Scalable and Verifiable Federated Learning for Cross-Institution Financial Fraud Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.23437v1
• Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:49:22 GMT
• Title: Scalable and Verifiable Federated Learning for Cross-Institution Financial Fraud Detection
• Abstract summary: We propose Dynamic Sharded Learning (DSFL), a verifiable secure aggregation framework for fraud detection.<n>DSFL replaces topologies with Dynamic Sharding, reducing complexity from O(N2) to m(N2)<n>To mitigate insider threats, we introduce Linear Integrity Tags, an additive-homomorphic commitment mechanism.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The global financial ecosystem confronts a critical asymmetry: while fraud syndicates operate as borderless, distributed networks, banking institutions remain constrained by regulatory data silos, limiting visibility into cross-institutional threat patterns under strict privacy laws such as GDPR. Although Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative training, existing protocols impose a trade-off among scalability, privacy, and integrity. Homomorphic encryption schemes are computationally expensive, while pairwise masking protocols require O(N^2) key exchanges and lack mechanisms to detect malformed updates. Existing defenses also remain vulnerable to gradient inversion attacks that can reconstruct sensitive transaction data. To address these limitations, we propose Dynamic Sharded Federated Learning (DSFL), a verifiable secure aggregation framework for cross-institution financial fraud detection. DSFL replaces mesh topologies with Dynamic Stochastic Sharding, reducing communication complexity from O(N^2) to O(N m), where m is a fixed shard size, achieving linear scalability. To mitigate insider threats, we introduce Linear Integrity Tags, an additive-homomorphic commitment mechanism that enables probabilistic verification of submitted updates without the overhead of zero-knowledge proofs, while not enforcing semantic correctness. Additionally, the Active Neighborhood Recovery protocol ensures robust aggregation under participant dropouts. Empirical evaluation on the Credit Card Fraud Detection Dataset (ULB) demonstrates an approximately 33x latency reduction compared to Paillier-based secure aggregation, while maintaining strong resilience under simulated failures. These results position DSFL as a practical foundation for scalable and privacy-preserving collaborative fraud detection.

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