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Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly advanced code analysis tasks, yet they struggle to detect malicious behaviors fragmented across files, whose intricate dependencies easily get lost in the vast amount of benign code. We…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Hang Gao , Tao Peng , Baoquan Cui , Hong Huang , Fengge Wu , Junsuo Zhao , Jian Zhang

Money laundering is a major global problem, enabling criminal organisations to hide their ill-gotten gains and to finance further operations. Prevention of money laundering is seen as a high priority by many governments, however detection…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-08-03 David Savage , Qingmai Wang , Pauline Chou , Xiuzhen Zhang , Xinghuo Yu

Financial crime detection using graph learning improves financial safety and efficiency. However, criminals may commit financial crimes across different institutions to avoid detection, which increases the difficulty of detection for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Zhirui Pan , Guangzhong Wang , Zhaoning Li , Lifeng Chen , Yang Bian , Zhongyuan Lai

Today, money laundering (ML) poses a serious threat not only to financial institutions but also to the nations. This criminal activity is becoming more and more sophisticated and seems to have moved from the clichy of drug trafficking to…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-03-30 Nhien-An Le-Khac , Sammer Markos , Michael O'Neill , Anthony Brabazon , Tahar Kechadi

Anti-Money Laundering (AML) is a crucial task in ensuring the integrity of financial systems. One keychallenge in AML is identifying high-risk groups based on their behavior. Unsupervised learning, particularly clustering, is a promising…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-03-05 Ahmed N. Bakry , Almohammady S. Alsharkawy , Mohamed S. Farag , Kamal R. Raslan

The rise of digital ecosystems has exposed the financial sector to evolving abuse and criminal tactics that share operational knowledge and techniques both within and across different environments (fiat-based, crypto-assets, etc.).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Francesco Zola , Jon Ander Medina , Andrea Venturi , Amaia Gil , Raul Orduna

Graph fraud detection has garnered significant attention as Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have proven effective in modeling complex relationships within multimodal data. However, existing graph fraud detection methods typically use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Tairan Huang , Yili Wang , Qiutong Li , Changlong He , Jianliang Gao

Custom officials across the world encounter huge volumes of transactions. With increased connectivity and globalization, the customs transactions continue to grow every year. Associated with customs transactions is the customs fraud - the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Karandeep Singh , Yu-Che Tsai , Cheng-Te Li , Meeyoung Cha , Shou-De Lin

Graphs are mathematical tools that can be used to represent complex real-world interconnected systems, such as financial markets and social networks. Hence, machine learning (ML) over graphs has attracted significant attention recently.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 O. Deniz Kose , Yanning Shen , Gonzalo Mateos

Model pre-training on large text corpora has been demonstrated effective for various downstream applications in the NLP domain. In the graph mining domain, a similar analogy can be drawn for pre-training graph models on large graphs in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Han Xie , Da Zheng , Jun Ma , Houyu Zhang , Vassilis N. Ioannidis , Xiang Song , Qing Ping , Sheng Wang , Carl Yang , Yi Xu , Belinda Zeng , Trishul Chilimbi

We employ network embedding to detect money laundering in financial transaction networks. Using real anonymized banking data, we model over one million accounts as a directed graph and use it to refine previously detected suspicious cycles…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Anthony Bonato , Adam Szava

The use of cryptocurrencies has led to an increase in illicit activities such as money laundering, with traditional rule-based approaches becoming less effective in detecting and preventing such activities. In this paper, we propose a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Hrushyang Adloori , Vaishnavi Dasanapu , Abhijith Chandra Mergu

Anti-money laundering (AML) transaction monitoring generates large volumes of alerts that must be rapidly triaged by investigators under strict audit and governance constraints. While large language models (LLMs) can summarize heterogeneous…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Dorothy Torres , Wei Cheng , Ke Hu

As malware continues to become increasingly sophisticated, threatening, and evasive, malware detection systems must keep pace and become equally intelligent, powerful, and transparent. In this paper, we propose Assembly Flow Graph (AFG) to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Griffin Higgins , Roozbeh Razavi-Far , Hossein Shokouhinejad , Ali A. Ghorbani

Cyber-crimes have become a multi-billion-dollar industry in the recent years. Most cybercrimes/attacks involve deploying some type of malware. Malware that viciously targets every industry, every sector, every enterprise and even…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Marwan Omar

Malware detection has become a major concern due to the increasing number and complexity of malware. Traditional detection methods based on signatures and heuristics are used for malware detection, but unfortunately, they suffer from poor…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Tristan Bilot , Nour El Madhoun , Khaldoun Al Agha , Anis Zouaoui

Crime generates significant losses, both human and economic. Every year, billions of dollars are lost due to attacks, crimes, and scams. Surveillance video camera networks are generating vast amounts of data, and the surveillance staff can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Guillermo A. Martínez-Mascorro , José R. Abreu-Pederzini , José C. Ortiz-Bayliss , Hugo Terashima-Marín

Graphs are mathematical tools that can be used to represent complex real-world systems, such as financial markets and social networks. Hence, machine learning (ML) over graphs has attracted significant attention recently. However, it has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-22 O. Deniz Kose , Yanning Shen , Gonzalo Mateos

In this paper, we present "Graph Feature Preprocessor", a software library for detecting typical money laundering patterns in financial transaction graphs in real time. These patterns are used to produce a rich set of transaction features…

Link prediction is a fundamental problem in many graph based applications, such as protein-protein interaction prediction. Graph neural network (GNN) has recently been widely used for link prediction. However, existing GNN based link…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Kai-Lang Yao , Wu-Jun Li