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DOI: 10.14569/IJACSA.2024.01510110
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Enhancing Credit Card Fraud Detection Using a Stacking Model Approach and Hyperparameter Optimization

Author 1: El Bazi Abdelghafour
Author 2: Chrayah Mohamed
Author 3: Aknin Noura
Author 4: Bouzidi Abdelhamid

International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), Volume 15 Issue 10, 2024.

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Abstract: Credit card fraud detection has emerged as a crucial area of study, especially with the rise in online transactions coupled with increased financial losses from fraudulent activities. In this regard, a refined framework for identifying credit card fraud is introduced, utilizing a stacking ensemble model along with hyperparameter optimization. This paper integrates three highly effective algorithms—XGBoost, CatBoost, and Light-GBM—into a single strategy to improve predictive performance and address the issue of unbalanced datasets. To enable a more efficient search and adjustment of model parameters, Bayesian Optimization is employed for hyperparameter tuning. The proposed approach has been tested on a publicly accessible dataset. Results indicate notable enhancements over established baseline models in essential performance metrics, including ROC-AUC, precision, and recall. This method, while effective in fraud detection, holds significant promise for other fields focused on identifying rare occurrences.

Keywords: Credit card fraud detection; stacking models; hyperparameter tuning; logistic regression; ensemble learning

El Bazi Abdelghafour, Chrayah Mohamed, Aknin Noura and Bouzidi Abdelhamid, “Enhancing Credit Card Fraud Detection Using a Stacking Model Approach and Hyperparameter Optimization” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 15(10), 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2024.01510110

@article{Abdelghafour2024,
title = {Enhancing Credit Card Fraud Detection Using a Stacking Model Approach and Hyperparameter Optimization},
journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2024.01510110},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2024.01510110},
year = {2024},
publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
volume = {15},
number = {10},
author = {El Bazi Abdelghafour and Chrayah Mohamed and Aknin Noura and Bouzidi Abdelhamid}
}



Copyright Statement: This is an open access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, even commercially as long as the original work is properly cited.

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