XGBoost risk model.

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Why it matters

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What remains uncertain

The results and explainability claims are company-reported. Public materials do not provide an independent audit or enough information to reproduce lifetime profitability and subgroup outcomes.

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