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.
This paper improves fraud prevention rule sets in fintech by generating diverse rules and finding Pareto-optimal subsets.
problem Improving the quality and flexibility of fraud prevention rule sets in fintech.
method Introducing SpectralRules for generating diverse rules, and PORS for finding Pareto-optimal subsets.
result SpectralRules generates diverse rules that improve the quality of final rule subsets.
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.
Relational Graph Neural Networks improve fraud detection in Super-Apps.
problem Fraud detection in Super-Apps using alternative data.
method Relational Graph Convolutional Networks applied to heterogeneous graphs.
result Added value in fraud detection when considering alternative data and interactions.
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.
DBDT uses deep boosting decision trees for fraud detection.
problem Fraud detection in imbalanced data.
method Gradient boosting with neural networks (SDT), AUC maximization.
result DBDT significantly improves fraud detection performance.
Detects organized fraudsters in insurance claims with high precision.
problem Fraudulent insurance claims lead to heavy financial losses.
method Developed a novel data-driven procedure using graph learning algorithms.
result Achieves more than 80% precision in fraud detection.
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…
New method improves false-/true-positive-rate estimation in fraud detection with noisy labels.
problem Estimating FPR/TPR in fraud detection with class-conditional label noise.
method Directly cleaning model's validation data to de-correlate cleaning error with model scores.
result Improves accuracy of FPR/TPR estimates, especially in asymmetric label noise scenarios.
A hybrid ML model detects fraudulent transactions with high accuracy.
problem Detecting and preventing fraudulent credit card transactions.
method Intelligent combination of multiple algorithms with Grid search and IHT-LR.
result Achieves impressive accuracy rates of 99.66% for ENS model.
Paper introduces a new optimization method for imbalanced datasets.
problem Overfitting in imbalanced datasets, especially in financial fraud detection.
method Fractional Weyl Integral optimization algorithm.
result Significantly improved performance in financial fraud detection (40% improvement in PR-AUC).
Often the challenge associated with tasks like fraud and spam detection is the lack of all likely patterns needed to train suitable supervised learning models. This problem accentuates when the fraudulent patterns are not only scarce, they also change over time. Change in fraudulent pattern is because fraudsters contin…
We develop a model for contagion in reinsurance networks by which primary insurers' losses are spread through the network. Our model handles general reinsurance contracts, such as typical excess of loss contracts. We show that simpler models existing in the literature--namely proportional reinsurance--greatly underesti…
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.
Paper introduces a fraud detection dataset benchmark.
problem Unique challenges in fraud detection datasets.
method Compilation of publicly available fraud datasets.
result Demonstrates applications of the Fraud Dataset Benchmark.
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.
Interleaved RNNs detect fraud without costly features.
problem Real-time fraud detection in payment cards.
method Use interleaved sequence RNNs for fraud detection.
result Interleaved RNNs outperform state-of-the-art models in fraud detection.
Paper improves fraud detection in imbalanced financial data.
problem Detecting fraud in imbalanced financial datasets.
method Uses time-varying Poisson processes for fraud prediction.
result Method outperforms baseline in imbalanced data.
Online retail, eCommerce, frequently falls victim to fraud conducted by malicious customers (fraudsters) who obtain goods or services through deception. Fraud coordinated by groups of professional fraudsters that place several fraudulent orders to maximize their gain is referred to as organized fraud. Existing approach…
Graph Neural Networks improve financial fraud detection.
problem Complex financial transactions pose challenges in fraud detection.
method Unified framework of GNN methodologies applied to financial fraud detection.
result GNNs excel at capturing complex relational patterns in financial networks.
New method detects corporate fraud in noisy financial networks.
problem Detecting corporate fraud in rich yet noisy financial networks.
method Knowledge-enhanced GCN with Robust Two-stage Learning (KeGCN_R)
result KeGCN_R outperforms baselines in fraud detection effectiveness and robustness.
Novelty detection is the unsupervised problem of identifying anomalies in test data which significantly differ from the training set. Novelty detection is one of the classic challenges in Machine Learning and a core component of several research areas such as fraud detection, intrusion detection, medical diagnosis, dat…
New algorithm improves fraud detection by analyzing financial account relationships.
problem High false positive rates and missed detections in conventional fraud detection systems.
method Personalized PageRank (PPR) algorithm to capture social dynamics of fraud.
result Integrating PPR enhances fraud detection model's predictive power.
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.
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.
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.
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 …
The credit cards' fraud transactions detection is the important problem in machine learning field. To detect the credit cards's fraud transactions help reduce the significant loss of the credit cards' holders and the banks. To detect the credit cards' fraud transactions, data scientists normally employ the unsupervised…
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…
The automatic detection of frauds in banking transactions has been recently studied as a way to help the analysts finding fraudulent operations. Due to the availability of a human feedback, this task has been studied in the framework of active learning: the fraud predictor is allowed to sequentially call on an oracle. …
Credit card fraud detection is a very challenging problem because of the specific nature of transaction data and the labeling process. The transaction data is peculiar because they are obtained in a streaming fashion, they are strongly imbalanced and prone to non-stationarity. The labeling is the outcome of an active l…
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.
The identification of anomalies in temporal data is a core component of numerous research areas such as intrusion detection, fault prevention, genomics and fraud detection. This article provides an experimental comparison of the novelty detection problem applied to discrete sequences. The objective of this study is to …
Study uses stacked generalization to improve fraud detection algorithms.
problem Improving performance of algorithms in imbalanced fraud data sets.
method Two-step process combining machine learning methods and cross-validation.
result Improved performance metrics on resampled fraud data sets.
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.
Unsupervised model detects healthcare fraud from patient visit data.
problem Detecting fraudulent healthcare bills from patient visit data.
method Uses LSTM and seq2seq models for anomaly detection, normalizes scores with EDF.
result Improves anomaly detection for high class imbalance problems.
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.
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.
A new method detects financial fraud using graph transformers.
problem Detecting fraudulent transactions in financial data.
method Spatial-Temporal-Aware Graph Transformer (STA-GT) integrating GNNs and transformers.
result STA-GT outperforms general GNN models on financial fraud detection.
Machine learning has automated much of financial fraud detection, notifying firms of, or even blocking, questionable transactions instantly. However, data imbalance starves traditionally trained models of the content necessary to detect fraud. This study examines three separate factors of credit card fraud detection vi…
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 …
robROSE tackles imbalanced fraud data by creating synthetic samples and detecting outliers.
problem Detecting fraud in imbalanced data sets where fraud is a minority class.
method Combines oversampling techniques with robust statistics to handle anomalies.
result robROSE enhances fraud detection while ignoring anomalies.
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.
With the explosive growth of e-commerce and the booming of e-payment, detecting online transaction fraud in real time has become increasingly important to Fintech business. To tackle this problem, we introduce the TitAnt, a transaction fraud detection system deployed in Ant Financial, one of the largest Fintech compani…
QFNN-FFD uses quantum computing and FL for secure financial fraud detection.
problem Financial fraud detection in the financial sector.
method Quantum Federated Neural Network (QFNN-FFD) combining QML and FL.
result Achieves precision rates above 95% and robustness against noise.