Is Hidden Safe? Location Protection against Machine-Learning Prediction Attacks in Social Networks

MIS Quarterly ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 821-858
Author(s):  
Xiao Han ◽  
Leye Wang ◽  
Weiguo Fan
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Private Information ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Exposure Risk ◽  
Hidden Information ◽  
Risk Estimator ◽  
Exposure Risks

User privacy protection is a vital issue of concern for online social networks (OSNs). Even though users often intentionally hide their private information in OSNs, since adversaries may conduct prediction attacks to predict hidden information using advanced machine learning techniques, private information that users intend to hide may still be at risk of being exposed. Taking the current city listed on Facebook profiles as a case, we propose a solution that estimates and manages the exposure risk of users’ hidden information. First, we simulate an aggressive prediction attack using advanced state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms by proposing a new current city prediction framework that integrates location indications based on various types of information exposed by users, including demographic attributes, behaviors, and relationships. Second, we study prediction attack results to model patterns of prediction correctness (as correct predictions lead to information exposures) and construct an exposure risk estimator. The proposed exposure risk estimator has the ability not only to notify users of exposure risks related to their hidden current city but can also help users mitigate exposure risks by overhauling and selecting countermeasures. Moreover, our exposure risk estimator can improve the privacy management of OSNs by facilitating empirical studies on the exposure risks of OSN users as a group. Taking the current city as a case, this work offers insight on how to protect other types of private information against machine-learning prediction attacks and reveals several important implications for both practice management and future research.

Machine Learning

2012 ◽  
pp. 13-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
João Gama ◽  
André C.P.L.F. de Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Text Processing ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Background Information ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Personal View ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Future Research Directions

Machine learning techniques have been successfully applied to several real world problems in areas as diverse as image analysis, Semantic Web, bioinformatics, text processing, natural language processing,telecommunications, finance, medical diagnosis, and so forth. A particular application where machine learning plays a key role is data mining, where machine learning techniques have been extensively used for the extraction of association, clustering, prediction, diagnosis, and regression models. This text presents our personal view of the main aspects, major tasks, frequently used algorithms, current research, and future directions of machine learning research. For such, it is organized as follows: Background information concerning machine learning is presented in the second section. The third section discusses different definitions for Machine Learning. Common tasks faced by Machine Learning Systems are described in the fourth section. Popular Machine Learning algorithms and the importance of the loss function are commented on in the fifth section. The sixth and seventh sections present the current trends and future research directions, respectively.

Machine Learning

2011 ◽  
pp. 2462-2468 ◽  
Author(s):  
João Gama ◽  
André C.P.L.F. de Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Text Processing ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Background Information ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Personal View ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Future Research Directions

Machine learning techniques have been successfully applied to several real world problems in areas as diverse as image analysis, Semantic Web, bioinformatics, text processing, natural language processing,telecommunications, finance, medical diagnosis, and so forth. A particular application where machine learning plays a key role is data mining, where machine learning techniques have been extensively used for the extraction of association, clustering, prediction, diagnosis, and regression models. This text presents our personal view of the main aspects, major tasks, frequently used algorithms, current research, and future directions of machine learning research. For such, it is organized as follows: Background information concerning machine learning is presented in the second section. The third section discusses different definitions for Machine Learning. Common tasks faced by Machine Learning Systems are described in the fourth section. Popular Machine Learning algorithms and the importance of the loss function are commented on in the fifth section. The sixth and seventh sections present the current trends and future research directions, respectively.

scholarly journals Exploring Adversarial Attacks and Defences for Fake Twitter Account Detection

Technologies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 64
Author(s):  
Panagiotis Kantartopoulos ◽  
Nikolaos Pitropakis ◽  
Alexios Mylonas ◽  
Nicolas Kylilis
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Test Phase ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Specific Subject ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Twitter Account

Social media has become very popular and important in people’s lives, as personal ideas, beliefs and opinions are expressed and shared through them. Unfortunately, social networks, and specifically Twitter, suffer from massive existence and perpetual creation of fake users. Their goal is to deceive other users employing various methods, or even create a stream of fake news and opinions in order to influence an idea upon a specific subject, thus impairing the platform’s integrity. As such, machine learning techniques have been widely used in social networks to address this type of threat by automatically identifying fake accounts. Nonetheless, threat actors update their arsenal and launch a range of sophisticated attacks to undermine this detection procedure, either during the training or test phase, rendering machine learning algorithms vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Our work examines the propagation of adversarial attacks in machine learning based detection for fake Twitter accounts, which is based on AdaBoost. Moreover, we propose and evaluate the use of k-NN as a countermeasure to remedy the effects of the adversarial attacks that we have implemented.

scholarly journals Machine Learning Approaches to Bike-Sharing Systems: A Systematic Literature Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 62
Author(s):  
Vitória Albuquerque ◽  
Miguel Sales Dias ◽  
Fernando Bacao
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Urban Transport ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Bike Sharing

Cities are moving towards new mobility strategies to tackle smart cities’ challenges such as carbon emission reduction, urban transport multimodality and mitigation of pandemic hazards, emphasising on the implementation of shared modes, such as bike-sharing systems. This paper poses a research question and introduces a corresponding systematic literature review, focusing on machine learning techniques’ contributions applied to bike-sharing systems to improve cities’ mobility. The preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses (PRISMA) method was adopted to identify specific factors that influence bike-sharing systems, resulting in an analysis of 35 papers published between 2015 and 2019, creating an outline for future research. By means of systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis, machine learning algorithms were identified in two groups: classification and prediction.

scholarly journals Detecting Aggressiveness in Tweets: A Hybrid Model for Detecting Cyberbullying in the Spanish Language

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (22) ◽  
pp. 10706
Author(s):  
Manuel Lepe-Faúndez ◽  
Alejandra Segura-Navarrete ◽  
Christian Vidal-Castro ◽  
Claudia Martínez-Araneda ◽  
Clemente Rubio-Manzano
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Web Application ◽  
English Language ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Spanish Language ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Main Work ◽  
Computer Science Research

In recent years, the use of social networks has increased exponentially, which has led to a significant increase in cyberbullying. Currently, in the field of Computer Science, research has been made on how to detect aggressiveness in texts, which is a prelude to detecting cyberbullying. In this field, the main work has been done for English language texts, mainly using Machine Learning (ML) approaches, Lexicon approaches to a lesser extent, and very few works using hybrid approaches. In these, Lexicons and Machine Learning algorithms are used, such as counting the number of bad words in a sentence using a Lexicon of bad words, which serves as an input feature for classification algorithms. This research aims at contributing towards detecting aggressiveness in Spanish language texts by creating different models that combine the Lexicons and ML approach. Twenty-two models that combine techniques and algorithms from both approaches are proposed, and for their application, certain hyperparameters are adjusted in the training datasets of the corpora, to obtain the best results in the test datasets. Three Spanish language corpora are used in the evaluation: Chilean, Mexican, and Chilean-Mexican corpora. The results indicate that hybrid models obtain the best results in the 3 corpora, over implemented models that do not use Lexicons. This shows that by mixing approaches, aggressiveness detection improves. Finally, a web application is developed that gives applicability to each model by classifying tweets, allowing evaluating the performance of models with external corpus and receiving feedback on the prediction of each one for future research. In addition, an API is available that can be integrated into technological tools for parental control, online plugins for writing analysis in social networks, and educational tools, among others.

An Analysis of QSAR Research Based on Machine Learning Concepts

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Reza Keyvanpour ◽  
Mehrnoush Barani Shirzad
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Biological Activities ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Quantitative Structure Activity Relationship ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Qsar Modeling ◽  
Chemical Structures

: Quantitative Structure–Activity Relationship (QSAR) is a popular approach developed to correlate chemical molecules with their biological activities based on their chemical structures. Machine learning techniques have proved to be promising solutions to QSAR modeling. Due to the significant role of machine learning strategies in QSAR modeling, this area of research has attracted much attention from researchers. A considerable amount of literature has been published on machine learning based QSAR modeling methodologies whilst this domain still suffers from lack of a recent and comprehensive analysis of these algorithms. This study systematically reviews the application of machine learning algorithms in QSAR, aiming to provide an analytical framework. For this purpose, we present a framework called ‘ML-QSAR‘. This framework has been designed for future research to: a)facilitate the selection of proper strategies among existing algorithms according to the application area requirements, b) help to develop and ameliorate current methods and c) providing a platform to study existing methodologies comparatively. In ML-QSAR, first a structured categorization is depicted which studied the QSAR modeling research based on machine models. Then several criteria are introduced in order to assess the models. Finally, inspired by aforementioned criteria the qualitative analysis is carried out.

scholarly journals Adversarial Machine Learning Attacks and Defense Methods in the Cyber Security Domain

2021 ◽  
Vol 54 (5) ◽  
pp. 1-36
Author(s):  
Ishai Rosenberg ◽  
Asaf Shabtai ◽  
Yuval Elovici ◽  
Lior Rokach
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Cyber Security ◽  
Learning Algorithms ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Adversarial Attack ◽  
The Impact

In recent years, machine learning algorithms, and more specifically deep learning algorithms, have been widely used in many fields, including cyber security. However, machine learning systems are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, and this limits the application of machine learning, especially in non-stationary, adversarial environments, such as the cyber security domain, where actual adversaries (e.g., malware developers) exist. This article comprehensively summarizes the latest research on adversarial attacks against security solutions based on machine learning techniques and illuminates the risks they pose. First, the adversarial attack methods are characterized based on their stage of occurrence, and the attacker’ s goals and capabilities. Then, we categorize the applications of adversarial attack and defense methods in the cyber security domain. Finally, we highlight some characteristics identified in recent research and discuss the impact of recent advancements in other adversarial learning domains on future research directions in the cyber security domain. To the best of our knowledge, this work is the first to discuss the unique challenges of implementing end-to-end adversarial attacks in the cyber security domain, map them in a unified taxonomy, and use the taxonomy to highlight future research directions.

Trends in web data extraction using machine learning

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Sudhir Kumar Patnaik ◽  
C. Narendra Babu
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Error Detection ◽  
Data Extraction ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Self Healing ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Web Data ◽  
Web Data Extraction

Web data extraction has seen significant development in the last decade since its inception in the early nineties. It has evolved from a simple manual way of extracting data from web page and documents to automated extraction to an intelligent extraction using machine learning algorithms, tools and techniques. Data extraction is one of the key components of end-to-end life cycle in web data extraction process that includes navigation, extraction, data enrichment and visualization. This paper presents the journey of web data extraction over the last many years highlighting evolution of tools, techniques, frameworks and algorithms for building intelligent web data extraction systems. The paper also throws light into challenges, opportunities for future research and emerging trends over the years in web data extraction with specific focus on machine learning techniques. Both traditional and machine learning approaches to manual and automated web data extraction are experimented and results published with few use cases demonstrating the challenges in web data extraction in the event of changes in the website layout. This paper introduces novel ideas such as self-healing capability in web data extraction and proactive error detection in the event of changes in website layout as an area of future research. This unique perspective will help readers to get deeper insights in to the present and future of web data extraction.

scholarly journals Personality Prediction from Social Networks text using Machine Learning

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 2384-2389
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Important Research Topic ◽  
Broad Variety ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Personality Prediction ◽  
And Function ◽  
Work Done

Personality, a typical way of thinking, feeling, and behaviour. Personality embraces moods, attitudes and views and is expressed most obviously in relationships with others. It involves both intrinsic and acquired behavioural features that differentiate one individual from another and can be found in the relationships of people with the surroundings and with the social group. With the development of social networks, a broad variety of techn iques have been developed to identify user personalities based on their social activities and language usage practices. In terms of distinct machine learning algorithms, information sources and function sets, particular methods vary. Personality prediction has been an important research topic for describing user profiles and person not only in psychology but also in computer science. This paper presents a systematic survey of current work done of personality prediction from social networks. We also prepared a Comparison chart of existing techniques for personality prediction on the basis of relevant parameters. Based on this survey, we finally presented a few future research directions related to personality prediction.

scholarly journals Adversarial Machine Learning on Social Network: A Survey

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sensen Guo ◽  
Xiaoyu Li ◽  
Zhiying Mu
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Sentiment Analysis ◽  
Recommendation System ◽  
Learning Algorithms ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Research Progress ◽  
Future Research

In recent years, machine learning technology has made great improvements in social networks applications such as social network recommendation systems, sentiment analysis, and text generation. However, it cannot be ignored that machine learning algorithms are vulnerable to adversarial examples, that is, adding perturbations that are imperceptible to the human eye to the original data can cause machine learning algorithms to make wrong outputs with high probability. This also restricts the widespread use of machine learning algorithms in real life. In this paper, we focus on adversarial machine learning algorithms on social networks in recent years from three aspects: sentiment analysis, recommendation system, and spam detection, We review some typical applications of machine learning algorithms and adversarial example generation and defense algorithms for machine learning algorithms in the above three aspects in recent years. besides, we also analyze the current research progress and prospects for the directions of future research.

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