Hybrid Contrastive Learning With Attention-Based Neural Networks for Robust Fraud Detection in Digital Payment Systems
Fraud detection in digital payment systems is a critical challenge due to the growing complexity of transaction patterns and the inherent class imbalance in datasets. This article proposes a novel Hybrid Contrastive Learning framework integrating Siamese Networks with Attention-Based Neural Networks...
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| Main Authors: | , , , , , , , |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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IEEE
2025-01-01
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| Series: | IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society |
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| Online Access: | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11045880/ |
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| Summary: | Fraud detection in digital payment systems is a critical challenge due to the growing complexity of transaction patterns and the inherent class imbalance in datasets. This article proposes a novel Hybrid Contrastive Learning framework integrating Siamese Networks with Attention-Based Neural Networks to effectively distinguish fraudulent from legitimate transactions. The proposed model achieves state-of-the-art results, surpassing 10 recent methods in key metrics, with a recall of 95.42%, precision of 97.35%, and ROC-AUC of 98.78% on the Credit Card Fraud Detection dataset. Cross-dataset evaluations using a simulated transaction dataset demonstrate consistent generalization, achieving a recall of 95.12% and ROC-AUC of 98.60%. An ablation study underscores the impact of attention mechanisms and contrastive learning, with the combined approach improving F1-score by up to 2.64%. Additionally, SHAP-based analysis reveals the importance of key features such as transaction amount and PCA-derived components in model decisions, enhancing explainability. The results establish the proposed framework as a robust, interpretable, and scalable solution for fraud prevention in digital payment systems. |
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| ISSN: | 2644-1268 |