An Evolutionary Computation Approach for Twitter Bot Detection

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@Article{rovito:2022:AS,

• author = "Luigi Rovito and Lorenzo Bonin and Luca Manzoni and Andrea {De Lorenzo}",
• title = "An Evolutionary Computation Approach for Twitter Bot Detection",
• journal = "Applied Sciences",
• year = "2022",
• volume = "12",
• number = "12",
• pages = "Article No. 5915",
• note = "Special Issue Genetic Programming, Theory, Methods and Applications",
• keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming, X",
• ISSN = "2076-3417",
• URL = "https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/12/5915",
• DOI = "doi:10.3390/app12125915",
• abstract = "Bot accounts are automated software programs that act as legitimate human profiles on social networks. Identifying these kinds of accounts is a challenging problem due to the high variety and heterogeneity that bot accounts exhibit. In this work, we use genetic algorithms and genetic programming to discover interpretable classification models for Twitter bot detection with competitive qualitative performance, high scalability, and good generalisation capabilities. Specifically, we use a genetic programming method with a set of primitives that involves simple mathematical operators. This enables us to discover a human-readable detection algorithm that exhibits a detection accuracy close to the top state-of-the-art methods on the TwiBot-20 dataset while providing predictions that can be interpreted, and whose uncertainty can be easily measured. To the best of our knowledge, this work is the first attempt at adopting evolutionary computation techniques for detecting bot profiles on social media platforms.",
• notes = "also known as \cite{app12125915}",

}

Genetic Programming entries for Luigi Rovito Lorenzo Bonin Luca Manzoni Andrea De Lorenzo

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