Insurance fraud detection with unsupervised deep learning

The Internet of Things has become a cutting-edge technology that is continuously evolving in size, connectivity, and applicability. This ecosystem makes its presence felt in every aspect of our lives, along with all other emerging technologies. Unfortunately, despite the significant benefits brought by the IoT, the increased attack surface built upon it has become more critical than ever. Devices have limited resources and are not typically created with security features. Lately, a trend of botnet threats transitioning to the IoT environment has been observed, and an army of infected IoT devices can expand quickly and be used for effective attacks. Therefore, identifying proper solutions for securing IoT systems is currently an important and challenging research topic. Machine learning-based approaches are a promising alternative, allowing the identification of abnormal behaviors and the detection of attacks. This paper proposes an anomaly-based detection solution that uses unsupervised deep learning techniques to identify IoT botnet activities. An empirical evaluation of the proposed method is conducted on both balanced and unbalanced datasets to assess its threat detection capability. False-positive rate reduction and its impact on the detection system are also analyzed. Furthermore, a comparison with other unsupervised learning approaches is included. The experimental results reveal the performance of the proposed detection method.

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Learning About the World by Learning About Images

Current Directions in Psychological Science ◽

10.1177/0963721421990334 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 096372142199033

Author(s):

Katherine R. Storrs ◽

Roland W. Fleming

Keyword(s):

Neural Networks ◽

Deep Learning ◽

Visual Processing ◽

Visual Experience ◽

Natural Images ◽

Sensory Coding ◽

The World ◽

Unsupervised Deep Learning ◽

Statistical Regularities ◽

Sensory Encoding

One of the deepest insights in neuroscience is that sensory encoding should take advantage of statistical regularities. Humans’ visual experience contains many redundancies: Scenes mostly stay the same from moment to moment, and nearby image locations usually have similar colors. A visual system that knows which regularities shape natural images can exploit them to encode scenes compactly or guess what will happen next. Although these principles have been appreciated for more than 60 years, until recently it has been possible to convert them into explicit models only for the earliest stages of visual processing. But recent advances in unsupervised deep learning have changed that. Neural networks can be taught to compress images or make predictions in space or time. In the process, they learn the statistical regularities that structure images, which in turn often reflect physical objects and processes in the outside world. The astonishing accomplishments of unsupervised deep learning reaffirm the importance of learning statistical regularities for sensory coding and provide a coherent framework for how knowledge of the outside world gets into visual cortex.

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Correspondence Learning for Deep Multi-Modal Recognition and Fraud Detection

Electronics ◽

10.3390/electronics10070800 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (7) ◽

pp. 800

Author(s):

Jongchan Park ◽

Min-Hyun Kim ◽

Dong-Geol Choi

Keyword(s):

Deep Learning ◽

Simple Technique ◽

Detection Method ◽

Fraud Detection ◽

Complementary Information ◽

Multiple Modalities ◽

Vending Machines ◽

Emotion Intensity ◽

The Relationship ◽

Extract Information

Deep learning-based methods have achieved good performance in various recognition benchmarks mostly by utilizing single modalities. As different modalities contain complementary information to each other, multi-modal based methods are proposed to implicitly utilize them. In this paper, we propose a simple technique, called correspondence learning (CL), which explicitly learns the relationship among multiple modalities. The multiple modalities in the data samples are randomly mixed among different samples. If the modalities are from the same sample (not mixed), then they have positive correspondence, and vice versa. CL is an auxiliary task for the model to predict the correspondence among modalities. The model is expected to extract information from each modality to check correspondence and achieve better representations in multi-modal recognition tasks. In this work, we first validate the proposed method in various multi-modal benchmarks including CMU Multimodal Opinion-Level Sentiment Intensity (CMU-MOSI) and CMU Multimodal Opinion Sentiment and Emotion Intensity (CMU-MOSEI) sentiment analysis datasets. In addition, we propose a fraud detection method using the learned correspondence among modalities. To validate this additional usage, we collect a multi-modal dataset for fraud detection using real-world samples for reverse vending machines.

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