Certainly Bot Or Not? Trustworthy Social Bot Detection via Robust Multi-Modal Neural Processes

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.09626v1
• Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 01:32:52 GMT
• Title: Certainly Bot Or Not? Trustworthy Social Bot Detection via Robust Multi-Modal Neural Processes
• Authors: Qi Wu, Yingguang Yang, hao liu, Hao Peng, Buyun He, Yutong Xia, Yong Liao,
• Abstract summary: Social bot detection is crucial for mitigating misinformation, online manipulation, and coordinated inauthentic behavior.<n>Existing neural network-based detectors struggle with generalization due to distribution shifts across datasets.<n>We introduce a novel Uncertainty Estimation for Social Bot Detection framework, which quantifies the predictive uncertainty of detectors beyond mere classification.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Social bot detection is crucial for mitigating misinformation, online manipulation, and coordinated inauthentic behavior. While existing neural network-based detectors perform well on benchmarks, they struggle with generalization due to distribution shifts across datasets and frequently produce overconfident predictions for out-of-distribution accounts beyond the training data. To address this, we introduce a novel Uncertainty Estimation for Social Bot Detection (UESBD) framework, which quantifies the predictive uncertainty of detectors beyond mere classification. For this task, we propose Robust Multi-modal Neural Processes (RMNP), which aims to enhance the robustness of multi-modal neural processes to modality inconsistencies caused by social bot camouflage. RMNP first learns unimodal representations through modality-specific encoders. Then, unimodal attentive neural processes are employed to encode the Gaussian distribution of unimodal latent variables. Furthermore, to avoid social bots stealing human features to camouflage themselves thus causing certain modalities to provide conflictive information, we introduce an evidential gating network to explicitly model the reliability of modalities. The joint latent distribution is learned through the generalized product of experts, which takes the reliability of each modality into consideration during fusion. The final prediction is obtained through Monte Carlo sampling of the joint latent distribution followed by a decoder. Experiments on three real-world benchmarks show the effectiveness of RMNP in classification and uncertainty estimation, as well as its robustness to modality conflicts.

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