Detection of Social Network Spam Based on Improved Extreme Learning Machine

Abstract

With the rapid advancement of the online social network, social media like Twitter has been increasingly critical to real life and become the prime objective of spammers. Twitter spam detection refers to a complex task for the involvement of a range of characteristics, and spam and non-spam have caused unbalanced data distribution in Twitter. To solve the mentioned problems, Twitter spam characteristics are analyzed as the user attribute, content, activity and relationship in this study, and a novel spam detection algorithm is designed based on regularized extreme learning machine, called the Improved Incremental Fuzzy-kernel-regularized Extreme Learning Machine (I2FELM), which is used to detect the Twitter spam accurately. As revealed from the experience validation results, the proposed I2FELM can efficiently identify the balanced and unbalanced dataset. Moreover, with few characteristics taken, the I2FELM can more effectively detect spam, which proves the effectiveness of the algorithm.