4 papers
FedRio: Personalized Federated Social Bot Detection via Cooperative Reinforced Contrastive Adversarial Distillation
Yingguang Yang, Hao Liu, Xin Zhang +8
Social bot detection is critical to the stability and security of online social platforms. However, current state-of-the-art bot detection models are largely developed in isolation…
Certainly Bot Or Not? Trustworthy Social Bot Detection via Robust Multi-Modal Neural Processes
Qi Wu, Yingguang Yang, hao liu +4
Social bot detection is crucial for mitigating misinformation, online manipulation, and coordinated inauthentic behavior. While existing neural network-based detectors perform well…
RoBCtrl: Attacking GNN-Based Social Bot Detectors via Reinforced Manipulation of Bots Control Interaction
Yingguang Yang, Xianghua Zeng, Qi Wu +5
Social networks have become a crucial source of real-time information for individuals. The influence of social bots within these platforms has garnered considerable attention from…
Boosting Bot Detection via Heterophily-Aware Representation Learning and Prototype-Guided Cluster Discovery
Buyun He, Xiaorui Jiang, Qi Wu +3
Detecting social media bots is essential for maintaining the security and trustworthiness of social networks. While contemporary graph-based detection methods demonstrate promising…