arXiv Machine Learning

RGH-GNN : Risk-Gated Heterogeneous Graph Neural Network for Financial Fraud Detection

arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 9

Evi-VN: Hard Region Guided Virtual Node Evidence Injection for GNN-Based Fraud Detection

Evi-VN is a new framework for graph neural network (GNN) fraud detection that injects evidence from diverse modalities—structured records, text, images, and audio—into virtual node representations. It targets shared hard regions where standard GNNs fail to distinguish well‑disguised fraudsters from legitimate users, correcting blind spots without disrupting reliable predictions. Experiments on bot, fake‑review, refund‑evidence, and telecom‑fraud datasets demonstrate its effectiveness across generic, fraud‑specific, and unseen GNNs.

By Jiran Tao, Yifan Wu, Binyan Jiang
arXiv Machine Learning
3d ago

Leveraging Time-Series Foundation Models for Financial Crime Detection

The paper introduces Temporal-Context Edge Enrichment (TCEE), a framework that uses frozen time‑series foundation models (TSFMs) to summarise each account’s transaction history and enrich transaction representations with temporal context. These enriched edges can be directly scored for classification or used as features in a graph neural network (GNN). Across six AMLWorld datasets, TCEE improves PR‑AUC by an average of 10.8% over the best baseline and trains 6.0× faster; when combined with a GNN, it yields an additional 4.8% improvement on smaller datasets and a 14.5% gain on an Ethereum phishing dataset.

By Danae Natalie Savvidi, H. \c{C}a\u{g}r{\i} Bilgi, Kubilay Atasu, Arie van Deursen