Research
On-device research index

arXiv research

A locally-built, LLM-digested index of recent arXiv papers in quant finance, geometry/topology, and statistical ML — keyword search served straight from SQLite on this machine.

168,878 papers · 148 categories

Trend · papers per month

6.3%12.5%18.8%25.0% · Oct 199319922001200920172026
48 results for fraud analysis

TimeTrail detects financial fraud patterns through temporal correlation analysis.

problem Detecting and explaining complex financial fraud patterns.
method Temporal data enrichment, dynamic correlation analysis, interpretable pattern visualization.
result TimeTrail outperforms conventional methods in accuracy and interpretability.

Model detects insurance fraud using social network analysis.

problem Fraudulent insurance claims by exaggeration or intentional damage.
method Network construction linking claims and parties, BiRank algorithm for fraud score computation, feature extraction from network and claims, supervised model building.
result Network features improve fraud detection performance.

Accounting fraud is a global concern representing a significant threat to the financial system stability due to the resulting diminishing of the market confidence and trust of regulatory authorities. Several tricks can be used to commit accounting fraud, hence the need for non-static regulatory interventions that take …

2018-05-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Many online platforms have deployed anti-fraud systems to detect and prevent fraudulent activities. However, there is usually a gap between the time that a user commits a fraudulent action and the time that the user is suspended by the platform. How to detect fraudsters in time is a challenging problem. Most of the exi…

2018-09-12abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper examines anomalies and frauds in blockchain networks and proposes detection techniques.

problem Anomalies and frauds undermine blockchain networks' integrity and security.
method Statistical and machine learning methods, game-theoretic solutions, digital forensics, reputation-based systems, and risk assessment techniques.
result Practical applications and insights for enhancing blockchain network security.

A CBR approach helps fraud analysts trust machine learning predictions.

problem Understanding the trustworthiness of machine learning predictions for fraud analysts.
method Case-based reasoning (CBR) approach to visualize similar previous instances and their local post-hoc explanations.
result Empirically, the visualization of similar previous instances is useful and easy to use for fraud analysts.

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.

InfDetect detects e-commerce insurance fraud using graph analysis.

problem Detecting fraudulent claims in e-commerce insurance with multiple parties involved.
method Developed a large-scale fraud detection system InfDetect using graph-based approaches.
result InfDetect successfully detected thousands of fraudulent claims and saved money daily.

Enhanced loss function boosts fraud detection in auto insurance claims.

problem Class imbalance in auto insurance fraud detection.
method Structured three-stage training framework integrating convex surrogate, non-convex intermediate, and standard focal loss.
result Improves minority-class F1-scores and AUC compared to baseline methods.

This review examines deep learning in financial fraud detection over 5 years.

problem Improving deep learning techniques for financial fraud detection.
method Systematic literature review of 57 studies using performance metrics.
result Deep learning models enhance fraud detection across various financial domains.

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.

Model predicts internal fraud in retail banking is cyclical and influenced by corruption.

problem Predicting and mitigating internal fraud losses in retail banking.
method Developed a dynamic model considering internal factors and macroeconomic indicators.
result Internal fraud losses are pro-cyclical and positively affected by corruption perceptions.

New taxonomy reveals different detection limits for various types of fraud.

problem Existing fraud detection treats all fraud as the same, ignoring its diverse forms.
method Introduced an observation-mechanism taxonomy with five fraud classes.
result Separate estimation by fraud class outperforms pooled estimation.

GNN-CL model improves financial fraud detection using graph neural networks and reinforcement learning.

problem Complex financial fraud detection with high false positive rates.
method Combines GNN, CNN, LSTM, and MLPS to analyze transaction patterns and uses reinforcement learning to filter out noise.
result GNN-CL outperforms existing methods in financial fraud detection, reducing false positives.

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.

Quantum Support Vector Classifier outperforms other QML models in finance fraud detection.

problem Detecting financial fraud using Quantum Machine Learning.
method Comparative study of four QML models: Quantum Support Vector Classifier, Variational Quantum Classifier, Estimator QNN, and Sampler QNN.
result Quantum Support Vector Classifier achieved the highest F1 scores (0.98) for fraud and non-fraud classes.

EnsemFDet detects fraud by solving subproblems on small graphs, scaling up e-commerce fraud detection.

problem Detecting and preventing fraud in e-commerce, especially in large-scale bipartite graphs.
method EnsemFDet uses an ensemble approach to decompose the problem into smaller subproblems, solving them in parallel.
result EnsemFDet is up to 100x faster than state-of-the-art methods while maintaining high accuracy.

Although shill bidding is a common auction fraud, it is however very tough to detect. Due to the unavailability and lack of training data, in this study, we build a high-quality labeled shill bidding dataset based on recently collected auctions from eBay. Labeling shill biding instances with multidimensional features i…

2018-08-22abs ↗pdf ↗

SemiGNN detects financial fraud using social relations and multi-view data.

problem Detecting fraud in financial services with limited labeled data and complex interactions.
method Semi-supervised graph attentive network with hierarchical attention mechanism.
result SemiGNN achieves better accuracy on fraud detection tasks compared to state-of-the-art methods.

Deep semi-supervised anomaly detection improves fraud detection in financial markets.

problem Detecting fraud in high-frequency financial data with limited labeled examples.
method Evaluation of Deep Semi-Supervised Anomaly Detection (Deep SAD) on proprietary limit order book data.
result Deep SAD significantly improves fraud detection accuracy with minimal labeled data.

Bayesian framework improves financial risk management and compliance.

problem Uncertainty in financial risk forecasting and compliance.
method Integrated Bayesian analytics framework for precise uncertainty quantification.
result Proposed DLM model produces more accurate VaR estimates compared to baseline models.

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.

FraudTransformer detects payment fraud by preserving event order and time gaps.

problem Detecting payment fraud in real-world banking streams with irregular time gaps.
method Augments a GPT-style architecture with a dedicated time encoder and a learned positional encoder.
result FraudTransformer outperforms classical and transformer baselines, achieving highest AUROC and PRAUC on held-out test set.

AI-driven framework improves enterprise financial audits and risk identification.

problem Manual auditing is inefficient and limited by data complexity and evolving fraud tactics.
method Machine learning algorithms (SVM, RF, KNN) applied to a dataset of audit project counts, violations, and fraud instances.
result Random Forest achieves best performance with F1-score of 0.9012, identifying fraud and compliance anomalies.

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.

Fraud detection is a difficult problem that can benefit from predictive modeling. However, the verification of a prediction is challenging; for a single insurance policy, the model only provides a prediction score. We present a case study where we reflect on different instance-level model explanation techniques to aid …

2018-06-19abs ↗pdf ↗