""" Generate a tight, comprehensive IEEE-style PDF paper using fpdf2. Target: 12 pages. No wasted whitespace. Redundant figures removed. """ import os, sys sys.path.insert(0, '/app/fraud_detection') from fpdf import FPDF FIGURES_DIR = '/app/fraud_detection/figures' PAPER_DIR = '/app/fraud_detection/paper' os.makedirs(PAPER_DIR, exist_ok=True) LM = 14 RM = 14 TM = 14 BW = 215.9 - LM - RM class IEEEPaper(FPDF): def __init__(self): super().__init__('P', 'mm', 'letter') self.set_margins(LM, TM, RM) self.set_auto_page_break(auto=True, margin=16) def header(self): if self.page_no() > 1: self.set_font('Helvetica', 'I', 6.5) self.cell(0, 3, 'IEEE -- Fraud Detection with Explainable AI', align='C') self.ln(4) def footer(self): self.set_y(-12) self.set_font('Helvetica', 'I', 7) self.cell(0, 8, f'{self.page_no()}', align='C') def sec(self, num, title): self.ln(3) self.set_font('Helvetica', 'B', 10) t = f'{num}. {title.upper()}' if num else title.upper() self.cell(0, 5, t, ln=True) self.ln(1) def sub(self, label, title): self.ln(1.5) self.set_font('Helvetica', 'B', 9) self.cell(0, 4.5, f'{label} {title}', ln=True) self.ln(0.5) def p(self, text): self.set_font('Times', '', 9) self.multi_cell(0, 3.8, text) self.ln(1) def bullet(self, items): self.set_font('Times', '', 9) for item in items: self.set_x(LM + 3) self.cell(3, 3.8, '-') self.multi_cell(BW - 6, 3.8, item) self.ln(0.3) self.ln(0.5) def fig(self, path, caption, w=145): if not os.path.exists(path): return self.ln(1.5) x = (self.w - w) / 2 self.image(path, x=x, w=w) self.ln(1) self.set_font('Helvetica', 'I', 7.5) self.multi_cell(0, 3.5, caption, align='C') self.ln(1.5) def tbl(self, hdrs, rows, caption=''): if caption: self.ln(1) self.set_font('Helvetica', 'I', 7.5) self.multi_cell(0, 3.5, caption, align='C') self.ln(0.5) cw = BW / len(hdrs) self.set_font('Helvetica', 'B', 7) for h in hdrs: self.cell(cw, 4, h, border=1, align='C') self.ln() self.set_font('Times', '', 7) for row in rows: for c in row: self.cell(cw, 4, str(c), border=1, align='C') self.ln() self.ln(1.5) def build(): pdf = IEEEPaper() F = FIGURES_DIR # ===== PAGE 1: Title + Abstract + Start of Intro ===== pdf.add_page() pdf.ln(6) pdf.set_font('Helvetica', 'B', 15) pdf.multi_cell(0, 7.5, 'A Comprehensive Ensemble-Based Framework\nfor Credit Card Fraud Detection with Explainable AI', align='C') pdf.ln(3) pdf.set_font('Helvetica', '', 10) pdf.cell(0, 5, 'Raj Vivan', align='C', ln=True) pdf.set_font('Helvetica', 'I', 8.5) pdf.cell(0, 4, 'Department of Computer Science | Independent Research', align='C', ln=True) pdf.ln(4) pdf.set_font('Helvetica', 'B', 9) pdf.cell(0, 4, 'Abstract', align='C', ln=True) pdf.ln(1) pdf.p( 'Credit card fraud poses a significant and growing threat to the global financial ecosystem, with estimated annual losses exceeding ' '$32 billion. This paper presents a comprehensive, end-to-end fraud detection framework that systematically develops, evaluates, and ' 'compares seven machine learning approaches: Logistic Regression, Random Forest, XGBoost, LightGBM, Multilayer Perceptron, ' 'Autoencoder-based anomaly detection, and a Voting Ensemble. Using the European Cardholder benchmark dataset (284,807 transactions, ' '0.173% fraud rate), we engineer 12 novel features and address class imbalance through SMOTE oversampling (applied exclusively after ' 'train-test splitting) and cost-sensitive learning. XGBoost achieves the best performance with PR-AUC of 0.8166, precision of 0.9048, ' 'recall of 0.8028, and F1 of 0.8507. Threshold optimization from 0.5 to 0.55 improves F1 to 0.8636. SHAP and LIME explainability ' 'analysis identifies V4, V14, and PCA_magnitude as primary fraud discriminators. Error analysis reveals that false negatives arise ' 'from sophisticated fraud closely mimicking legitimate behavior. The model is deployed as a FastAPI service with sub-10ms latency. ' 'All code, models, and results are publicly available.' ) pdf.set_font('Helvetica', 'I', 7.5) pdf.cell(0, 4, 'Keywords: fraud detection, XGBoost, ensemble learning, SHAP, LIME, class imbalance, SMOTE, anomaly detection', ln=True) # ===== I. INTRODUCTION ===== pdf.sec('I', 'Introduction') pdf.p( 'Financial fraud detection has emerged as one of the most consequential applications of machine learning. The global shift toward ' 'electronic payments has created unprecedented transaction volumes while simultaneously enabling sophisticated fraud. According to ' 'the Nilson Report [21], worldwide card fraud losses reached $32.34 billion in 2021 (a 14% increase year-over-year), projected to ' 'exceed $43 billion by 2026. The fundamental challenge lies in extreme class imbalance: fraudulent transactions typically constitute ' 'less than 0.5% of all transactions, rendering accuracy metrics meaningless and necessitating PR-AUC, F1, and MCC [18].' ) pdf.p( 'A second challenge is concept drift [1]: fraudsters continuously adapt, causing model performance to degrade over time. Previous ' 'approaches range from rule-based expert systems [12] to deep learning architectures [13]. However, extensive benchmarking by ' 'Shwartz-Ziv and Armon [9] and Grinsztajn et al. [10] demonstrates that well-tuned gradient-boosted trees consistently outperform ' 'deep learning on tabular data, including fraud detection, when combined with thoughtful feature engineering.' ) pdf.p('This paper makes the following contributions:') pdf.bullet([ 'Systematic comparison of seven ML approaches spanning linear models, tree ensembles, neural networks, and anomaly detection.', 'Novel feature engineering producing 12 features capturing temporal cycles, transaction velocity, and PCA interactions.', 'Rigorous methodology: SMOTE only after splitting; scaler fitted on train only; six metrics including PR-AUC and MCC.', 'SHAP (global) and LIME (local) explainability analysis identifying key fraud indicators.', 'Production FastAPI deployment achieving sub-10ms latency with business impact quantification.', ]) # ===== II. RELATED WORK ===== pdf.sec('II', 'Related Work') pdf.p( 'Bolton and Hand [12] provided an early survey of statistical fraud detection. Dal Pozzolo et al. [1] analyzed class imbalance and ' 'concept drift in real-world systems, while their follow-up [22] investigated when undersampling is effective. Chawla et al. [2] ' 'introduced SMOTE for synthetic minority oversampling; Fernandez et al. [3] later demonstrated that SMOTE must be applied exclusively ' 'to training data to avoid data leakage that produces over-optimistic estimates.' ) pdf.p( 'Tree-based methods dominate tabular fraud detection. Xuan et al. [17] showed Random Forests achieve robust baseline performance. ' 'Chen and Guestrin [4] introduced XGBoost; Ke et al. [5] proposed LightGBM with leaf-wise growth and GOSS; Prokhorenkova et al. [16] ' 'introduced CatBoost with ordered boosting. Taha and Malebary [14] demonstrated optimized LightGBM for fraud detection. ' 'Pumsirirat and Yan [6] employed autoencoders trained on legitimate transactions only, detecting fraud via reconstruction error. ' 'Zhang et al. [13] proposed attention-based RNNs for sequential patterns.' ) pdf.p( 'For explainability, Lundberg and Lee [7] introduced SHAP based on Shapley values from cooperative game theory. Ribeiro et al. [8] ' 'proposed LIME for instance-level interpretation via local linear approximations. Belle and Papantonis [15] surveyed XAI methods for ' 'financial decision-making. Akiba et al. [11] introduced Optuna with TPE sampling for efficient hyperparameter optimization.' ) # ===== III. DATASET AND EDA ===== pdf.sec('III', 'Dataset and Exploratory Data Analysis') pdf.sub('A.', 'Dataset Description') pdf.p( 'We use the European Cardholder dataset [1], containing 284,807 transactions over two days in September 2013. Each transaction has ' '28 PCA-transformed features (V1-V28), raw Time and Amount, and a binary Class label (0=legitimate, 1=fraud). The PCA transformation ' 'protects cardholder privacy but prevents domain-specific feature engineering. The dataset has extreme class imbalance: only 492 ' 'fraudulent transactions (0.173%), yielding an imbalance ratio of 1:577.' ) pdf.tbl( ['Class', 'Count', 'Percentage', 'Ratio'], [['Legitimate (0)', '284,315', '99.827%', '---'], ['Fraud (1)', '492', '0.173%', '1:577'], ['Total', '284,807', '100%', '---']], 'Table I: Class Distribution' ) pdf.fig(os.path.join(F, 'class_distribution.png'), 'Fig. 1. Class distribution showing extreme imbalance (0.173% fraud).', w=130) pdf.sub('B.', 'Transaction Amount and Temporal Patterns') pdf.p( 'Legitimate transactions have a mean of $88.29 (median $22.00); fraudulent transactions have a higher mean of $122.21 but lower ' 'median of $9.25. This bimodal fraud pattern suggests two strategies: (i) low-value "testing" transactions verifying stolen cards, ' 'and (ii) moderate-to-high-value theft. The nighttime (0-6h) fraud rate is 0.518%, nearly 4x the daytime rate of 0.137%, consistent ' 'with fraudsters exploiting low-monitoring periods. These patterns motivate our cyclic temporal and amount-based feature engineering.' ) pdf.fig(os.path.join(F, 'amount_analysis.png'), 'Fig. 2. Amount analysis: (a) legitimate, (b) fraud, (c) log-scaled comparison, (d) boxplot.', w=145) pdf.fig(os.path.join(F, 'time_analysis.png'), 'Fig. 3. Temporal patterns: (a) transaction density by hour, (b) fraud rate by hour.', w=135) pdf.sub('C.', 'Feature Correlations and Key Observations') pdf.p( 'Pearson correlation identifies V17 (r=-0.326), V14 (r=-0.303), and V12 (r=-0.261) as having the strongest negative correlation ' 'with fraud; V11 (+0.155) and V4 (+0.133) show the strongest positive correlation. Amount has near-zero correlation (r=0.006), ' 'confirming that amount-based rules alone would be ineffective. Five key observations: (1) the 1:577 imbalance makes accuracy ' 'meaningless; (2) bimodal fraud amounts require engineered deviation features; (3) the 4x nighttime fraud rate provides temporal ' 'signal; (4) V14, V17, V12, V4, V11 carry the strongest fraud signal; (5) no missing values exist, with 1,081 duplicates removed.' ) pdf.fig(os.path.join(F, 'correlation_heatmap.png'), 'Fig. 4. Feature correlation with fraud class. Red bars indicate negative correlation (lower values signal fraud).', w=120) # ===== IV. METHODOLOGY ===== pdf.sec('IV', 'Methodology') pdf.sub('A.', 'Feature Engineering') pdf.p( 'We augment the original 30 features with 12 engineered features (42 total). Temporal features: cyclic hour encoding ' '(Hour_sin, Hour_cos) and Time_diff (inter-arrival time). Amount features: Amount_log, Amount_deviation_mean, ' 'Amount_deviation_median, Amount_zscore, and Transaction_velocity. Interaction features: V14*V17, V12*V14, V10*V14 (capturing ' 'joint effects between top discriminators). PCA_magnitude: L2 norm of all V features, measuring overall transaction abnormality.' ) pdf.sub('B.', 'Class Imbalance, Splitting, and Scaling') pdf.p( 'Two approaches are compared, both applied exclusively to training data. SMOTE [2] generates synthetic fraud at a 1:2 ratio ' '(99,138 synthetic + 198,277 legitimate), used only for MLP training. Cost-sensitive learning applies balanced class weights ' '(w0=0.501, w1=300.01) for tree models and Logistic Regression. Stratified 70/15/15 splitting preserves the fraud ratio across ' 'all sets (Train: 198,608 samples/331 fraud; Val/Test: 42,559/71 each). RobustScaler normalizes by IQR, fitted on train only.' ) pdf.sub('C.', 'Model Descriptions') pdf.p( '(1) Logistic Regression: L2-regularized (C=0.1), balanced weights, interpretable baseline. ' '(2) Random Forest: 150 trees, depth 12, balanced weights. ' '(3) XGBoost: 200 estimators, depth 6, lr=0.1, scale_pos_weight from class frequencies, histogram splitting. ' '(4) LightGBM: 200 estimators, depth 8, lr=0.05, leaf-wise growth with GOSS. ' '(5) MLP: 128-64-32 neurons, ReLU, adaptive lr, early stopping, trained on SMOTE data. ' '(6) Autoencoder: 42-64-32-16-32-64-42, trained 50 epochs on legitimate only, detects fraud via reconstruction error. ' '(7) Voting Ensemble: soft voting over three best tuned models (XGBoost, LightGBM, RF).' ) pdf.sub('D.', 'Hyperparameter Optimization') pdf.p( 'Optuna [11] with TPE sampler tunes XGBoost, LightGBM, and Random Forest (15-20 trials each), optimizing PR-AUC on the validation set.' ) pdf.fig(os.path.join(F, 'architecture_diagram.png'), 'Fig. 5. End-to-end system architecture from transaction input through inference to API output and monitoring.', w=145) # ===== V. EXPERIMENTAL SETUP ===== pdf.sec('V', 'Experimental Setup') pdf.p( 'Experiments use Python 3.12 with scikit-learn 1.8.0, XGBoost 3.2.0, LightGBM 4.6.0, PyTorch 2.11.0, Optuna 4.8.0, SHAP 0.51.0, ' 'and LIME 0.2.0.1 on CPU infrastructure (~25 min total training). Six metrics reported: Precision, Recall, F1, ROC-AUC, ' 'PR-AUC (primary, most informative under extreme imbalance [18]), and MCC (balanced measure across all confusion matrix quadrants).' ) # ===== VI. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION ===== pdf.sec('VI', 'Results and Discussion') pdf.sub('A.', 'Model Comparison') pdf.p('Table II presents comprehensive test set evaluation at threshold 0.5.') pdf.tbl( ['Model', 'Prec.', 'Recall', 'F1', 'ROC-AUC', 'PR-AUC', 'MCC'], [ ['XGBoost', '0.905', '0.803', '0.851', '0.974', '0.817', '0.852'], ['Voting Ens.', '0.864', '0.803', '0.832', '0.978', '0.801', '0.832'], ['LGBM Tuned', '0.707', '0.817', '0.758', '0.932', '0.796', '0.760'], ['XGB Tuned', '0.838', '0.803', '0.820', '0.970', '0.793', '0.820'], ['RF Tuned', '0.873', '0.775', '0.821', '0.968', '0.793', '0.822'], ['Random Forest', '0.833', '0.775', '0.803', '0.953', '0.771', '0.803'], ['MLP', '0.691', '0.789', '0.737', '0.943', '0.752', '0.738'], ['Logistic Reg.', '0.049', '0.887', '0.092', '0.962', '0.735', '0.204'], ['Autoencoder', '0.003', '1.000', '0.007', '0.960', '0.044', '0.041'], ], 'Table II: Comprehensive Model Comparison on Test Set (threshold=0.5)' ) pdf.p( 'Observation 1 -- Tree models dominate: XGBoost achieves the highest PR-AUC (0.817), F1 (0.851), and MCC (0.852), confirming [9] ' 'that gradient-boosted trees remain strongest for tabular data. The Voting Ensemble achieves marginally higher ROC-AUC (0.978) ' 'but does not improve PR-AUC, suggesting insufficient member diversity.' ) pdf.p( 'Observation 2 -- Precision-recall tradeoff: Logistic Regression achieves high recall (0.887) but catastrophic precision (0.049), ' 'flagging 1,229 legitimate transactions. The aggressive class weight (300x) creates a boundary that is far too liberal, producing ' 'a flood of false alarms that would overwhelm any operational team.' ) pdf.p( 'Observation 3 -- Autoencoder failure: Perfect recall (1.0) but precision of only 0.003 (21,209 false positives). The PCA-transformed ' 'space causes the autoencoder to reconstruct dominant variance directions; fraud signals in minor components produce similar ' 'reconstruction errors to legitimate noise, making discrimination unreliable. PR-AUC of 0.044 is near-random.' ) pdf.p( 'Observation 4 -- Tuning: Optuna dramatically improved LightGBM (PR-AUC 0.012 to 0.796 by correcting over-aggressive ' 'scale_pos_weight). However, tuned XGBoost (0.793) slightly underperformed the base (0.817), suggesting the base was near-optimal.' ) pdf.fig(os.path.join(F, 'roc_curves.png'), 'Fig. 6. ROC curves for top 5 models (all ROC-AUC > 0.93).', w=115) pdf.fig(os.path.join(F, 'pr_curves.png'), 'Fig. 7. Precision-Recall curves. XGBoost achieves the highest AP (0.817).', w=115) pdf.fig(os.path.join(F, 'confusion_matrices.png'), 'Fig. 8. Confusion matrices. XGBoost: 57 TP, 6 FP -- best balance.', w=150) pdf.sub('B.', 'Threshold Optimization') pdf.p( 'A systematic threshold sweep (0.05 to 0.95) on XGBoost reveals an optimal threshold of 0.55, improving F1 from 0.851 to 0.864 ' 'and precision from 0.905 to 0.934 while maintaining identical recall (0.803). This is a Pareto improvement: borderline false ' 'positives are eliminated without losing any true positives. Above 0.85, recall degrades as the model becomes overly conservative.' ) pdf.fig(os.path.join(F, 'threshold_analysis.png'), 'Fig. 9. Threshold analysis: (a) Precision/Recall/F1, (b) MCC. Optimal F1 at 0.55.', w=135) pdf.sub('C.', 'Business Impact') pdf.p( 'Using average fraud amount $122.21 and $5/false alarm investigation cost, XGBoost yields the highest net savings ($6,936 on the ' '42,559-transaction test set), catching 80.3% of fraud with only 6 false alarms ($30 cost). Logistic Regression catches 88.7% but ' 'generates 1,229 false alarms ($6,145 cost), yielding only $1,554 net. The Autoencoder catches 100% but produces 21,209 false ' 'alarms at $106,045 -- a net loss of $97,368. This underscores that maximizing recall alone is operationally counterproductive.' ) pdf.tbl( ['Model', 'TP', 'FN', 'FP', 'Caught($)', 'FP Cost($)', 'Net($)'], [ ['XGBoost', '57', '14', '6', '6,966', '30', '6,936'], ['Ensemble', '57', '14', '9', '6,966', '45', '6,921'], ['LGBM-T', '58', '13', '24', '7,088', '120', '6,968'], ['LR', '63', '8', '1229', '7,699', '6,145', '1,554'], ['AE', '71', '0', '21209', '8,677', '106,045', '-97,368'], ], 'Table III: Business Impact Analysis' ) pdf.sub('D.', 'Explainability (SHAP and LIME)') pdf.p( 'SHAP analysis (2,000 test samples) reveals V4 (mean |SHAP|=1.913), V14 (1.843), and PCA_magnitude (1.113) as the dominant ' 'fraud predictors. High V4 values push toward fraud; low (negative) V14 values are strongly associated with fraud, consistent ' 'with EDA correlations. The engineered V10_V14_interaction ranks 9th, validating that interaction terms capture additional signal. ' 'LIME analysis on a correctly classified fraud sample (P=1.0) shows Time_diff, V4, V12, and V14 as the strongest local contributors, ' 'providing the granular instance-level explanation needed for regulatory compliance and analyst review.' ) pdf.fig(os.path.join(F, 'shap_summary.png'), 'Fig. 10. SHAP summary: each dot = one sample; color = feature value; x-axis = SHAP impact on fraud prediction.', w=130) pdf.fig(os.path.join(F, 'lime_explanation.png'), 'Fig. 11. LIME explanation for a single fraud sample (P=1.0). Red = increases fraud risk; green = decreases it.', w=130) # ===== VII. ERROR ANALYSIS ===== pdf.sec('VII', 'Error Analysis') pdf.sub('A.', 'False Negatives (Missed Fraud)') pdf.p( 'XGBoost misses 14 of 71 fraud transactions (19.7%). Their mean predicted probability is only 0.013 -- the model is highly ' 'confident they are legitimate, not borderline. Feature comparison explains why: FN transactions have V14 averaging -0.97 ' 'vs -8.45 for true positives, V12 at -0.41 vs -7.69, and PCA_magnitude of 1.82 vs 12.25. These missed cases have feature ' 'values dramatically closer to legitimate transactions, representing sophisticated fraud that mimics normal behavior. Lowering ' 'the threshold would not help: at 0.12, only one additional FN would be caught while generating many more false alarms. ' 'Catching these requires additional data sources (transaction sequences, device fingerprints, geography).' ) pdf.sub('B.', 'False Positives (False Alarms)') pdf.p( 'The 6 false positives have mean predicted probability 0.827 (some reaching 1.0). Their V14 averages -7.13 (vs -0.04 for TN) ' 'and PCA_magnitude 7.86 (vs 0.28 for TN). These legitimate transactions genuinely exhibit fraud-like anomalous patterns -- ' 'unusual but lawful spending (e.g., first-time purchases in unusual categories, international transactions). No model tuning can ' 'distinguish these without additional contextual information.' ) pdf.sub('C.', 'Concept Drift and Retraining') pdf.p( 'Comparing model confidence between early and late test periods reveals a drift indicator of +0.115. We recommend: (1) weekly ' 'PR-AUC monitoring on labeled data; (2) automated retraining when PR-AUC drops below 0.70; (3) sliding window training on 3-6 ' 'months of recent data; (4) PSI monitoring on all features (alert when PSI > 0.25); (5) A/B testing for model updates; ' '(6) quarterly fraud pattern reviews with domain experts.' ) pdf.fig(os.path.join(F, 'error_analysis.png'), 'Fig. 12. Error analysis: (a) FN probability distribution, (b) FP probability distribution, (c) score distribution by class.', w=150) # ===== VIII. LIMITATIONS ===== pdf.sec('VIII', 'Limitations') pdf.bullet([ 'PCA Anonymization: prevents domain-specific feature engineering (merchant, location, device) and limits interpretability.', 'Temporal Scope: only two days of data, limiting drift assessment and seasonal pattern detection.', 'Single-Institution: results may not generalize across banks, geographies, or payment networks.', 'Static Features: no sequential transaction history (spending velocity, merchant novelty) which are critical in production.', 'Static Threshold: optimal 0.55 was determined on test data and may shift; production needs dynamic adaptation.', 'Simple Autoencoder: more advanced architectures (VAE, adversarial) might improve anomaly detection performance.', ]) # ===== IX. FUTURE WORK ===== pdf.sec('IX', 'Future Work') pdf.p( 'Graph Neural Networks [19]: Modeling transaction networks as graphs enables fraud ring detection through suspicion propagation ' 'across connected accounts -- impossible from individual transaction features alone.' ) pdf.p( 'Real-Time Streaming: Integration with Apache Kafka and Flink would enable millions of transactions/second with consistent ' 'sub-100ms latency guarantees. Federated Learning [20]: collaborative training across banks without sharing raw data preserves ' 'privacy while expanding effective training sets for rare fraud types.' ) pdf.p( 'LLM-Generated Explanations: Large language models could translate SHAP values into natural-language justifications for blocked ' 'transactions, reducing analyst burden and satisfying regulatory requirements for explainable decisions.' ) pdf.p( 'Temporal Sequence Modeling: Transformers or LSTMs on cardholder transaction sequences could capture behavioral patterns and flag ' 'departures from established routines, treating fraud detection as time-series anomaly detection.' ) # ===== X. CONCLUSION ===== pdf.sec('X', 'Conclusion') pdf.p( 'This paper presents a comprehensive fraud detection framework evaluating seven ML approaches on the European Cardholder benchmark. ' 'XGBoost with cost-sensitive learning achieves best overall performance (PR-AUC 0.817, F1 0.851, MCC 0.852). Threshold optimization ' 'to 0.55 improves F1 to 0.864 without sacrificing recall. Business impact analysis shows XGBoost catches 80.3% of fraud with only ' '6 false alarms ($6,936 net savings), while the Autoencoder\'s 100% recall generates 21,000+ false alarms at $97,368 net loss.' ) pdf.p( 'SHAP and LIME identify V4, V14, and PCA_magnitude as primary fraud discriminators. Error analysis reveals that 14 missed fraud ' 'cases have feature profiles indistinguishable from legitimate transactions, requiring additional data sources to catch. The complete ' 'system -- feature engineering, training, evaluation, explainability, and FastAPI deployment with sub-10ms latency -- demonstrates ' 'that production-grade fraud detection is achievable with well-tuned classical ML. Tree-based ensembles, particularly XGBoost, ' 'remain state-of-the-art for tabular fraud detection, outperforming deep learning and linear alternatives on all metrics that ' 'matter for imbalanced classification.' ) # ===== REFERENCES ===== pdf.sec('', 'References') refs = [ '[1] A. Dal Pozzolo et al., "Calibrating probability with undersampling for unbalanced classification," IEEE CIDM, 2015.', '[2] N. V. Chawla et al., "SMOTE: Synthetic Minority Over-sampling Technique," JAIR, vol. 16, pp. 321-357, 2002.', '[3] A. Fernandez et al., Learning from Imbalanced Data Sets. Springer, 2018.', '[4] T. Chen and C. Guestrin, "XGBoost: A scalable tree boosting system," ACM SIGKDD, 2016.', '[5] G. Ke et al., "LightGBM: A highly efficient gradient boosting decision tree," NeurIPS, 2017.', '[6] A. Pumsirirat and L. Yan, "Credit card fraud detection using deep learning," IJACSA, vol. 9, 2018.', '[7] S. M. Lundberg and S.-I. 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