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Coordinated fraud is modeled as a sparse-ring pattern, where a completed directed cycle is split across multiple days and must be detected by integrating evidence over both time and graph structure. Daily directed graphs are aggregated into rolling windows and encoded with raw graph features, persistent-homology summaries, or hybrid vectors. A GRU baseline is compared with Contextual Machine Learning (CML), showing that topology alone is too compressed for ring completion, while identity-preserving hybrid representations perform best.","arXiv :2607 .09704v1 [ cs .LG] 22 Jun 2026  \nQuantum-Inspired Contextual Learning for Sparse-Ring Fraud Detection in Dynamic Transaction Graphs  \nBehnam Tonekaboni 1 and Hiroshi Yamauchi2  \n1 Infleqtion Australia, Melbourne  \n2 SoftBank Corp. , Japan, Tokyo  \nAbstract  \nWe present an exploratory benchmark and quantum-inspired modeling prototype for fraud screening in dynamic financial transaction graphs. Coordinated fraud may not be visible from individual transactions alone, but may emerge as a multi-period relational pattern. We focus on sparse-ring fraud, a stylized pattern in which a completed directed cycle is distributed across several days, requiring models to integrate evidence across both time and graph structure. We study this problem using a synthetic transaction simulator with completed sparse-ring injections and broken-ring decoys. Daily directed transaction graphs are aggregated into rolling windows and represented using raw graph features, persistent-homology summaries, or hybrid feature vectors that combine both. We compare a gated recurrent unit (GRU) baseline with quantum-inspired Contextual Machine Learning (CML) as sequence-level classifiers. Because the benchmark uses synthetic data, a modest sample size, and sequence-level labels, the results are exploratory. Within this scope, topology-only summaries are too compressed to solve the supervised ring-completion task by themselves, largely because they remove account-pair identity and edge direction. The strongest results come from hybrid representations that combine identitypreserving graph features with topological summaries. These findings suggest that topology is most useful as a contextual layer over dynamic graph features, and that CML is a promising candidate model for fraud patterns whose evidence is distributed across temporal and relational context.  \nKeywords: Fraud detection; dynamic transaction graphs; sparse-ring fraud; quantum-inspired machine learning; Contextual Machine Learning; topological data analysis; persistent homology; sequence classification.  \n1 Introduction  \nFinancial fraud is often both relational and temporal. A single transaction may appear ordinary when viewed in isolation, while a sequence of transactions among multiple accounts may reveal coordinated movement of funds, layering behavior, circular transfers, or other suspicious structures. This motivates a dynamical graph-based view of fraud detection, in which accounts are represented as vertices, transactions as directed weighted edges, and suspicious behavior as a pattern in a dynamic transaction network [1, 2] .  \nIn this paper we use a controlled benchmark to study fraud detection in dynamic transaction graphs. We first asks whether a completed sparse ring—a small directed cycle whose edges are distributed across several days—can be detected as a temporal graph pattern. Then we examines two related comparative questions. First, we ask whether quantum-inspired Contextual Machine  \nLearning (CML) [3] can detect fraud patterns whose evidence is distributed across time and relational structure as effectively as, or better than, a conventional recurrent sequence model such as a gated recurrent unit (GRU) . Second, we ask whether topological summaries of transaction graphs provide useful additional context for this detection task. Although the sparse-ring pattern is intentionally simplified, it captures an important detection challenge. Each edge may resemble an ordinary transaction when observed within a single day, while the fraud signal becomes apparent only after evidence is integrated across a rolling temporal window.  \nThis setting motivates the use of quantum-inspired CML [3] together with topology-based graph features. We treat CML as a sequence-level classifier for patterns whose significance depends on temporal and relational context, and we use topological summaries to test whether graph shape adds useful information beyond raw transaction features. The goal is the","cbCaifc4qg4jlz76","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifc4qg4jlz76","pdf",421799,1,23,"English","en",105,"# Introduction\n## Research scope and contributions","[{\"question\":\"What is the sparse-ring fraud pattern and why is it difficult to detect?\",\"answer\":\"A sparse-ring fraud completes a directed cycle whose edges are distributed across several days. Each daily transaction can look ordinary in isolation, so the fraud becomes detectable only after integrating temporal evidence and graph structure.\"},{\"question\":\"How are dynamic transaction graphs represented for the experiments?\",\"answer\":\"Daily directed transaction graphs are aggregated into rolling temporal windows. 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