ResearchResearch paperInterpretability · Safety & Alignment · Training & Scaling1 source · Oct 13, 2026

Enhanced Detective: A Dual-Stage Proactive Defense Against Internal Poisoning Attacks in Financial Fraud Detection Using Federated Learning

Therefore, in this work, we propose Enhanced Detective, a dual-stage robust aggregation strategy that combines Median Absolute Deviation (MAD), distance-based update filtering, and FedMedian aggregation.

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  • With recent developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI), the adoption of distributed learning paradigms such as Federated Learning (FL) has emerged.
  • In simple terms, FL enables multiple entities to collaboratively train AI models without sharing local data.
  • The FL paradigm is particularly valuable in privacy-sensitive settings, such as financial services, because it enables institutions to collaboratively improve fraud-detection models while keeping sensitive transaction data local.
  • Experiments on an imbalanced credit card dataset evaluate targeted label-flipping and weight-scaling attacks over 50 communication rounds.

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