TLMG4Eth combines language and graph models for Ethereum fraud detection.
problem Current fraud detection methods fail to consider semantic and similarity patterns in Ethereum transactions.
method TLMG4Eth uses a transaction language model and graph-based methods to capture semantic, similarity, and structural features.
result TLMG4Eth detects anomalies in Ethereum transactions more effectively than existing methods.
LineMVGNN improves AML detection by integrating multi-view graph learning.
problem Ineffective and scalable AML systems using rule-based methods.
method LineMVGNN combines multi-view graph neural networks with line-graph features.
result LineMVGNN outperforms state-of-the-art methods in detecting money laundering.
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.
This paper presents a large Bitcoin transaction graph dataset for research.
problem Lack of a comprehensive dataset for Bitcoin research.
method Created a large-scale transactions graph dataset with timestamps.
result Established a large publicly available dataset for advanced research.
Framework detects suspicious money laundering flows in large transaction graphs.
problem Detecting money laundering in large, complex transaction networks.
method Adapted framework for domain-specific constraints, including weighting method for edge significance.
result Framework outperforms state-of-the-art solutions in efficiency and effectiveness for large datasets.
A novel method uses blockchain transaction graphs for Bitcoin price prediction.
problem Insufficient effectiveness of manually designed features for Bitcoin price prediction.
method Mining patterns from Bitcoin transactions using k-order transaction graphs and proposing a novel prediction method.
result The proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art Bitcoin price prediction methods.
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…
Financial transactions can be considered edges in a heterogeneous graph between entities sending money and entities receiving money. For financial institutions, such a graph is likely large (with millions or billions of edges) while also sparsely connected. It becomes challenging to apply machine learning to such large…
Research predicts XRP price anomalies using graph topologies.
problem Forecasting extreme price movements in XRP cryptoasset.
method Analyzed topological features of XRP transaction graphs.
result Topological features indicate extreme price surges.
With emergence of blockchain technologies and the associated cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, understanding network dynamics behind Blockchain graphs has become a rapidly evolving research direction. Unlike other financial networks, such as stock and currency trading, blockchain based cryptocurrencies have the entire…
In this paper, we study the possibility of inferring early warning indicators (EWIs) for periods of extreme bitcoin price volatility using features obtained from Bitcoin daily transaction graphs. We infer the low-dimensional representations of transaction graphs in the time period from 2012 to 2017 using Bitcoin blockc…
The cryptocurrency market is a very huge market without effective supervision. It is of great importance for investors and regulators to recognize whether there are market manipulation and its manipulation patterns. This paper proposes an approach to mine the transaction networks of exchanges for answering this questio…
Hybrid model uses GNNs and pathfinding to optimize portfolio rebalancing costs.
problem Optimizing transaction costs in dynamic portfolio rebalancing.
method Combines GNNs for cost prediction and Dijkstra's algorithm for pathfinding.
result Significantly reduces transaction costs in financial asset graphs.
Blockchain technology and, in particular, blockchain-based cryptocurrencies offer us information that has never been seen before in the financial world. In contrast to fiat currencies, all transactions of crypto-currencies and crypto-tokens are permanently recorded on distributed ledgers and are publicly available. As …
Study characterizes Uniswap v3 liquidity pools using transaction graphs and identifies ideal trading conditions.
problem Computational expense in analyzing the full Uniswap v3 ecosystem.
method Extracted and analyzed a sub-universe of liquidity pools, using transaction graphs and graph2vec algorithm.
result Identified seven clusters of liquidity takers with similar trading preferences and introduced an ideal crypto law.
RevTrack identifies suspicious subgraphs on blockchain for AML.
problem Detecting money laundering in cryptocurrency transactions.
method Graph-based machine learning, tracking initial senders and final receivers.
result RevClassify outperforms state-of-the-art subgraph classification techniques in cost and accuracy.
Credit networks represent a way of modeling trust between entities in a network. Nodes in the network print their own currency and trust each other for a certain amount of each other's currency. This allows the network to serve as a decentralized payment infrastructure---arbitrary payments can be routed through the net…
New method improves blockchain analysis by handling temporal changes and scalability.
problem Limited focus on evolving nature and scalability of blockchain transaction networks.
method Incremental approach with Metropolis-Hastings random walks.
result Comparable performance in node classification tasks with reduced computational overhead.
Anti-money laundering (AML) regulations play a critical role in safeguarding financial systems, but bear high costs for institutions and drive financial exclusion for those on the socioeconomic and international margins. The advent of cryptocurrency has introduced an intriguing paradox: pseudonymity allows criminals to…
Enhances Ponzi scheme detection on Ethereum using time-aware metapaths.
problem Lack of temporal information in heterogeneous transaction graphs.
method Time-aware Metapath Feature Augmentation (TMFAug) module.
result Significant performance improvements in Ponzi scheme detection.
Inspection-L detects illicit cryptocurrency transactions using GNNs and self-supervised learning.
problem Detect illicit cryptocurrency transactions for anti-money laundering.
method Graph Neural Network (GNN) framework based on self-supervised Deep Graph Infomax (DGI) and Graph Isomorphism Network (GIN) with supervised learning algorithms.
result Inspection-L outperforms state-of-the-art methods in key classification metrics.
Financial institutions obtain enormous amounts of data about user transactions and money transfers, which can be considered as a large graph dynamically changing in time. In this work, we focus on the task of predicting new interactions in the network of bank clients and treat it as a link prediction problem. We propos…
This paper uses graph neural networks to predict SME default risk using transaction and ownership networks.
problem Predicting credit risk for SMEs facing limited financial histories and collateral constraints.
method Graph Neural Networks applied to multilayer network data of SME transactions and ownership.
result Combining network data with traditional data improves credit scoring and models contagion risk.
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 Bitcoin transaction graph is a public data structure organized as transactions between addresses, each associated with a logical entity. In this work, we introduce a complete probabilistic model of the Bitcoin Blockchain. We first formulate a set of conditional dependencies induced by the Bitcoin protocol at the bl…
Paper uses GANs to simulate consumer transactions with SKU constraints.
problem Simulating realistic consumer transactions in retail systems.
method Integrates GANs with consumer behavior and SKU availability constraints.
result Demonstrates enhanced realism in simulated transactions.
A key challenge for Bitcoin cryptocurrency holders, such as startups using ICOs to raise funding, is managing their FX risk. Specifically, a misinformed decision to convert Bitcoin to fiat currency could, by itself, cost USD millions. In contrast to financial exchanges, Blockchain based crypto-currencies expose the ent…
Study develops a multi-pair trading strategy using graph clustering and machine learning.
problem Improving risk-adjusted returns and reducing transaction costs in US equities market.
method Statistical arbitrage, graph clustering algorithms, Kelly criterion, machine learning classifiers.
result Optimal signal detection and risk management techniques outperformed benchmarks.
We study the problem of end-to-end learning from complex multigraphs with potentially very large numbers of edges between two vertices, each edge labeled with rich information. Examples range from communication networks to flights between airports or financial transaction graphs. We propose Latent-Graph Convolutional N…
This paper presents a simple method for a posteriori (historical) multi-variate multi-stage optimal trading under transaction costs and a diversification constraint. Starting from a given amount of money in some currency, we analyze the stage-wise optimal allocation over a time horizon with potential investments in mul…
This paper creates a comprehensive BTC transaction network dataset spanning 15 years.
problem Lack of a full-history BTC graph and network property dataset.
method Thorough analysis of BTC transaction network, creating a dataset and investigating decentralization.
result First systematic investigation of BTC's asset decentralization and design of decentralization degrees.
GNN improves financial risk detection in dynamic networks.
problem Complex, changing financial networks make traditional risk identification methods ineffective.
method Graph Neural Networks (GNN) for embedded representation learning of financial data.
result GNN enhances the detection of hidden risks and abnormal behaviors in financial networks.
Mobile payment such as Alipay has been widely used in our daily lives. To further promote the mobile payment activities, it is important to run marketing campaigns under a limited budget by providing incentives such as coupons, commissions to merchants. As a result, incentive optimization is the key to maximizing the c…
Interaction graphs, such as those recording emails between individuals or transactions between institutions, tend to be sparse yet structured, and often grow in an unbounded manner. Such behavior can be well-captured by structured, nonparametric edge-exchangeable graphs. However, such exchangeable models necessarily ig…
It has been demonstrated that adversarial graphs, i.e., graphs with imperceptible perturbations added, can cause deep graph models to fail on node/graph classification tasks. In this paper, we extend adversarial graphs to the problem of community detection which is much more difficult. We focus on black-box attack and …
Method extracts taint flows to classify Bitcoin mining pools.
problem Understanding pseudonymous Bitcoin actors and their transactions.
method Taint analysis and graph embedding methods applied to taint flows.
result Taint flows from the same period show high similarity.
Graph learning categorizes DeFi services into similar functionalities.
problem Identifying similar financial services in decentralized finance protocols.
method Graph representation learning (GRL) to categorize smart contract blocks into clusters.
result Purity of clustering reaches .888 in the best-case scenario.
Method finds multiple noisy graph templates in large graphs.
problem Finding multiple graph templates in noisy large graphs.
method Iteratively penalizes node-pair similarity matrix in matched filter algorithm.
result Method can sequentially discover multiple templates under mild model conditions.
In general, anomaly detection is the problem of distinguishing between normal data samples with well defined patterns or signatures and those that do not conform to the expected profiles. Financial transactions, customer reviews, social media posts are all characterized by relational information. In these networks, fra…
New smart contract mechanisms evade traditional AML systems by decoupling transaction roles.
problem Current AML systems fail to track economic value migration in composable smart contracts.
method Introduce PEB separation and state-mediated value migration to demonstrate how traditional tracing fails.
result Transfer-layer observation is incomplete and causally ambiguous in composable smart contracts.
EWS-GCN improves credit scoring by analyzing money transfer connections.
problem Improving credit scoring in transactional banking data.
method Edge Weight-Shared Graph Convolutional Network (EWS-GCN) combining graph and recurrent neural networks.
result EWS-GCN outperforms state-of-the-art models in credit scoring.
Proposes a comprehensive framework for financial product lead recommendations using graph representation learning and link prediction.
problem Challenges in surface lead recommendations for financial products due to changing market scenarios and difficulty in capturing holder's mindset.
method Bi-partite graph representation of financial holders and funds, GraphSage model for learning representations, link prediction model for ranking recommendations.
result The proposed graph ML solution outperforms baseline by 42%, 22%, and 14% in hit rate for top-k recommendations (50, 100, 200) and 18%, 19%, and 18% on unseen holders.
This research develops heuristics to detect CoinJoin transactions on Bitcoin blockchain.
problem Compromised privacy in Bitcoin transactions due to CoinJoin.
method Analyzed open-source CoinJoin implementations to develop heuristics.
result Refined heuristics for identifying CoinJoin transactions on the blockchain.
Many prediction problems can be phrased as inferences over local neighborhoods of graphs. The graph represents the interaction between entities, and the neighborhood of each entity contains information that allows the inferences or predictions. We present an approach for applying machine learning directly to such graph…
Study improves fraud detection in e-commerce with a stacked model combining CNNs, GNNs, and confidence gating.
problem Detecting credit card fraud in online transactions.
method Stacking approach with attention and confidence-driven layers, using DOWA and IOWA operators.
result The method achieves high accuracy and robust generalization in CCF detection.
Investment strategy optimized in markets with transaction costs and search delays.
problem Maximizing wealth in an illiquid market with transaction costs and search frictions.
method Characterized no-trade region and provided asymptotic expansions of value function for small transaction costs.
result The effects of transaction costs are more pronounced in illiquid markets.
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.
Many irregular domains such as social networks, financial transactions, neuron connections, and natural language constructs are represented using graph structures. In recent years, a variety of graph neural networks (GNNs) have been successfully applied for representation learning and prediction on such graphs. In many…