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<p>Smart contracts have revolutionized decentralized applications by automating agreement enforcement on blockchain platforms. However, detecting vulnerabilities in smart contract interactions remains challenging due to complex state interdependencies. This paper presents a novel approach using multi-agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) to identify smart contract vulnerabilities. We integrate a Hierarchical Graph Attention Network (HGAT) into a Multi-Agent Actor-Critic framework, decomposing vulnerability detection into complementary policies: a high-level policy encoding historical interactions and a low-level policy capturing structured actions within contract state spaces. By modeling interactions as multistep reasoning paths, our MARL framework effectively navigates complex transaction sequences and resolves semantic ambiguities across different contract states. Experimental evaluations on real-world blockchain datasets demonstrate significant improvements in detecting multiple vulnerability types. For reentrancy attacks, our model achieves 93.8% accuracy and an 89.8% F1 score. The framework also performs strongly in detecting front running (88.9% accuracy), denial-of-service attacks (91.2% accuracy), and unchecked low-level vulnerabilities (91.6% accuracy), outperforming existing approaches across all vulnerability categories.</p>

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A graph attention network-based multi-agent reinforcement learning framework for robust detection of smart contract vulnerabilities

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    2025年8月14日

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  • Philip Kwaku Adjei,
  • Qin Zhiguang,
  • Isaac Amankona Obiri,
  • Ansu Badjie,
  • Christian Nii Aflah Cobblah,
  • Ali Alqahtani,
  • Yeong Hyeon Gu,
  • Mugahed A. Al-antari

摘要

Smart contracts have revolutionized decentralized applications by automating agreement enforcement on blockchain platforms. However, detecting vulnerabilities in smart contract interactions remains challenging due to complex state interdependencies. This paper presents a novel approach using multi-agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) to identify smart contract vulnerabilities. We integrate a Hierarchical Graph Attention Network (HGAT) into a Multi-Agent Actor-Critic framework, decomposing vulnerability detection into complementary policies: a high-level policy encoding historical interactions and a low-level policy capturing structured actions within contract state spaces. By modeling interactions as multistep reasoning paths, our MARL framework effectively navigates complex transaction sequences and resolves semantic ambiguities across different contract states. Experimental evaluations on real-world blockchain datasets demonstrate significant improvements in detecting multiple vulnerability types. For reentrancy attacks, our model achieves 93.8% accuracy and an 89.8% F1 score. The framework also performs strongly in detecting front running (88.9% accuracy), denial-of-service attacks (91.2% accuracy), and unchecked low-level vulnerabilities (91.6% accuracy), outperforming existing approaches across all vulnerability categories.