Customer Churn Prediction on Structured Data Using FT-Transformer and Stacking Ensembles
Researchers propose a hybrid machine learning architecture combining FT-Transformer neural networks with XGBoost gradient boosting to predict customer churn in banking and subscription services. The ensemble method achieves superior performance metrics (62.10% F1, 0.861 AUC-ROC) compared to baseline models while addressing critical challenges in class imbalance and probability calibration.