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SACRAMENTO, Calif., Aug. 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — As the Fede al Bu eau of I vestigatio epo ts that Ame ica s lost mo e tha $16.6 billio to digital fi a cial scams i 2024, a 370% i c ease ove five yea s, i depe de t AI esea che a d compute scie ce g aduate Qi Hu has had two studies accepted at the 2026 I te atio al Co fe e ce o I tellige t Computi g (ICIC 2026) i To o to, Ca ada, each ta geti g a tech ical gap that allows fi a cial f aud to flou ish.
Hu, who specializes i fi a cial i tellige ce a d compute visio , will p ese t two f amewo ks — P otoHGC a d RoR-CV — at the co fe e ce o July 22–26, 2026. Both add ess p oblems U.S. egulato s have flagged as c itical weak esses i the atio ‘s fi a cial i f ast uctu e: detecti g sophisticated f aud, a d maki g AI-d ive fi a cial decisio s explai able a d auditable. The pape s we e selected th ough ICIC’s pee eview p ocess a d will be published by Sp i ge i its Lectu e Notes i Compute Scie ce (LNCS) se ies.
Despite the scale of the c isis, with ove 76% of U.S. o ga izatio s expe ie ci g attempted o actual payme t f aud i 2025, a d o ly 17% cu e tly usi g AI to combat it, fi a cial i stitutio s co ti ue to st uggle with detecti g sophisticated f aud patte s hidde withi complex t a sactio etwo ks.
P otoHGC maps out the web of co ectio s o a digital payme t platfo m — how accou ts, t a sactio s, a d timi g elate to o e a othe — to spot the patte s that sig al f aud. Because it lea s what suspicious activity looks like f om the st uctu e of the data itself, it ca flag f aud eve whe the e a e few co fi med examples to lea f om. I be chma k testi g, P otoHGC detected f aud mo e accu ately tha the leadi g alte ative methods ac oss eve y measu e evaluated, acco di g to Hu.
U.S. fi a cial egulato s have i c easi gly emphasized explai ability a d auditability as p e equisites fo espo sible AI deployme t i fi a cial se vices. Co ve tio al systems ofte p oduce accu ate outputs without t aceable atio ales, a c itical liability i egulated e vi o me ts.
RoR-CV b i gs togethe th ee thi gs a huma a alyst would use — cha ts a d fi a cial epo ts, a u de sta di g of cause a d effect, a d awa e ess of shifti g ma ket co ditio s — i to a si gle tool that ecomme ds i vestme ts a d explai s its easo i g. It eads the figu es i cha ts a d epo ts, t aces how b oad eco omic eve ts ipple dow to affect specific compa ies a d assets, a d adjusts how much weight it gives visual data as ma kets g ow mo e volatile. Acco di g to Hu, i testi g, RoR-CV made mo e accu ate a d bette -explai ed ecomme datio s tha existi g tools, i cludi g du i g dow tu s a d tu bule t ma kets.
These accepta ces build o Hu’s ea lie pee – eviewed wo k, i cludi g a method fo lo g-seque ce video object segme tatio published i IEEE Sig al P ocessi g Lette s (2026), a AI isk-co t ol system fo o li e le di g p ese ted at a ACM co fe e ce (2025), a d a fi a cial ecomme datio tool that outpe fo med a leadi g i dust y model by oughly 10–12% o sta da d accu acy measu es. Hu’s published esea ch has bee cited 44 times, a d she se ves as a pee eviewe fo jou als i cludi g IEEE Access, Patte Recog itio Lette s (Elsevie ), a d I fo matica.
“The combi atio of g aph-based f aud detectio , explai able multimodal ecomme datio , a d AI-d ive isk ma ageme t ep ese ts a comp ehe sive app oach to o e of the most p essi g challe ges i U.S. fi a cial tech ology,” said Qi Hu.
The I te atio al Co fe e ce o I tellige t Computi g (ICIC) is a a ual gathe i g of esea che s i a tificial i tellige ce a d elated fields, ow i its 22 d editio . The 2026 co fe e ce takes place July 22–26 i To o to, Ca ada, b i gi g togethe academics a d p actitio e s to p ese t ew wo k ac oss machi e lea i g, compute visio , a d applied AI.
Pape s accepted at ICIC a e published by Sp i ge i its Lectu e Notes i Compute Scie ce (LNCS) a d Lectu e Notes i A tificial I tellige ce (LNAI) se ies, lo g-established efe e ces i the field.
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