DyHDGE: Dynamic heterogeneous transaction graph embedding for safety-centric fraud detection in financial scenarios

Abstract

Dynamic graph fraud detection aims to distinguish fraudulent entities that deviate significantly from most benign entities within an ever-changing graph network. However, when dealing with different financial fraud scenarios, existing methods face challenges, resulting in difficulty in effectively ensuring financial security. In fraud scenarios, transaction data are generated in real time, in which a strong temporal relationship between multiple fraudulent transactions is observed. Traditional dynamic graph models struggle to effectively balance the temporal features of nodes and spatial structural features, failing to handle different types of nodes in the graph network. In this study, to extract the temporal and structural information, we proposed a dynamic heterogeneous transaction graph embedding (DyHDGE) network based on a dynamic heterogeneous transaction graph, considering both temporal and structural information while incorporating heterogeneous data. To separately extract temporal relationships between transactions and spatial structural relationships between nodes, we used a heterogeneous temporal graph representation learning module and a temporal graph structure information extraction module. Additionally, we designed two loss functions to optimize node feature representations. Extensive experiments demonstrated that the proposed DyHDGE significantly outperformed previous state-of-the-art methods on two simulated datasets of financial fraud scenarios. This capability contributes to enhancing security in financial consumption scenarios.