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Supervising the Chain Ladder

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 15, 2026 · UTC

The chain ladder's volume-weighted pattern minimises an explicit loss function, yet is rarely booked as such. Practitioners adjust the pattern and record the final adjusted ratios. This paper treats the chain ladder's pattern selection as a supervised-learning problem. Judgement on pattern adjustments becomes a framework of defined penalties and hyperparameters on the chain ladder's loss function, treated here as an objective function in machine learning. Data weights are generalised with a decay and a power parameter for recency and volume weighting. Benchmark shaping and smoothness enter thr

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