User Identification in Online Social Networks using Graph Transformer Networks
K. N. Pavan Kumar, Marina L. Gavrilova · 2021
The problem of user recognition in online social networks is driven by the need for higher security. Previous recognition systems have extensively employed content-based features and temporal patterns to identify and represent distinctive characteristics within user profiles. This work reveals that semantic textual analysis and a graph representation of the user’s social network can be utilized to develop a user identification system. A graph transformer network architecture is proposed for the closed-set node identification task, leveraging the weighted social network graph as input. Users retweeting, mentioning, or replying to a target user’s tweet are considered neighbors in the social network graph and connected to the target user. The proposed user identification system outperforms all state-of-the-art systems. Moreover, we validate its performance on three publicly available datasets.