A Quantum Beta Distributed Multi-Objective Particle Swarm Optimization
Algorithm for Twitter Fake Accounts Detection
Abstract
Fake account detection is a topical issue when many Online Social
Networks encounter several issues caused by the growing number of
unethical online activities. This study presents a new Quantum
Beta-behaved Multi-Objective Particle Swarm Optimization (QB-MOPSO)
algorithm for machine learning based Twitter fake accounts detection.
The proposed approach aims to improve the learning process of deep
neural networks, random forest, through minimizing simultaneously the
feature dimensionality and the classification error rate. The main
contribution consists in proposing a quantum beta MOPSO to handle the
training phase of neural and deep architectures. The QB-MOPSO is used to
perform a multi-objective training of the random forest algorithm. The
QB-MOPSO has two optimization profiles: the first one uses a
quantum-behaved equation for improving the exploratory behaviour of PSO,
while the second one uses a beta function to enhance PSO’s exploitation.
An extensive experimental study is carried out using two open Twitter
datasets with 1982 and 928 accounts. The new proposal is a random forest
QB-MOPSO. Results showed that random forest QB-MOPSO accuracy is about
99.19% and 97.52% accounts on datasets 1 and 2. Comparative analysis
of the prosed architecture toward the original architecture showed that
the use of QB-MOPSO for learning enhances the random forest algorithm
which perform then the original ones.