Fair Isaac Corporation
Behavioral misalignment detection within entity hard segmentation utilizing archetype-clustering

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Abstract:

An automated way of learning archetypes which capture many aspects of entity behavior, and assigning entities to a mixture of archetypes, such that each entity is represented as a distribution across multiple archetypes. Given those representations in archetypes, anomalous behavior can be detected by finding misalignment with a plurality of entities archetype clustering within a hard segmentation. Extensions to sequence modeling are also discussed. Applications of this method include anti-money laundering (where the entities can be customers and accounts, as described extensively below), retail banking fraud detection, network security, and general anomaly detection.

Status:
Grant
Type:

Utility

Filling date:

18 Mar 2016

Issue date:

19 Jan 2021