Computer Science ›› 2026, Vol. 53 ›› Issue (9): 439-450.doi: 10.11896/jsjkx.260100159

• Information Security • Previous Articles    

Dual-channel Message Passing for Class-imbalanced Graph Fraud Detection

JIANG Hangyu, CAO Huaihu, ZHOU Kai, CHEN Fu, SU Rui   

  1. College of Information,Central University of Finance and Economics,Beijing 102206,China
  • Received:2026-01-25 Revised:2026-06-09 Online:2026-09-15 Published:2026-09-10
  • About author:JIANG Hangyu,born in 1998,postgra-duate.His main research interests include financial technology,graph neural networks and knowledge graph.
    CAO Huaihu,born in 1977,Ph.D,professor,Ph.D supervisor,is a member of CCF(No.08298S).His main research interests include financial technology,artificial intelligence,network computing and network economics.
  • Supported by:
    National Natural Science Foundation of China(61672104).

Abstract: In recent years,with the rapid development of Internet services,fraudulent activities have become increasingly prevalent and are continuously evolving in their patterns.Graph neural networks(GNNs),owing to their strong capability in modeling structural information,have been widely applied to fraud detection tasks.However,most existing methods are built upon the homophily assumption,which often does not hold in real-world fraud detection scenarios.This is because fraudulent behaviors are inherently heterophilic-fraudsters tend to camouflage themselves by connecting to benign nodes.Meanwhile,severe class imba-lance among nodes is commonly observed,whereas the imbalance in edge relations and the exploitation of their latent information have received limited attention.To address these challenges,a fraud detection framework is proposed for imbalanced and heterophilic graphs.Specifically,a learnable dual-channel graph convolution filter adaptively aggregates low- and high-frequency signals from neighbors,enabling effective modeling of node features across homophilic and heterophilic edges.Additionally,label-aware node and edge samplers mitigate graph imbalance,and sampled edges serve as auxiliary supervision to guide filter training.Experi-mental results on four real-world datasets demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms representative baselines in fraud detection and model robustness.

Key words: Fraud detection, Dual-channel message passing, Graph neural networks, Class imbalance, Label-aware node and edge sampling

CLC Number: 

  • TP391
[1] MOTIE S,RAAHEMI B.Financial Fraud Detection usingGraph Neural Networks:A Systematic Review[J].Expert Systems with Applications,2024,240:122156.
[2] LIU B,SUN X G,MENG Q,et al.Nowhere to hide:Online Rumor Detection Based on Retweeting Graph Neural Networks[J].IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems,2024,35(4):4887-4898.
[3] YANG J,ZHANG R,CHENG Z,et al.Grad:Guided RelationDiffusion Generation for Graph Augmentation in Graph Fraud Detection[C] //Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference.2025:5308-5319.
[4] QIAO H Z,TONG H,AN B,et al.Deep Graph Anomaly Detection:A Survey and New Perspectives[J].IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering,2025,37(9):5106-5126.
[5] JU W,YI S Y,WANG Y F,et al.A Survey of Graph Neural Networks in Real World:Imbalance,Noise,Privacy and OOD Challenges[J/OL].IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence,2025,https://doi.org/10.1109/TPAMI.2025.3630673.
[6] YU P J,LI X,QI J P,et al.Multiplex Heterogenous Graph Neural Network for Node Classification[J].Journal of Software,2026,37(2):716-731.
[7] PAN J,LIU Y,ZHENG X,et al.A Label-free Heterophily-guided Approach for Unsupervised Graph Fraud Detection[C] //Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.2025:12443-12451.
[8] LIU Z,LI Y,CHEN N,et al.A Survey of Imbalanced Learning on Graphs:Problems,Techniques,and Future Directions[J].IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering,2025,37(6):3132-3152.
[9] JIN W,MA Y,LIU X R,et al.Graph Structure Learning for Robust Graph Neural Networks[C] //Proceedings of the 26th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Disco-very and Data Mining.2020:66-74.
[10] LI S,KIM D,WANG Q.Restructuring Graph for Higher Homophily via Adaptive Spectral Clustering[C] //Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.2023:8622-8630.
[11] ZHU J,YAN Y,ZHAO L,et al.Beyond Homophily in Graph Neural Networks:Current Limitations and Effective Designs[C] //Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems.2020:7793-7804.
[12] SURESH S,BUDDE V,NEVILLE J,et al.Breaking the Limit of Graph Neural Networks by Improving the Assortativity of Graphs with Local Mixing Patterns[C] //Proceedings of the 27th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.2021:1541-1551.
[13] LI X,ZHU R,CHENG Y,et al.Finding Global Homophily in Graph Neural Networks When Meeting Heterophily[C] //International Conference on Machine Learning.2022:13242-13256.
[14] CHIEN E,PENG J,LI P,et al.Adaptive Universal Generalized PageRank Graph Neural Network[C] //Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Learning Representations.2021.
[15] BO D,WANG X,SHI C,et al.Beyond Low-frequency Information in Graph Convolutional Networks[C] //Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.2021:3950-3957.
[16] SHI F,CAO Y,SHANG Y,et al.H2-FDetector:A GNN-based Fraud Detector with Homophilic and Heterophilic Connections[C] //Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference.2022:1486-1494.
[17] DU L,SHI X Z,FU Q,et al.GBK-GNN:Gated Bi-Kernel Graph Neural Networks for Modeling Both Homophily and Heterophily[C] //Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference.2022:1550-1558.
[18] HE M,WEI Z,XU H.BernNet:Learning Arbitrary Graph Spectral Filters via Bernstein Approximation[C] //Advances in Neural Information processing Systems.2021:14239-14251.
[19] SHI M,TANG Y,ZHU X,et al.Multi-class Imbalanced Graph Convolutional Network Learning[C] //Proceedings of the Twenty-ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.2020.
[20] JUAN X,ZHOU F,WANG W,et al.INS-GNN:ImprovingGraph Imbalance Learning with Self-supervision[J].Information Sciences,2023,637:118935.
[21] LI X,FAN Z,HUANG F,et al.Graph Neural Network with Curriculum Learning for Imbalanced Node Classification[J].Neurocomputing,2024,574:127229.
[22] HAJEK P,NOVOTNY J,MUNK M.Financial Statement Fraud Detection using Topic-driven Financial Sentiment Analysis[J].Decision Support Systems,2026,203:114615.
[23] SISODIA D,SISODIA D S.A Transfer Learning FrameworkTowards Identifying Behavioral Changes of Fraudulent Publishers in Pay-per-click Model of Online Advertising for Click Fraud Detection[J].Expert Systems with Applications,2023,232:120922.
[24] LI Z,LIU G,JIANG C.Deep Representation Learning with Full Center Loss for Credit Card Fraud Detection[J].IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems,2020,7(2):569-579.
[25] FANAI H,ABBASIMEHR H.A Novel Combined Approachbased on Deep Autoencoder and Deep Classifiers for Credit Car Fraud Detection[J].Expert Systems with Applications,2023,217:119562.
[26] XIE Y,LIU G J,YAN C,et al.Time-aware Attention-based Gated Network for Credit Card Fraud Detection by Extracting Transactional Behaviors[J].IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems,2023,10(3):1004-1016.
[27] LIU Z Q,CHEN C,YANG X,et al.Heterogenous Graph Neural Networks for Malicious Account Detection[C] //Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management.2018:2077-2085.
[28] WANG J,WEN R,WU C,et al.FdGars:Frauster Detection via Graph Convolutional Networks in Online App Review System[C] //Companion Proceedings of the 2019 World Wide Web Conference.2019:310-316.
[29] LIU Z W,DOU Y T,YU P S,et al.Alleviating the Inconsistency Problem of Applying Graph Neural Network to Fraud Detection[C] //Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.2020:1569-1572.
[30] DOU Y T,LIU Z W,SUN L,et al.Enhancing Graph NeuralNetwork-based Fraud Detectors against Camouflaged Fraudsters[C] //Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management.2020:315-324.
[31] LIU Y,AO X,QIN Z,et al.Pick and Choose:A GNN-based Imbalanced Learning Approach for Fraud Detection[C] //Procee-dings of the ACM Web Conference.2021:3168-3177.
[32] ZHANG G,WU J,YANG J,et al.FRAUDRE:Fraud Detection Dual-Resistant to Graph Inconsistency and Imbalance[C] //2021 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining(ICDM).2021:867-876.
[33] TANG J,LI J,GAO Z,et al.Rethinking Graph Neural Networks for Anomaly Detection[C] //International Conference on Machine Learning.2022:21076-21089.
[34] WANG Y,ZHANG J,HUANG Z,et al.Label Information Enhanced Fraud Detection against Low Homophily in Graphs[C] //Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference.2023:406-416.
[35] GAO Y,WANG X,HE X,et al.Addressing Heterophily inGraph Anomaly Detection:A Perspective of Graph Spectrum[C] //Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference.2023:1528-1538.
[36] WU B,YAO X,ZHANG B,et al.SplitGNN:Spectral GraphNeural Network for Fraud Detection against Heterophily[C] //Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management.2023:2737-2746.
[37] GAO Y,WANG X,HE X,et al.Alleviating Structural Distribution Shift in Graph Anomaly Detection[C] //Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining.2023:357-365.
[38] ZHUO W,LIU Z,HOOI B,et al.Partitioning Message Passing for Graph Fraud Detection[C] //Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations.2024.
[39] RAYANA S,AKOGLU L.Collective Opinion Spam Detection:Bridging Review Networks and Metadata[C] //Proceedings of the 21th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.2015:985-994.
[40] MCAULEY J J,LESKOVEC J.From Amateurs to Connois-seurs:Modeling the Evolution of User Expertise Through Online Reviews[C] //Proceedings of the 22nd International Confe-rence on World Wide Web.2013:897-908.
[41] WEBER M,DOMENICONI G,CHEN J,et al.Anti-moneyLaundering in Bitcoin: Experimenting with Graph Convolutional Networks for Financial Forensics[J].arXiv:1908.02591,2019.
[42] KIPF T N,WELLING M.Semi-supervised Classification withGraph Convolutional Networks[C] //Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Learning Representations.2017.
[43] LI P,YU H,LUO X.Context-Aware Graph Neural Network for Graph-based Fraud Detection with Extremely Limited Labels[C] //Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.2025:12112-12120.
[44] WU J,LIU X,CHENG D,et al.Safeguarding Fraud Detection from Attacks:A Robust Graph Learning Approach[C] //IJCAI.2024:7500-7508.
[45] ZHAO T,ZHANG X,WANG S.GraphSMOTE:ImbalancedNode Classification on Graphs with Graph Neural Networks[C] //Proceedings of the 14th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining.2021:833-841.
[46] PARK J,SONG J,YANG E.GraphENS:Neighbor-Aware Ego Network Synthesis for Class-Imbalanced Node Classification[C] //International Conference on Learning Representations.2021.
[47] LI K D,YANG T M,ZHOU M,et al.SEFraud:Graph-based Self-explainable Fraud Detection via Interpretative Mask Lear-ning[C] //Proceedings of the 30th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.2024:5329-5338.
[48] DUAN M,HE D,ZHENG T,et al.Global Attribute-Association Pattern Aggregation for Graph Fraud Detection[C] //Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.2025:11616-11624.
[1] HE Jiaojun, LI Xin. Review of Graph Learning Based on Large Language Models:Methods,Benchmarks and Advances [J]. Computer Science, 2026, 53(9): 1-15.
[2] XU Jianjun, BI Ying, CHEN Mingming, LIANG Jing. Survey of Molecular Pre-training Models and Their Applications in Drug Discovery [J]. Computer Science, 2026, 53(9): 110-123.
[3] WANG Xingyue, YE Hongting, XU Honghua, ZHOU Suyang, KONG Youyong. Multimodal Renewable Energy Data Feature Graph Modeling Method Based on Hard Prompts [J]. Computer Science, 2026, 53(9): 145-156.
[4] LI Kaiju, YIN Chenyang, CHENG Zhangtao, LIU Xueting, ZHOU Fan. Causal Subgraph Learning for Cascade Popularity Prediction [J]. Computer Science, 2026, 53(7): 213-221.
[5] WANG Jiajun, JIAO Pengfei, ZHANG Xinxun, LI Tianpeng, GAO Mengzhou. Unsupervised Dynamic Graph Change Point Detection Method Based on Variational Graph Auto-encoder [J]. Computer Science, 2026, 53(7): 272-279.
[6] TAI Wenxin, LIU Xueting, WANG Xiaohan, ZHONG Ting, WANG Yong, ZHOU Fan. Trustworthy IP Geolocation Method via Graph Neural Networks and Conformalized Quantile Regression [J]. Computer Science, 2026, 53(7): 308-314.
[7] HAN Zhigeng, FU Chunshuo. Fraud Detection Model Based on Dual-space Heterogeneous Graph Neural Network [J]. Computer Science, 2026, 53(6A): 250600050-6.
[8] ZHANG Xinliang, LIU Lilong, CHEN Shangheng, CHEN Ziyang, QIAN Shengsheng. Dual-stream Heterogeneous Social Graph for Micro-video Popularity Prediction [J]. Computer Science, 2026, 53(6A): 250800073-8.
[9] ZHANG Zihao, WU Zezhong. Optimization of HAN-based GNN-Transformer Collaborative Contrastive Learning Framework [J]. Computer Science, 2026, 53(6A): 250900103-8.
[10] SU Ye, XU Xin, ZHAO Longlong, LI Xiaoli, CHEN Pan, CHEN Jinsong. LitchiNet:Lightweight Litchi Variety Recognition Network with Fused Multi-scale Gated Attention and Class Imbalance Awareness [J]. Computer Science, 2026, 53(6A): 250600127-8.
[11] SUN Bo, WANG Zhijun, ZHOU Zhunan, LI Qingjie, WANG Yun, GENG Xia, ZHANG Yan , SUN Chenxuan. Imbalanced Data Learning Approach Utilizing Feature Value Based Class Overlap Degree [J]. Computer Science, 2026, 53(6A): 250600199-8.
[12] ZHANG Xin, CHEN Wen. CausalVulGNN:Framework for Software Vulnerability Explanation Based on Causal Inferenceand Graph Neural Networks [J]. Computer Science, 2026, 53(6): 427-436.
[13] WANG Jinghong, LI Pengchao, WANG Xizhao, ZHANG Zili. Dual-channel Graph Neural Network Based on KAN [J]. Computer Science, 2026, 53(3): 188-196.
[14] LIU Hongjian, ZOU Danping, LI Ping. Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction Method Based on Graph Attention Interaction [J]. Computer Science, 2026, 53(1): 97-103.
[15] LI Yaru, WANG Qianqian, CHE Chao, ZHU Deheng. Graph-based Compound-Protein Interaction Prediction with Drug Substructures and Protein 3D Information [J]. Computer Science, 2025, 52(9): 71-79.
Viewed
Full text


Abstract

Cited

  Shared   
  Discussed   
No Suggested Reading articles found!