Accurate and explainable mortality forecasting with the LocalGLMnet

Francesca Perla, Ronald Richman, Salvatore Scognamiglio and Mario V. Wüthrich

Scandinavian Actuarial Journal, 2024, vol. 2024, issue 7, 739-761

Abstract: Recently, accurate forecasting of mortality rates with deep learning models has been investigated in several papers in the actuarial literature. Most of the models proposed to date are not explainable, making it difficult to communicate the basis on which mortality forecasts have been made. We adapt the LocalGLMnet of Richman, R. & Wüthrich, M. V. (2023). [LocalGLMnet: Interpretable deep learning for tabular data. Scandinavian Actuarial Journal 2023(1), 71–95] to produce explainable forecasts of mortality rates using locally connected neural networks, and we show that these can be interpreted as autoregressive time-series models of mortality rates. These forecasts are shown to be highly accurate on the Human Mortality Database and the United States Mortality Database. Finally, we show how regularizing the LocalGLMnet can produce improved forecasts, and that by applying auto-encoders, observations of mortality rates can be denoised to improve forecasts even further.

Date: 2024
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