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The biggest problem with ML is that it takes time for it to react to the new fraud patterns/schemes.

The biggest problem with ML is that it takes time for it to react to the new fraud patterns/schemes. While rules engines have their limitations, they also have one big benefit: they allow to block recognized fraud really fast. So the actual question here is whether the ML for detecting fraud is better than a flexible rules engine and goods analysts/statisticians. In my personal experience, statistical analysis and anomalies detection effectively handles majority of the fraud. I would be interested to see a more detailed analysis of Sift Science performance with some numbers for false positives/false negatives for example, though (of course) it is probably proprietary information.

Posted by lsh123 on May 14, 2014, 11:45 PM

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The biggest problem with ML is that it takes time for it to react to the new fraud patterns/schemes.

lsh123May 14, 2014, 11:45 PM

The biggest problem with ML is that it takes time for it to react to the new fraud patterns/schemes. While rules engines have their limitations, they also have one big benefit: they allow to block recognized fraud really fast. So the actual question here is whether the ML for detecting fraud is better than a flexible rules engine and goods analysts/statisticians. In my personal experience, statistical analysis and anomalies detection effectively handles majority of the fraud. I would be interested to see a more detailed analysis of Sift Science performance with some numbers for false positives/false negatives for example, though (of course) it is probably proprietary information.

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