arXiv:2410.08394cs.LGq-fin.GN2024-10被引 11

通过追踪资金源头与去向,高效识别区块链洗钱子图。

Identifying Money Laundering Subgraphs on the Blockchain

  • 聚焦资金流动起点和终点,构建低成本高精度的洗钱子图识别框架。
  • 在Elliptic2数据集上,分类准确率优于现有方法,且计算成本更低。
  • 无需预设可疑子图即可发现新洗钱模式,适合实际反洗钱场景。

反洗钱(AML)旨在识别金融活动中的洗钱行为,如加密货币交易。近期研究将金融交易建模为图结构,利用图机器学习方法识别可疑活动。例如,公开数据集Elliptic2将同一实体控制的比特币地址视为节点,地址间交易作为边,揭示了洗钱行为的“子图”特征。尽管已有方法在该基准上表现良好,但其大规模应用仍因图数据量大而成本高昂;且多数方法需预先提供候选子图,这在实际中难以满足。本文提出RevTrack框架,通过追踪资金的初始发送者和最终接收者,判断其所属子图的合法性。基于此,我们设计了神经网络模型RevClassify用于子图分类,并提出RevFilter解决无候选子图的问题:通过迭代过滤合法交易,自动发现新可疑子图。在Elliptic2标准基准上,RevClassify在准确率与效率上均超越现有技术。实验还验证了RevFilter发现新型可疑子图的有效性,证明其在真实反洗钱场景中的实用性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Anti-Money Laundering (AML) involves the identification of money laundering crimes in financial activities, such as cryptocurrency transactions. Recent studies advanced AML through the lens of graph-based machine learning, modeling the web of financial transactions as a graph and developing graph methods to identify suspicious activities. For instance, a recent effort on opensourcing datasets and benchmarks, Elliptic2, treats a set of Bitcoin addresses, considered to be controlled by the same entity, as a graph node and transactions among entities as graph edges. This modeling reveals the "shape" of a money laundering scheme - a subgraph on the blockchain. Despite the attractive subgraph classification results benchmarked by the paper, competitive methods remain expensive to apply due to the massive size of the graph; moreover, existing methods require candidate subgraphs as inputs which may not be available in practice. In this work, we introduce RevTrack, a graph-based framework that enables large-scale AML analysis with a lower cost and a higher accuracy. The key idea is to track the initial senders and the final receivers of funds; these entities offer a strong indication of the nature (licit vs. suspicious) of their respective subgraph. Based on this framework, we propose RevClassify, which is a neural network model for subgraph classification. Additionally, we address the practical problem where subgraph candidates are not given, by proposing RevFilter. This method identifies new suspicious subgraphs by iteratively filtering licit transactions, using RevClassify. Benchmarking these methods on Elliptic2, a new standard for AML, we show that RevClassify outperforms state-of-the-art subgraph classification techniques in both cost and accuracy. Furthermore, we demonstrate the effectiveness of RevFilter in discovering new suspicious subgraphs, confirming its utility for practical AML.

区块链反洗钱图学习子图检测

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