Diffusion Pixelation: A Game Diffusion Model of Rumor & Anti-Rumor Inspired by Image Restoration

Abstract

This study is inspired by the current image restoration technology. If we regard the users participating in the rumor as image pixels, similar to social networks, the recovery of pixel data is affected by the pixels themselves and neighbor pixels, then the prediction of user behavior in the rumor diffusion can be regarded as the process of image restoration for pixel-blurred user behavior images. We first propose a diffusion2pixel algorithm that transforms the user relationship network of topic diffusion into image pixel matrix. To cope with the diversity and complexity of the diffusion feature space, the user relationship network is reduced to a low-rank dense vectorization by representation learning before being pixelated by cutting and diffusion. Second, considering the competitive relationship between rumor and anti-rumor, transition matrix of rumor mutual influences is established by evolutionary game theory. A mutual influence model of rumor and anti-rumor is then proposed. Finally, we combine the transition matrix of rumor mutual influence into a simple prediction method Graph-CNN of rumor and anti-rumor topic diffusion based on dynamic iteration mechanism. Experiments confirmed the proposed model can effectively predict the group diffusion trends of rumor, and reflects the competitive relationship between rumor and anti-rumor.