Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Customer Churn Prediction in Telecommunications: A Framework for CRM Integration

arXiv cs.AIAugust 28, 2026en

arXiv:2608.26151v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Subscriber attrition is a costly, persistent challenge for telecommunications providers, with monthly churn of roughly 1.9% in mature markets eroding billions in revenue annually. Predictive models can flag at-risk customers accurately, yet they are routinely excluded from frontline CRM workflows because high-performing ensemble and non-linear architectures are opaque: a retention specialist cannot design a personalised intervention from a probability score alone, without knowing why a subscriber is at risk. This paper addresses that gap. We benchmark four classifiers--Logistic Regression, Random Forest, XGBoost, and LightGBM--on the IBM Telco

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