Tryangle: Machine Learning Techniques for Chainladder Methods

Tryangle is an automatic chainladder reserving framework. It provides scoring and optimisation methods based on machine learning techniques to automatically select optimal parameters to minimise reserve prediction error. Tryangle is built on top of the chainladder reserving package.

Key Features

Tryangle is flexible and modular in how it can be applied:

• Optimising loss development factors
  • Use sklearn's GridSearchCV or RandomizedSearchCV to find the optimal method to calculate loss development factors
• Choosing between multiple reserving methods
  • Not sure if you should go with a basic chainladder, Bornhuetter-Ferguson, or Cape-Cod method? Let Tryangle decide.
• Finding the optimal blend of reserving methods
  • Or why not combine all three, and let Tryangle find the optimal blend.
• Using advanced optimisation methods
  • Not satisfied with an exhaustive grid search? Tryangle can be used with any optimisation framework, but we recommend Optuna

Basic Example

from sklearn.model_selection import GridSearchCV
from sklearn.pipeline import Pipeline
from tryangle import Development, CapeCod
from tryangle.metrics import neg_cdr_scorer
from tryangle.model_selection import TriangleSplit
from tryangle.utils.datasets import load_sample

X = load_sample("swiss")
tscv = TriangleSplit(n_splits=5)

param_grid = {
    "dev__n_periods": range(15, 20),
    "dev__drop_high": [True, False],
    "dev__drop_low": [True, False],
    "cc__decay": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 0.95],
}

pipe = Pipeline([("dev", Development()), ("cc", CapeCod())])

model = GridSearchCV(
    pipe, param_grid=param_grid, scoring=neg_cdr_scorer, cv=tscv, verbose=1, n_jobs=-1
)
model.fit(X, X)

Installation

Tryangle is available at the Python Package Index.

pip install tryangle

Tryangle supports Python 3.9.

Reference

Caesar Balona, Ronald Richman. 2021. The Actuary and IBNR Techniques: A Machine Learning Approach (SSRN).