Ai-powered fraud detection in decentralized finance: A project life cycle perspective

B Luo, Z Zhang, Q Wang, A Ke, S Lu, B He - ACM Computing Surveys, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Decentralized finance (DeFi) represents a novel financial system but faces significant fraud
challenges, leading to substantial losses. Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) …

Large language model-powered smart contract vulnerability detection: New perspectives

S Hu, T Huang, F Ilhan, SF Tekin… - 2023 5th IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper provides a systematic analysis of the opportunities, challenges, and potential
solutions of harnessing Large Language Models (LLMs) such as GPT-4 to dig out …

DenseFlow: Spotting cryptocurrency money laundering in ethereum transaction graphs

D Lin, J Wu, Y Yu, Q Fu, Z Zheng, C Yang - Proceedings of the ACM Web …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
In recent years, money laundering crimes on blockchain, especially on Ethereum, have
become increasingly rampant, resulting in substantial losses. The unique features of money …

Harmful fine-tuning attacks and defenses for large language models: A survey

T Huang, S Hu, F Ilhan, SF Tekin, L Liu - arxiv preprint arxiv:2409.18169, 2024 - arxiv.org
Recent research demonstrates that the nascent fine-tuning-as-a-service business model
exposes serious safety concerns--fine-tuning over a few harmful data uploaded by the users …

Zipzap: Efficient training of language models for large-scale fraud detection on blockchain

S Hu, T Huang, KH Chow, W Wei, Y Wu… - Proceedings of the ACM …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Language models (LMs) have demonstrated superior performance in detecting fraudulent
activities on Blockchains. Nonetheless, the sheer volume of Blockchain data results in …

State-of-the-Art Object Detection: An Overview of YOLO Variants and their Performance

L Dhruthi, PK Megharaj, P Pranav… - … on Smart Electronics …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A fundamental component of computer vision is object detection, and the state-of-the-art
object detection algorithm YOLO (You Only Look Once), which uses regression as its …

Lisa: Lazy safety alignment for large language models against harmful fine-tuning attack

T Huang, S Hu, F Ilhan, SF Tekin, L Liu - arxiv preprint arxiv:2405.18641, 2024 - arxiv.org
Recent studies show that Large Language Models (LLMs) with safety alignment can be jail-
broken by fine-tuning on a dataset mixed with harmful data. First time in the literature, we …

Panning for gold. eth: Understanding and Analyzing ENS Domain Dropcatching

M Muzammil, Z Wu, A Balasubramanian… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Ethereum Name Service (ENS) domains allow users to map human-readable names (such
as gold. eth) to their cryptocurrency addresses, simplifying cryptocurrency transactions. Like …

Airdrops: Giving money away is harder than it seems

J Messias, A Yaish, B Livshits - arxiv preprint arxiv:2312.02752, 2023 - arxiv.org
Airdrops are a common strategy used by blockchain protocols to attract and grow an initial
user base. Tokens are typically distributed to select users as a" reward" for engaging with …

ARTEMIS: Detecting Airdrop Hunters in NFT Markets with a Graph Learning System

C Zhou, H Chen, H Wu, J Zhang, W Cai - Proceedings of the ACM Web …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
As Web3 projects leverage airdrops to incentivize participation, airdrop hunters tactically
amass wallet addresses to capitalize on token giveaways. This poses challenges to the …