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Study shows impersonators generate fake engagement on Instagram.

problem Impersonators exploit Instagram for fake engagement.
method Examined three communities (Politician, News agency, Sports star) on Instagram, collected data on 4.8K comments and 2.6K likes from 3.8K impersonators over 7 months.
result Impersonators generate significant fake engagement on verified accounts.

Conventional surveillance systems for monitoring infectious diseases, such as influenza, face challenges due to shortage of skilled healthcare professionals, remoteness of communities and absence of communication infrastructures. Internet-based approaches for surveillance are appealing logistically as well as economica…

2018-11-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Fake engagement is one of the significant problems in Online Social Networks (OSNs) which is used to increase the popularity of an account in an inorganic manner. The detection of fake engagement is crucial because it leads to loss of money for businesses, wrong audience targeting in advertising, wrong product predicti…

2019-09-13abs ↗pdf ↗

The fashion industry is establishing its presence on a number of visual-centric social media like Instagram. This creates an interesting clash as fashion brands that have traditionally practiced highly creative and editorialized image marketing now have to engage with people on the platform that epitomizes impromptu, r…

2017-04-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Systematic review of ML models for detecting social media deception.

problem Detecting fake news, spam, and fake accounts on social media.
method 36 studies evaluated using PROBAST tool, identifying biases and limitations.
result Over-reliance on accuracy in imbalanced data settings is a flaw.

Study estimates long-term effects of online advertising mechanisms on user behavior and revenue.

problem Estimating long-term treatment effects in online advertising systems.
method Modeling treatment effects as a stopped random walk, using experimental design, and statistical methods.
result Confidence intervals for long-term treatment effects constructed using statistical techniques.

New algorithm poLinUCB improves online learning in content recommendation platforms.

problem Improving efficiency in content recommendation platforms with post-serving context.
method Novel contextual bandit problem with post-serving contexts and a new algorithm, poLinUCB.
result Achieves tight regret under standard assumptions and significant benefit of utilizing post-serving contexts.

Tool detects tax evasion on social media using multi-modal deep learning.

problem Detecting tax evasion on social media platforms.
method Developed a multi-modal deep neural network combining comments, hashtags, and images.
result Multi-modal deep neural network achieved AUC of 0.808 and F1 score of 0.762.

We investigate the robustness properties of ResNeXt class image recognition models trained with billion scale weakly supervised data (ResNeXt WSL models). These models, recently made public by Facebook AI, were trained with ~1B images from Instagram and fine-tuned on ImageNet. We show that these models display an unpre…

2019-07-17abs ↗pdf ↗