Decentralized Federated Learning-Enabled Relation Aggregation for Anomaly Detection

Abstract

Anomaly detection plays a crucial role in data security and risk management across various domains, such as financial insurance security, medical image recognition, and Internet of Things (IoT) device management. Researchers rely on machine learning to address potential threats in order to enhance data security. In the financial insurance industry, enterprises tend to leverage the relation mining capabilities of knowledge graph embedding (KGE) for anomaly detection. However, auto insurance fraud labeling strongly relies on manual labeling by experts. The efficiency and cost issues of labeling make auto insurance fraud detection still a small-sample detection challenge. Existing schemes, such as migration learning and data augmentation methods, are susceptible to local characteristics, leading to their poor generalization performance. To improve its generalization, the recently emerging Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) framework provides new ideas for mining more frauds through the joint cooperation of companies. Based on DFL, we propose a federated framework named DFLR for relation embedding aggregation. This framework trains the private KGE of auto insurance companies on the client locally and dynamically selects servers for relation aggregation with the aim of privacy protection. Finally, we validate the effectiveness of our proposed DFLR on a real auto insurance dataset. And the results show that the cooperative approach provided by DFLR improves the client’s ability to detect auto insurance fraud compared to single client training.