I am attempting to use time-series classification algorithms for fraud detection applications. I have came across several works in the literature that propose novel techniques for multivariate time-series classification, however, most of these approaches treat each feature as an individual signal.
Now, my processing of my data transforms a transactions dataset into a tensor; 1 dimension where each observation is an account, 1 dimension where each element is a transaction and 1 dimension for the transaction attributes. The transactions dataset has a large number of features, many of which are one-hot encoded categorical variables. Therefore, I am not really sure that multivariate time-series classification algorithms such as CNN or LSTM will work in this case, since it will treat every one-hot encoded feature as a signal on its own.
What would be an alternative approach in this case? Would applying PCA on the data to capture the most significant features help instead of the ordinary features?
