Can machine learning models for recommendation be easily fooled? While the question has been answered for hand-engineered fake user profiles, it has not been explored for machine learned adversarial attacks. This paper attempts to close this gap. We propose a framework for generating fake user profiles which, when inco…
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Study tackles ranking fraud in online platforms by learning robust rankings.
problem Fraudulent fake users manipulate product rankings.
method Developed algorithms for robust ranking in two informational environments.
result Our algorithms converge to optimal rankings, robust to fake users.
Nowadays, Internet is a primary source of attaining health information. Massive fake health news which is spreading over the Internet, has become a severe threat to public health. Numerous studies and research works have been done in fake news detection domain, however, few of them are designed to cope with the challen…
Study detects fake news in Brazilian Portuguese using machine learning.
problem Spread of misinformation through fake news in Brazilian Portuguese.
method Machine learning, TF-IDF, Word2Vec, classification algorithms.
result High accuracy and F1-Score in identifying fake news.
This article presents a preliminary approach towards characterizing political fake news on Twitter through the analysis of their meta-data. In particular, we focus on more than 1.5M tweets collected on the day of the election of Donald Trump as 45th president of the United States of America. We use the meta-data embedd…
Recommender system is an important component of many web services to help users locate items that match their interests. Several studies showed that recommender systems are vulnerable to poisoning attacks, in which an attacker injects fake data to a given system such that the system makes recommendations as the attacke…
Framework detects fake news using weak social signals from multiple sources.
problem Lack of annotated data for early fake news detection.
method Jointly uses weak social signals and clean data to train deep neural networks in a meta-learning framework.
result Framework outperforms state-of-the-art baselines for early fake news detection.
Data poisoning attacks can manipulate recommender systems to recommend target items.
problem Attacks on recommender systems to influence top-N item recommendations.
method Formulated as an optimization problem, solved using influence function to select influential users.
result Effective data poisoning attacks that outperform existing methods.
New method improves reliability of recommender systems in face of fake accounts and manipulation.
problem Improving reliability of recommender systems in the presence of fake accounts and manipulation.
method Robust Discrete Matrix Completion (RDMC) method designed to handle sparse rating data and manipulation.
result Evaluations show RDMC offers a statistically-sound blueprint for future studies on recommender systems.
This paper improves attacks on recommender systems by solving optimization problems more precisely.
problem Adversarial injection attacks on recommender systems.
method Solving optimization problems for generating fake user interactions more accurately.
result The exact solution for generating fake users leads to a much larger impact on recommender systems.
GCAN detects fake news on social media with explanations.
problem Detecting fake news on social media with explanations.
method Graph-aware Co-Attention Networks (GCAN).
result GCAN significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods in accuracy.
In recent years, due to the booming development of online social networks, fake news for various commercial and political purposes has been appearing in large numbers and widespread in the online world. With deceptive words, online social network users can get infected by these online fake news easily, which has brough…
The proliferation of fake news on social media has opened up new directions of research for timely identification and containment of fake news, and mitigation of its widespread impact on public opinion. While much of the earlier research was focused on identification of fake news based on its contents or by exploiting …
Social media are nowadays one of the main news sources for millions of people around the globe due to their low cost, easy access and rapid dissemination. This however comes at the cost of dubious trustworthiness and significant risk of exposure to 'fake news', intentionally written to mislead the readers. Automaticall…
Efficiently models agent dependencies in large social networks.
problem Challenges in incorporating inter-agent dependencies in social reinforcement learning models.
method Clusters users based on payoff and contribution, combines cluster-level policies with personalized agent-level policies, and uses dynamic clustering.
result Our approach learns more accurate policy estimates and converges more quickly than existing methods.
Nowadays, collaborative filtering recommender systems have been widely deployed in many commercial companies to make profit. Neighbourhood-based collaborative filtering is common and effective. To date, despite its effectiveness, there has been little effort to explore their robustness and the impact of data poisoning …
The proliferation of fake news and filter bubbles makes it increasingly difficult to form an unbiased, balanced opinion towards a topic. To ameliorate this, we propose 360° Stance Detection, a tool that aggregates news with multiple perspectives on a topic. It presents them on a spectrum ranging from support to opposit…
IdeoTrace: A Framework for Ideology Tracing with a Case Study on the 2016 U.S. Presidential Electioncs.SI
The 2016 United States presidential election has been characterized as a period of extreme divisiveness that was exacerbated on social media by the influence of fake news, trolls, and social bots. However, the extent to which the public became more polarized in response to these influences over the course of the electi…
This note provides an easy construction of fake octagons.
problem Existence and construction of fake octagons.
method Elementary cut-and-paste surgery to produce infinitely many distinct fake octagons.
result Any iterate of the surgery produces a fake octagon that is different from others in the family.
Classifies fake surfaces up to complexity 5.
problem Classifying fake surfaces for low-dimensional topology.
method Derived properties of fake surfaces, classified up to complexity 5.
result Proved conjectures about fake surfaces up to complexity 5.
Physics-informed diffusion model detects anomalous trajectories in GPS data.
problem Detecting fake GPS trajectories in international waters.
method Physics-informed diffusion model integrating kinematic constraints.
result Higher prediction accuracy and lower error rate for anomaly detection.
New framework investigates how fake features affect model generalization.
problem Model misspecification with fake features and their impact on generalization.
method Non-asymptotic high-probability bound on ridge regression generalization error.
result Trade-off between fake features and optimal ridge parameter.
On the one hand, nowadays, fake news articles are easily propagated through various online media platforms and have become a grand threat to the trustworthiness of information. On the other hand, our understanding of the language of fake news is still minimal. Incorporating hierarchical discourse-level structure of fak…
The paper tackles biases in session-based recommender systems by modeling user interest as a stochastic process.
problem Data uncertainty, popularity bias, and exposure bias in session-based recommender systems.
method The paper proposes treating user interest as a stochastic process in the latent space, debiasing item embeddings, modeling dense user interest, and introducing fake targets to simulate extended exposure.
result The proposed approach mitigates challenges in session-based recommender systems, as shown by computational experiments on various datasets.
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…
Paper proves contractible fake surfaces up to complexity 6 are deformable.
problem Stable Andrews-Curtis conjecture and contractible fake surfaces.
method Induction scheme proving contractibility up to complexity 6.
result Contractible fake surfaces up to complexity 6 are 3-deformable.
MALCOM generates fake comments to fool fake news detectors.
problem Adversaries can manipulate fake news detection models with malicious comments.
method Proposes a novel threat model and develops an adversarial comment generation framework (MALCOM).
result MALCOM can fool fake news detectors 90-94% of the time, depending on the model and dataset.
Online social networking sites are experimenting with the following crowd-powered procedure to reduce the spread of fake news and misinformation: whenever a user is exposed to a story through her feed, she can flag the story as misinformation and, if the story receives enough flags, it is sent to a trusted third party …
Improves estimation under model misspecification with fake features.
problem Model misspecification with fake features.
method Proposes a framework to decompose output error into underlying, fake, and missing features.
result Fake features can significantly improve estimation performance, even when not correlated with underlying features.
Paper explores different models for fake news detection.
problem Detecting fake news with various models.
method Used machine learning algorithms and pretrained features like TFIDF, CV, and W2V.
result Developed models for better fake news detection.
We apply the recent results of Galkin et al. [GKMS15] to study some geometrical features of Keum's fake projective planes. Among other things, we show that the bicanonical map of Keum's fake projective planes is always an embedding. Moreover, we construct a nonstandard exceptional collection on the unique fake projecti…
The viral spread of fake news has caused great social harm, making fake news detection an urgent task. Current fake news detection methods rely heavily on text information by learning the extracted news content or writing style of internal knowledge. However, deliberate rumors can mask writing style, bypassing language…
We apply the lifting theorem of Searle and the second author to put metrics of almost nonnegative curvature on the fake RP^{6}s of Hirsch and Milnor and on the analogous fake RP^{14}s.
In the present article, we provide examples of fake quadrics, that is, minimal complex surfaces of general type with the same numerical invariants as the smooth quadric in $\PP ^3$ which are quotients of the bidisc by an irreducible lattice of automorphisms. Moreover, we list classes of arithmetic lattices over a real …
Online reviews provide viewpoints on the strengths and shortcomings of products/services, influencing potential customers' purchasing decisions. However, the proliferation of non-credible reviews -- either fake (promoting/ demoting an item), incompetent (involving irrelevant aspects), or biased -- entails the problem o…
Recently, due to the booming influence of online social networks, detecting fake news is drawing significant attention from both academic communities and general public. In this paper, we consider the existence of confounding variables in the features of fake news and use Propensity Score Matching (PSM) to select gener…
A fake quadric is a smooth projective surface that has the same rational cohomology as a smooth quadric surface but is not biholomorphic to one. We provide an explicit classification of all irreducible fake quadrics according to the commensurability class of their fundamental group. To accomplish this task, we develop …
RealStats detects fake images rigorously, combining multiple detectors for robustness.
problem Detecting AI-generated images remains challenging due to evolving generative models.
method Combines training-free statistics to compute p-values and aggregate them for a unified real-image distribution.
result Framework produces interpretable probability scores for robust fake image detection.
We study quotients of the -fold product of the upper half plane by irreducible and torsion-free lattices with the same Betti numbers as the -fold product of projective lines. Such varieties are called fake products of projective lines…
SAFE detects fake news by analyzing text and image similarities.
problem Detecting fake news with less focus on text-image similarity.
method SAFE uses neural networks to extract text and visual features, then learns their relationship to predict fake news.
result SAFE effectively recognizes fake news based on text, images, or mismatches.
In this paper we show strategies to easily identify fake samples generated with the Generative Adversarial Network framework. One strategy is based on the statistical analysis and comparison of raw pixel values and features extracted from them. The other strategy learns formal specifications from the real data and show…
New algebraic fundamental groups identified for fake projective planes.
problem Characterizing algebraic fundamental groups of fake projective planes.
method Analysis of complex conjugate pairs and explicit finite étale covers.
result Forty-six distinct isomorphism classes of algebraic fundamental groups.
While the purpose of most fake news is misinformation and political propaganda, our team sees it as a new type of myth that is created by people in the age of internet identities and artificial intelligence. Seeking insights on the fear and desire hidden underneath these modified or generated stories, we use machine le…
We give a criterion for a projective surface to become a quotient of a fake projective plane. We also give a detailed information on the elliptic fibration of a -elliptic surface that is the minimal resolution of a quotient of a fake projective plane. As a consequence, we give a classification of -h…
One of the major hurdles preventing the full exploitation of information from online communities is the widespread concern regarding the quality and credibility of user-contributed content. Prior works in this domain operate on a static snapshot of the community, making strong assumptions about the structure of the dat…
Fake Wedgesmath.AT
A fake wedge is a diagram of spaces K <- A -> C whose double mapping cylinder is contractible. The terminology stems from the special case A = K v C with maps given by the projections. In this paper, we study the homotopy type of the moduli space D(K,C) of fake wedges on K and C. We formulate two conjectures concerning…
Exploiting Human Social Cognition for the Detection of Fake and Fraudulent Faces via Memory Networkscs.CV
Advances in computer vision have brought us to the point where we have the ability to synthesise realistic fake content. Such approaches are seen as a source of disinformation and mistrust, and pose serious concerns to governments around the world. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) demonstrate encouraging results wh…
Deep learning uses alphabet frequencies to accurately classify fake news.
problem Classifying fake news from trustworthy news.
method Used deep learning algorithms on alphabet frequencies of text without sequence information.
result Achieved high accuracy (85%) in classifying fake news.