BotDGT: Dynamicity-aware Social Bot Detection with Dynamic Graph Transformers

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15070v2
• Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 08:01:53 GMT
• Title: BotDGT: Dynamicity-aware Social Bot Detection with Dynamic Graph Transformers
• Authors: Buyun He, Yingguang Yang, Qi Wu, Hao Liu, Renyu Yang, Hao Peng, Xiang Wang, Yong Liao, Pengyuan Zhou,
• Abstract summary: BotDGT is a novel framework that considers the topological structure, but also effectively incorporates dynamic nature of social network. A structural module is employed to acquire topological information from each historical snapshot. A temporal module is proposed to integrate historical context and model the evolving behavior patterns exhibited by social bots and legitimate users.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Detecting social bots has evolved into a pivotal yet intricate task, aimed at combating the dissemination of misinformation and preserving the authenticity of online interactions. While earlier graph-based approaches, which leverage topological structure of social networks, yielded notable outcomes, they overlooked the inherent dynamicity of social networks -- In reality, they largely depicted the social network as a static graph and solely relied on its most recent state. Due to the absence of dynamicity modeling, such approaches are vulnerable to evasion, particularly when advanced social bots interact with other users to camouflage identities and escape detection. To tackle these challenges, we propose BotDGT, a novel framework that not only considers the topological structure, but also effectively incorporates dynamic nature of social network. Specifically, we characterize a social network as a dynamic graph. A structural module is employed to acquire topological information from each historical snapshot. Additionally, a temporal module is proposed to integrate historical context and model the evolving behavior patterns exhibited by social bots and legitimate users. Experimental results demonstrate the superiority of BotDGT against the leading methods that neglected the dynamic nature of social networks in terms of accuracy, recall, and F1-score.

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