arXiv AI

DeXposure-FM: A Time-series, Graph Foundation Model for Credit Exposures and Stability on Decentralized Financial Networks

arXiv:2602. 03981v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Credit exposure in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is often implicit and token-mediated, creating a dense web of inter-protocol dependencies.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 28

Graph-Based Modeling of Financial Volatility Dynamics

The paper introduces the Finance‑Aware Graph Spatio‑Temporal Network (FA‑GSTN) for forecasting realized volatility by treating the implied volatility surface as a dynamic graph. Nodes represent grid points on the surface, with edges capturing adaptive intra‑day spatial and explicit inter‑day temporal relationships, while finance‑aware node features (e.g., option Greeks) and a multi‑scale temporal smoothing gate address high‑frequency noise. Experiments on a large equity options dataset show FA‑GSTN achieves state‑of‑the‑art predictive accuracy (R² up to 0.473) and outperforms Vision Transformer baselines even with only one year of training data, demonstrating robustness during market stress.

By Chuanzhen Wang, Alice Zhang, Wei Chen, Michael Brown
arXiv AI
Sep 11

Cyber-Financial Contagion: Modeling the Propagation of an AI Vendor Compromise Through the Banking System

The paper examines how a breach of a single AI vendor—used by banks for fraud screening, credit decisions, AML triage, customer analytics, and internal support—can spread through operational, informational, and financial links, ultimately causing losses that resemble a traditional banking crisis. It introduces a four‑layer heterogeneous network linking AI vendors, banks, interbank exposures, and customer accounts, and presents CFC‑Prop, a stochastic epidemic‑and‑clearing model that reproduces heavy‑tailed loss distributions and sensitivity to patch latency on a synthetic dataset of 60 vendors, 220 banks, and 1,400 interbank exposures. Additionally, the authors develop CFC‑GNN, an early‑warning graph‑based model that predicts high‑cascade‑risk vendors with AUROC 0.82 and AUPRC 0.60, and they release all code, data, and scripts for reproducibility.

By Alex Leytes
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 30

FinInvest-GTCN: Explainable Graph-Temporal-Causal Modeling for Risk-Aware Investment Decision Optimization

arXiv:2606. 28933v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Venture capital (VC) investment decisions face distinct challenges, such as multi-source heterogeneous data, non-stationary time series, and the demand for explainable predictions in high-stakes, low-data settings.

By Junyan Tan, Yifan Li, Minghao Wang, Zihan Chen, Haoyu Zhang