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Matching Accounts on Blockchain via Pseudo Fine-tuning of Language Models

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Sihao Hu *
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Tiansheng Huang
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Fatih İlhan
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Selim Furkan Tekin
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Margaret L. Loper
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Ling Liu
DOI:10.1145/3773906delete
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Web 3.0, built on blockchain technology, prioritizes user privacy and autonomy, presenting new opportunities for financial systems while also complicating the regulation of illicit activities. In this study, we present a novel infrastructure named Pseudo Fine-tuning (PFT) that provides account matching services to combat financial crimes on account-based blockchains such as money laundering through coin-mixing services. The significance of PFT lies in overcoming the need for real labels to fine-tune language models for account matching, given the limited availability of labeled account pairs for the task. Specifically, our design involves (1) crafting pseudo-labeled pairs from transactions of an account across different periods, and (2) fine-tuning language models to distill knowledge from pseudo pairs, which is transferable to the target task. We provide an in-depth analysis to investigate the inherent knowledge acquired during the PFT process and the conditions conducive to its effectiveness. Comprehensive experiments on real-world datasets collected from coin-mixing services and ENS name services, corroborate that the framework delivers pronounced enhancements over state-of-the-art approaches. Our implementation is released at https://github.com/git-disl/PFT.
Keywords:
Language models
Pseudo fine-tuning
Matching accounts
Blockchain security

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ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology cover
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology
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university system of georgia
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