TOP Literature Database Beyond Static Datasets: A Behavior-Driven Entity-Specific Simulation to Overcome Data Scarcity and Train Effective Crypto Anti-Money Laundering Models
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Beyond Static Datasets: A Behavior-Driven Entity-Specific Simulation to Overcome Data Scarcity and Train Effective Crypto Anti-Money Laundering Models
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Abstract
For different factors/reasons, ranging from inherent characteristics and
features providing decentralization, enhanced privacy, ease of transactions,
etc., to implied external hardships in enforcing regulations, contradictions in
data sharing policies, etc., cryptocurrencies have been severely abused for
carrying out numerous malicious and illicit activities including money
laundering, darknet transactions, scams, terrorism financing, arm trades.
However, money laundering is a key crime to be mitigated to also suspend the
movement of funds from other illicit activities. Billions of dollars are
annually being laundered. It is getting extremely difficult to identify money
laundering in crypto transactions owing to many layering strategies available
today, and rapidly evolving tactics, and patterns the launderers use to
obfuscate the illicit funds. Many detection methods have been proposed ranging
from naive approaches involving complete manual investigation to machine
learning models. However, there are very limited datasets available for
effectively training machine learning models. Also, the existing datasets are
static and class-imbalanced, posing challenges for scalability and suitability
to specific scenarios, due to lack of customization to varying requirements.
This has been a persistent challenge in literature. In this paper, we propose
behavior embedded entity-specific money laundering-like transaction simulation
that helps in generating various transaction types and models the transactions
embedding the behavior of several entities observed in this space. The paper
discusses the design and architecture of the simulator, a custom dataset we
generated using the simulator, and the performance of models trained on this
synthetic data in detecting real addresses involved in money laundering.