Fine-Tuning AI for Financial Services: Risk Prediction and Fraud Detection Training Course
Fine-tuning is the process of adapting pre-trained AI models to specific domains and datasets.
This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at advanced-level data scientists and AI engineers in the financial sector who wish to fine-tune models for applications such as credit scoring, fraud detection, and risk modeling using domain-specific financial data.
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
- Fine-tune AI models on financial datasets for improved fraud and risk prediction.
- Apply techniques such as transfer learning, LoRA, and regularization to enhance model efficiency.
- Integrate financial compliance considerations into the AI modeling workflow.
- Deploy fine-tuned models for production use in financial services platforms.
Format of the Course
- Interactive lecture and discussion.
- Lots of exercises and practice.
- Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.
Course Customization Options
- To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.
Course Outline
Introduction to AI in Financial Services
- Use cases: fraud detection, credit scoring, compliance monitoring
- Regulatory considerations and risk frameworks
- Overview of fine-tuning in high-risk environments
Preparing Financial Data for Fine-Tuning
- Sources: transaction logs, customer demographics, behavioral data
- Data privacy, anonymization, and secure processing
- Feature engineering for tabular and time-series data
Model Fine-Tuning Techniques
- Transfer learning and model adaptation to financial data
- Domain-specific loss functions and metrics
- Using LoRA and adapter tuning for efficient updates
Risk Prediction Modeling
- Predictive modeling for loan default and credit scoring
- Balancing interpretability vs. performance
- Handling imbalanced datasets in risk scenarios
Fraud Detection Applications
- Building anomaly detection pipelines with fine-tuned models
- Real-time vs. batch fraud prediction strategies
- Hybrid models: rule-based + AI-driven detection
Evaluation and Explainability
- Model evaluation: precision, recall, F1, AUC-ROC
- SHAP, LIME, and other explainability tools
- Auditing and compliance reporting with fine-tuned models
Deployment and Monitoring in Production
- Integrating fine-tuned models into financial platforms
- CI/CD pipelines for AI in banking systems
- Monitoring drift, retraining, and lifecycle management
Summary and Next Steps
Requirements
- An understanding of supervised learning techniques
- Experience with Python-based machine learning frameworks
- Familiarity with financial datasets such as transaction logs, credit scores, or KYC data
Audience
- Data scientists in financial services
- AI engineers working with fintech or banking institutions
- Machine learning professionals building risk or fraud models
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