Current Research Landscape of Machine Learning Algorithms in Online Identity Fraud Prediction and Detection
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Online fraud is an ever-growing problem that dates back to the beginning of e-commerce. An online fraudster can utilize many attack vectors and planes; however, identity fraud is one of the most common and detrimental to the victims. This paper will look at the current research landscape of the different machine learning algorithms and approaches used to help predict and detect online identity fraud. By adopting systematic review and meta-analysis protocols, this paper summarizes the types of machine learning algorithms used in online fraud detection and prevention, and highlights the reported effectiveness of these methods through performance measurement indicator analysis. Last, the researchers present the limitations and future research directions based on the results of this study
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.092 | 0.215 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.012 | 0.012 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.014 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".