Neural nets analyze Magic: the Gathering cards for text and images.
problem Classify Magic: the Gathering cards into multiple categories.
method Used Convolutional and Recurrent Neural Networks to analyze card text and images.
result Developed a method to generate card text matching an input image.
We introduce a new virtual environment for simulating a card game known as "Big 2". This is a four-player game of imperfect information with a relatively complicated action space (being allowed to play 1,2,3,4 or 5 card combinations from an initial starting hand of 13 cards). As such it poses a challenge for many curre…
CQL tackles combinatorial actions in Dou Di Zhu, outperforming state-of-the-art methods.
problem Handling combinatorial actions in Dou Di Zhu, a complex card game.
method Combinational Q-learning (CQL) using a two-stage network and order-invariant max-pooling.
result CQL outperforms naive Q-learning and A3C in Dou Di Zhu.
Study Figgie card game strategies using agent-based simulation.
problem Analyze strategies for Figgie card game and market behavior.
method Develop agent-based discrete-event market simulation to test strategies.
result Fundamentalist strategy is profit-maximizing in all tested combinations.
Generative Adversarial Networks improve credit card fraud detection.
problem Detecting fraudulent credit card transactions accurately.
method Using GANs to generate synthetic data for oversampling.
result Wasserstein-GAN produces more realistic fraudulent transactions.
Cross-dimensional neural networks improve AI in Catan game.
problem Challenging to build AI agents for Catan game using RL.
method Introduced cross-dimensional neural networks to handle game complexities.
result RL agent outperforms best heuristic agent in Catan.
Study on blackjack reinforcement learning performance with varying deck sizes.
problem Understanding reinforcement learning in a stochastic environment like blackjack.
method q-learning algorithm applied to optimal play in a blackjack simulator.
result Rate of learning convergence of q-learning algorithm varies with deck size.
This paper tackles credit card fraud detection using graph-based learning methods.
problem Detecting credit card fraud to reduce financial losses.
method Graph p-Laplacian based semi-supervised learning combined with undersampling techniques.
result Graph p-Laplacian semi-supervised learning outperforms current methods.
Study evaluates SHAP for credit card default model consistency.
problem Model transparency and fairness in credit card default prediction models.
method Evaluates SHAP stability in credit card default prediction models via a case study.
result SHAP consistency is related to variable importance level.
ARIMA model detects credit card fraud in unbalanced datasets.
problem Unsupervised credit card fraud detection in unbalanced datasets.
method ARIMA model applied to customer spending patterns for anomaly detection.
result ARIMA model outperforms benchmark anomaly detection methods.
Study optimizes classifiers for credit card mail campaigns and default prediction.
problem Optimizing classifiers for credit card mail campaigns and default prediction.
method Three distinct models: response, risk, and response-risk. Optimized various performance metrics.
result Random Forest classifier achieves highest accuracy (83.2%) in multi-class response-risk model.
Paper quantifies dataset shift for credit card fraud detection.
problem Change in purchase behavior over time affects fraud detection accuracy.
method Measures day-to-day dataset shift using classification efficiency and clustering.
result Improves credit card fraud detection by incorporating dataset shift knowledge.
Standard economic theory, starting with Adam Smith's invisible hand, holds that those who trade for their own selfish motives of maximizing their private preferences may contribute more to the public wealth than those who claim altruistic motives. Under restrictive conditions, this has been shown to result from a self-…
Enhances fraud detection with multiple HMM perspectives.
problem Detecting credit card fraud from sequential transactions.
method Modeling credit card transactions from three perspectives (card-holder, terminal, amount/time) using HMMs and combining likelihoods as features.
result 15% increase in precision-recall AUC compared to state-of-the-art methods.
A new approach models credit card transactions using HMMs to detect fraud.
problem Detecting credit card fraud using isolated event analysis.
method Model sequences from three perspectives using HMMs and combine likelihoods as features.
result Improved fraud detection effectiveness compared to state-of-the-art methods.
CARD detects treatment responders with machine learning and adjustment.
problem Identifying responders in non-random treatment settings.
method Conformal prediction, machine learning, propensity score adjustment.
result High power responder detection in various scenarios.
Model predicts missing boarding stops in smart card data.
problem Missing boarding stop information in public transport datasets.
method Supervised machine learning with ordinal classification.
result Proposed method significantly outperforms existing imputation methods.
Bayesian model predicts public transport usage during events.
problem Difficulty in predicting transportation disruptions during special events.
method Bayesian additive model with Gaussian process components, using smart card records and web data.
result Model outperforms baselines by up to 26% in R2 and explains individual event components.
Expert system predicts credit card charge-offs using macroeconomic indicators.
problem Managing charge-off rates in the credit card industry.
method Developed an expert system using machine learning and macroeconomic indicators.
result Achieved mean squared error values of 1.15E-03 and 1.04E-03.
We present a model of credit card profitability, assuming that the card-holder always pays the full outstanding balance. The motivation for the model is to calculate an optimal credit limit, which requires an expression for the expected outstanding balance. We derive its Laplace transform, assuming that purchases are m…
Semi-supervised GANs with log-signatures improve credit card fraud detection.
problem Detecting fraud in large, complex financial transaction data streams.
method Conditional GANs with Bayesian inference and log-signatures for robust feature encoding.
result Consistent improvements over benchmarks in global and domain-specific metrics.
CARD models predict the distribution of continuous or categorical responses.
problem Uncertainty in predicting continuous or categorical responses.
method Combines denoising diffusion and conditional mean estimation.
result Outperforms state-of-the-art methods in conditional distribution prediction.
The study reveals fundamental limits of fraud detection in card payment networks.
problem Fraud detection in card payment networks is challenging due to structural information impairments.
method Formalized card authorization as a sequential decision problem with delayed feedback, derived minimax regret lower bound.
result Improving issuer reporting quality or reducing censorship can yield larger reductions in the regret floor than increasing model complexity.
Paper predicts in-situ metro passenger density using smart card data.
problem Crowd management in metro systems.
method Statistical models and EM algorithm for time-dependent OD matrix and travel time cost estimation.
result Accurate prediction of in-situ passenger density for future time points.
Research examines motivations and factors influencing retailers' payment method choices.
problem Understanding motivations and factors affecting retailers' payment method choices.
method Qualitative and quantitative analysis of various factors including regulatory constraints, merchant service providers, and demographic variables.
result Lower interchange fees and regulatory constraints make card payment adoption financially feasible for merchants.
This paper summarizes AI methods for detecting credit card fraud.
problem Detecting credit card fraud from millions of transactions.
method Rule-based and AI approaches, addressing imbalanced datasets, real-time scenarios, and feature engineering.
result Summarizes state-of-the-art AI methods for fraud detection.
Study evaluates AD methods for fraud detection in online credit card payments.
problem Fraud detection in online credit card payments using anomaly detection methods.
method Assessed several recent anomaly detection methods and compared them with standard supervised learning methods.
result LightGBM outperforms other methods but is more sensitive to distribution shifts.
CaT-GNN improves credit card fraud detection by integrating causal reasoning into GNNs.
problem Credit card fraud detection overlooks causal structure of transactions.
method CaT-GNN combines causal invariant learning and temporal graph neural networks.
result CaT-GNN outperforms existing methods on various datasets.
Money flow models are essential tools to understand different economical phenomena, like saving propensities and wealth distributions. In spite of their importance, most of them are based on synthetic transaction networks with simple topologies, e.g. random or scale-free ones, as the characterisation of real networks i…
CARDS improves decoding efficiency and alignment quality for LLMs.
problem Efficiency bottlenecks in decoding-time alignment for LLMs.
method Cascade Reward Sampling (CARDS) with segment-level rejection sampling and uncertainty-based segmentation.
result Significant improvement in decoding efficiency and alignment quality.
Paper proposes a DAE algorithm to improve credit card fraud detection.
problem Imbalanced data classification problem in credit card fraud detection.
method Proposes a denoising autoencoder neural network (DAE) algorithm to oversample and denoise minority class samples.
result Improves classification accuracy of minority class samples in imbalanced datasets.
Study examines fraud detection methods for credit cards with limited data.
problem Data imbalance in credit card fraud detection.
method Assesses different sampling methods and machine learning algorithms.
result Monte Carlo analysis shows random undersampling outperforms SMOTE in fraud cost reduction.
Bayesian Neural Networks improve credit card default prediction and provide feature importance.
problem Lack of interpretability and uncertainty measures in neural network models for credit risk.
method Developed and compared BNNs trained by Gaussian approximation and Hybrid Monte Carlo.
result BNNs with Automatic Relevance Determination outperform normal BNNs in credit card default prediction.
The paper proposes a method to detect credit card fraud using sparse Gaussian approximations.
problem Detecting credit card fraud in financial institutions.
method Sparse Gaussian classification method with pseudo or inducing inputs and different kernels and inducing points.
result The RBF kernel with a higher number of inducing points achieved the best accuracy.
Investigates the cost-effectiveness of security features in smart card chips.
problem Costs of adding security features to smart card chips.
method Examines production phases, costs, and security features.
result Security features are worth the cost due to potential damages from attacks.
Stablecoins offer efficient settlement but externalize costs and risks.
problem Comparing stablecoins to card networks in retail payments.
method Unified analytical framework (CLEAR) across five dimensions.
result Stablecoins are advantageous in closed-loop and high-friction contexts but structurally disadvantaged as open-loop instruments.
For any point on a surface, it's critical with an odd number of points, except on a sphere.
problem Characterizing critical points on Riemannian surfaces.
method Analyzing metrics and distances on surfaces.
result Cardinality of critical points is bounded for different surfaces.
Adapts agent strategies on-the-fly for better cross-play in cooperative settings.
problem Cross-play issues between self-play agents and unseen partners.
method Adapts agent strategies using posterior belief updates via Gibbs sampling.
result Achieves strong cross-play in the Hanabi game without prior knowledge of partners' strategies.
BreachRadar detects points-of-compromise in bank transactions to prevent fraud.
problem Detecting and preventing bank transaction fraud caused by data breaches.
method A distributed alternating algorithm that assigns probabilities to different locations being compromised.
result BreachRadar achieves over 90% precision and recall in detecting compromised cards.
Study uses RL to optimize credit card limits, achieving better results than traditional methods.
problem Optimizing credit card limit adjustments in banking.
method Reinforcement learning with offline learning strategy.
result Double Q-learning agent outperforms other strategies in generating optimal policy.
Assessment of risk levels for existing credit accounts is important to the implementation of bank policies and offering financial products. This paper uses cluster analysis of behaviour of credit card accounts to help assess credit risk level. Account behaviour is modelled parametrically and we then implement the behav…
The paper assesses fairness in AI for financial services, using statistical methods.
problem Unintentional bias and insufficient model validation in AI applications.
method Statistical methods for imbalanced data treatment and bias mitigation.
result Fairness evaluation metrics applied to a credit card default payment example.
Approach detects outliers in large datasets for credit card fraud.
problem Lack of patterns and changing fraudulent patterns make fraud detection difficult.
method Ensemble of clustering methods to assign consistency scores to data points.
result Area under precision-recall curve is a better evaluation metric for outlier detection.
DAMVI algorithm improves imbalanced binary classification by adjusting weights of examples and classifiers.
problem Imbalanced binary classification tasks where minority class is underrepresented.
method DAMVI algorithm increases positive example weights and optimizes classifier weights using PAC-Bayesian C-Bound.
result DAMVI outperforms state-of-the-art models on various imbalanced datasets.
Enhances credit card limit adjustments by considering treatment uncertainty and prediction criteria.
problem Optimal treatment selection under multitreatment scenarios.
method Proposes a comprehensive methodology incorporating conditional value-at-risk and prediction criterion for continuous outcomes.
result Significantly improved policy performance in credit card limit adjustments.
An adversarial detector identifies anomalous sequences in sequential data.
problem Detecting anomalous sequences in one-class settings with limited data.
method Solves a minimax problem to find an optimal detector against the worst-case sequences from a generator, using marked point process model.
result Demonstrated good performance on simulations and real credit card fraud datasets.
Model predicts stock market volatility, leading to successful trading.
problem Real-time risk management in stock markets.
method Algebraic theory of news impact, Bessel and hypergeometric functions, ML procedures.
result Trading system proved successful in historical and real-time experiments.
Adaptive Stress Testing detects financial fraud by simulating potential failures.
problem Detecting and mitigating vulnerabilities in financial systems.
method Developed a simplified model using historical data and reinforcement learning.
result Identified the most likely path to system failure and improved fraud detection.