A transfer metric learning method for spammer detection

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Abstract

Microblogs open opportunities for social spammers, who are threatening for microblog services and normal users. Therefore, detecting spammers is an essential task in social network mining. However, existing methods are difficult to achieve desired performance in real applications. The underlying causes are the insufficiency of knowledge learned from limited training examples and the differences between data distributions on training and test examples. To address these, in this paper, we present a transfer metric learning method to extract more informative knowledge underlying training instances by similarity learning and transfer this knowledge to test instances using importance sampling in a unified framework. We evaluate the proposed method on real-world data. Results show that our method outperforms many baselines.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationTrends and Applications in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining - PAKDD 2018 Workshops, BDASC, BDM, ML4Cyber, PAISI, DaMEMO, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsMohadeseh Ganji, Lida Rashidi, Benjamin C.M. Fung, Can Wang
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages174-180
Number of pages7
ISBN (Print)9783030045029
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018
Event22nd Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2018 - Melbourne, Australia
Duration: 3 Jun 20183 Jun 2018

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume11154 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference22nd Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2018
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CityMelbourne
Period3/06/183/06/18

Keywords

  • Metric learning
  • Spammer detection
  • Transfer learning

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