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Financial transaction fraud prevention faces challenges such as complex relationship structures, concealed behavioral patterns, and dynamically changing data distribution. Discrimination models relying solely on independent sample features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Yunfei Nie , Jiawei Wang , Ruobing Yan , Yuhan Wang , Zouxiaowei Ma , Yilun Wu

Detecting anomalies in data is a vital task, with numerous high-impact applications in areas such as security, finance, health care, and law enforcement. While numerous techniques have been developed in past years for spotting outliers and…

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Anomaly detection is vital in many domains, such as finance, healthcare, and cybersecurity. In this paper, we propose a novel deep anomaly detection method for tabular data that leverages Non-Parametric Transformers (NPTs), a model…

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A wide variety of application domains are concerned with data consisting of entities and their relationships or connections, formally represented as graphs. Within these diverse application areas, a common problem of interest is the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-09-06 Benjamin A. Miller , Michelle S. Beard , Patrick J. Wolfe , Nadya T. Bliss

Online transaction fraud presents substantial challenges to businesses and consumers, risking significant financial losses. Conventional rule-based systems struggle to keep pace with evolving fraud tactics, leading to high false positive…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2024-02-20 Catayoun Azarm , Erman Acar , Mickey van Zeelt

Graph anomaly detection (GAD) has achieved success and has been widely applied in various domains, such as fraud detection, cybersecurity, finance security, and biochemistry. However, existing graph anomaly detection algorithms focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Xing Ai , Jialong Zhou , Yulin Zhu , Gaolei Li , Tomasz P. Michalak , Xiapu Luo , Kai Zhou

Many machine learning methods have been proposed to achieve accurate transaction fraud detection, which is essential to the financial security of individuals and banks. However, most existing methods leverage original features only or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Yue Tian , Guanjun Liu , Jiacun Wang , Mengchu Zhou

Anomaly detection using a network-based approach is one of the most efficient ways to identify abnormal events such as fraud, security breaches, and system faults in a variety of applied domains. While most of the earlier works address the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Hossein Rafieizadeh , Hadi Zare , Mohsen Ghassemi Parsa , Hadi Davardoust , Meshkat Shariat Bagheri

Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) have grown increasingly complex and concealed, posing formidable challenges to existing Intrusion Detection Systems in identifying and mitigating these attacks. Recent studies have incorporated graph…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Wenhan Jiang , Tingting Chai , Hongri Liu , Kai Wang , Hongke Zhang

Corporate fraud detection aims to automatically recognize companies that conduct wrongful activities such as fraudulent financial statements or illegal insider trading. Previous learning-based methods fail to effectively integrate rich…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Shiqi Wang , Zhibo Zhang , Libing Fang , Cam-Tu Nguyen , Wenzhong Li

Detecting anomalies is important for identifying inefficiencies, errors, or fraud in business processes. Traditional process mining approaches focus on analyzing 'flattened', sequential, event logs based on a single case notion. However,…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-03-05 Alessandro Niro , Michael Werner

Anomaly detection is one of the most active research areas in various critical domains, such as healthcare, fintech, and public security. However, little attention has been paid to scholarly data, i.e., anomaly detection in a citation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Jiaying Liu , Feng Xia , Xu Feng , Jing Ren , Huan Liu

Mining discriminative features for graph data has attracted much attention in recent years due to its important role in constructing graph classifiers, generating graph indices, etc. Most measurement of interestingness of discriminative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-01-29 Xiangnan Kong , Philip S. Yu , Xue Wang , Ann B. Ragin

Graph anomaly detection (GAD), which aims to identify abnormal nodes that differ from the majority within a graph, has garnered significant attention. However, current GAD methods necessitate training specific to each dataset, resulting in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Yixin Liu , Shiyuan Li , Yu Zheng , Qingfeng Chen , Chengqi Zhang , Shirui Pan

Graph Anomaly Detection (GAD) is a critical task in graph machine learning with vital applications in financial fraud detection and social platform governance. However, existing GAD benchmarks are often restricted to small-scale, curated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Jingjing Zhou , Shiyu Huang , Qing Qing , Zuquan Yuan , Huafei Huang , Ziqi Xu , Mingliang Hou , Xikun Zhang , Renqiang Luo , Ivan Lee

The task of graph-level anomaly detection (GLAD) is to identify anomalous graphs that deviate significantly from the majority of graphs in a dataset. While deep GLAD methods have shown promising performance, their black-box nature limits…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Qiuran Zhao , Kai Ming Ting , Xinpeng Li

Finding anomalous snapshots from a graph has garnered huge attention recently. Existing studies address the problem using shallow learning mechanisms such as subspace selection, ego-network, or community analysis. These models do not take…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Siddharth Bhatia , Yiwei Wang , Bryan Hooi , Tanmoy Chakraborty

Anomaly detection (such as telecom fraud detection and medical image detection) has attracted the increasing attention of people. The complex interaction between multiple entities widely exists in the network, which can reflect specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Xu Yuan , Na Zhou , Shuo Yu , Huafei Huang , Zhikui Chen , Feng Xia

Anomaly detection in networks often boils down to identifying an underlying graph structure on which the abnormal occurrence rests on. Financial fraud schemes are one such example, where more or less intricate schemes are employed in order…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Andra Baltoiu , Andrei Patrascu , Paul Irofti