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New RGH-GNN model enhances financial fraud detection using risk-gated aggregation

Researchers have developed a new model called RGH-GNN, a heterogeneous graph neural network designed to improve financial fraud detection. This model incorporates transaction-level risk scores, generated by a LightGBM classifier, as edge weights to guide its message-passing mechanism. By prioritizing high-risk transactions, RGH-GNN aims to prevent the dilution of crucial signals that can occur with uniform aggregation in standard graph neural networks. When tested on the IEEE-CIS fraud detection dataset, RGH-GNN demonstrated superior performance compared to existing models, achieving an AUC-ROC score of 0.914. AI

IMPACT This model's risk-gated approach could lead to more accurate and efficient fraud detection systems in financial institutions.

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Mythreyee Hari, Subin Sahayam, Vegesna S M Srinivasavarma ·

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

    arXiv:2610.27107v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Credit card fraud is a significant problem for financial institutions, resulting in substantial monetary loss each year. Fraud patterns and methods are continuously evolving, with fraudulent transactions often disguised to resemble …