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Main Authors: Wang, Yuhan, Yan, Ruobing, Su, Zhe, Chen, Hejing, Sang, Ningjing, Nie, Yunfei
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Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.26216
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author Wang, Yuhan
Yan, Ruobing
Su, Zhe
Chen, Hejing
Sang, Ningjing
Nie, Yunfei
author_facet Wang, Yuhan
Yan, Ruobing
Su, Zhe
Chen, Hejing
Sang, Ningjing
Nie, Yunfei
contents This paper addresses the problem of anomaly detection in accounting subject association structures, proposing a structured modeling and unsupervised discriminant framework based on graph neural networks. This framework is used to mine stable correspondences between subjects and identify structural deviations from general ledger details and voucher entries. The method first abstracts accounting subjects as graph nodes, and the co-occurrence and debit/credit correspondence of subjects in the same business record are abstracted as weighted edges. The edge weights are characterized by statistical measures such as co-occurrence frequency or amount aggregation, thus forming a period-level accounting subject association graph. In the representation learning stage, a message passing mechanism is used to fuse the node's own attributes and neighborhood context to obtain node embeddings containing structural information. In the anomaly detection stage, the rationality of subject pair connections is estimated through a relation reconstruction decoder, and edge-level anomaly scores are defined based on the degree of deviation in reconstruction probabilities. These scores are then aggregated to obtain node-level risk ranking and local anomaly localization. This framework can simultaneously capture local substructure anomalies and cross-community anomaly connections without relying on anomaly labeling, outputting traceable subject pair risk clues. Comparative experiments demonstrate more stable comprehensive discriminant capabilities and higher top-ranking accuracy.
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spellingShingle Unsupervised Graph Modeling for Anomaly Detection in Accounting Subject Relationships
Wang, Yuhan
Yan, Ruobing
Su, Zhe
Chen, Hejing
Sang, Ningjing
Nie, Yunfei
Machine Learning
This paper addresses the problem of anomaly detection in accounting subject association structures, proposing a structured modeling and unsupervised discriminant framework based on graph neural networks. This framework is used to mine stable correspondences between subjects and identify structural deviations from general ledger details and voucher entries. The method first abstracts accounting subjects as graph nodes, and the co-occurrence and debit/credit correspondence of subjects in the same business record are abstracted as weighted edges. The edge weights are characterized by statistical measures such as co-occurrence frequency or amount aggregation, thus forming a period-level accounting subject association graph. In the representation learning stage, a message passing mechanism is used to fuse the node's own attributes and neighborhood context to obtain node embeddings containing structural information. In the anomaly detection stage, the rationality of subject pair connections is estimated through a relation reconstruction decoder, and edge-level anomaly scores are defined based on the degree of deviation in reconstruction probabilities. These scores are then aggregated to obtain node-level risk ranking and local anomaly localization. This framework can simultaneously capture local substructure anomalies and cross-community anomaly connections without relying on anomaly labeling, outputting traceable subject pair risk clues. Comparative experiments demonstrate more stable comprehensive discriminant capabilities and higher top-ranking accuracy.
title Unsupervised Graph Modeling for Anomaly Detection in Accounting Subject Relationships
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.26216