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AI Research 71% 1 min readJun 25, 2026, 6:00 PM

The Hot Path Belongs to GBDTs, Agents Own the Cold Path: A Payment-Fraud Benchmark

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A benchmark study compares Gradient Boosted Decision Trees (GBDTs) and AI agents for payment-fraud detection, highlighting GBDTs' efficiency in high-throughput scenarios and agents' superiority in complex, low-frequency cases.

The Hot Path Belongs to GBDTs, Agents Own the Cold Path: A Payment-Fraud Benchmark
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A reproducible benchmark on latency, cost, and reproducibility, and where agents actually earn their keep.

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