A study of ensemble feature selection and adversarial training for malicious user detection

Abstract

The continuously booming of information technology has shed light on developing a variety of communication networks, multimedia, social networks and Internet of Things applications. However, users inevitably suffer from the intrusion of malicious users. Some studies focus on static characteristics of malicious users, which is easy to be bypassed by camouflaged malicious users. In this paper, we present a malicious user detection method based on ensemble feature selection and adversarial training. Firstly, the feature selection alleviates the dimension disaster problem and achieves more accurate classification performance. Secondly, we embed features into the multidimensional space and aggregate it into a feature map to encode the explicit content preference and implicit interaction preference. Thirdly, we use an effective ensemble learning which could avoid over-fitting and has good noise resistance. Finally, we propose a datadriven neural network detection model with the regularization technique adversarial training to deeply analyze the characteristics. It simplifies the parameters, obtaining more robust interaction features and pattern features. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach with numerical simulation results for malicious user detection, where the robustness issues are notable concerns.