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This paper proposes a novel SSA-CatBoost model, which mixes Sparrow Search Algorithm (SSA) and CatBoost to improve classification and prediction accuracy for credit rating. In terms of parameter tuning, the SSA-CatBoost optimization obtains the most optimal parameters by iterating and updating the sparrow\u2019s position, and utilize the optimal parameter to improve the accuracy of classification and prediction. In terms of feature selection, a novel wrapping method called\n                    <jats:italic>Recursive Feature Elimination algorithm is<\/jats:italic>\n                    adopted to reduce the adverse impact of noise data on the results, and further improves calculation efficiency. To evaluate the performance of the proposed SSA-CatBoost model, P2P lending datasets are employed to assess the prediction results, then the interpretable Shap package is used to explain the reason why the proposed model considers a sample as good or bad. 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