GETAE: Graph Information Enhanced Deep Neural Network Ensemble ArchitecturE for Fake News Detection

作     者：Truica, Ciprian-Octavian Apostol, Elena-Simona Marogel, Marius Paschke, Adrian 

作者机构：Computer Science and Engineering Department Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest Splaiul Independentei 313 Bucharest060042 Romania Academy of Romanian Scientists Ilfov 3 Bucharest050044 Romania Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Freie Universität Berlin Arnimallee 14 Berlin14195 Germany Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 31 Berlin10589 Germany 

出 版 物：《arXiv》 (arXiv)

年 卷 期：2024年

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主　　题：Graph embeddings 

摘      要：In today’s digital age, fake news has become a major problem that has serious consequences, ranging from social unrest to political upheaval. To address this issue, new methods for detecting and mitigating fake news are required. In this work, we propose to incorporate contextual and network-aware features into the detection process. This involves analyzing not only the content of a news article but also the context in which it was shared and the network of users who shared it, i.e., the information diffusion. Thus, we propose GETAE, Graph Information Enhanced Deep Neural Network Ensemble ArchitecturE for Fake News Detection, a novel ensemble architecture that uses textual content together with the social interactions to improve fake news detection. GETAE contains two Branches: the Text Branch and the Propagation Branch. The Text Branch uses Word and Transformer Embeddings and a Deep Neural Network based on feed-forward and bidirectional Recurrent Neural Networks ([Bi]RNN) for learning novel contextual features and creating a novel Text Content Embedding. The Propagation Branch considers the information propagation within the graph network and proposes a Deep Learning architecture that employs Node Embeddings to create novel Propagation Embedding. GETAE Ensemble combines the two novel embeddings, i.e., Text Content Embedding and Propagation Embedding, to create a novel Propagation-Enhanced Content Embedding which is afterward used for classification. The experimental results obtained on two real-world publicly available datasets, i.e., Twitter15 and Twitter16, prove that using this approach improves fake news detection and outperforms state-of-the-art models. © 2024, CC BY-NC-ND.