ECAI Conference 2025 Conference Paper
Lightning Decoupled Graph Neural Architecture Search for Fraud Detection
- Tairan Huang
- Changlong He
- Yili Wang 0005
- Jianliang Gao
Graph neural networks (GNNs) for fraud detection has received extensive attention, where malicious behaviors often exhibit complex relational patterns. Despite their success, the GNN architecture design of existing graph-based fraud detection methods requires significant manual work and expert knowledge. The application of manually designed architectures to diverse real-world scenarios remains a huge time cost, as it requires numerous parameter tuning for varying conditions. Moreover, the GNN-based methods suffer from the over-smoothing problem during multi-layer message passing, which limits the performance in the fraud detection task. To address these problems, we propose the Automatic lightning decoupled Graph neural architecture search for Fraud Detection (AutoGFD). Specifically, AutoGFD designs the decoupled search algorithm to automatically construct the optimal architecture from the specialized architecture search space for the fraud detection task, which can effectively solve the over-smoothing problem. In addition, AutoGFD designs the lightning search tuning mechanism to improve the efficiency of architecture estimation. As far as we know, AutoGFD is the first attempt to design decoupled architecture search for fraud detection, which can automatically search for optimal architectures in different fraud detection scenarios without manual design and expert knowledge. The experimental results based on multiple benchmark datasets show that AutoGFD can achieve significant performance advantages over state-of-the-art baseline methods.