SHAP-Pruned XGBoost for mobile money fraud detection in Ghana
# SP-XGBoost: SHAP-Pruned XGBoost for Mobile Money Fraud Detection in Ghana
Engineered XGBoost variant that prunes the bottom ~30% of features by mean
absolute SHAP value, targeting equal detection performance at lower inference
cost. Hybrid data: PaySim + ethically-cleared Ghanaian field records.
## Status
Proposal stage — baseline and engineered-model notebooks to follow.
## Planned structure
- data/ (no raw field data committed — see ethics)
- notebooks/ (01_baseline.ipynb, 02_sp_xgboost.ipynb, 03_evaluation.ipynb)
- requirements.txt
## Author
Ameyaw Albert Adofo , Dept. of Computer Science, KNUST