Title
NeuralWalk: Trust Assessment in Online Social Networks with Neural Networks
Abstract
Assessing the trust between users in a trust social network (TSN) isa critical issue in many applications, e.g., film recommendation,spam detection, and online lending. Despite of various trust assessment methods, a challenge remaining to existing solutions is how to accurately determine the factors that affect trust propagation and trust fusion within a TSN. To address this challenge, we propose the NeuralWalk algorithm to cope with trust factor estimation and trust relation prediction problems simultaneously. NeuralWalk employs a neural network, named WalkNet, to model single-hop trust propagation and fusion in a TSN. By treating original trust relations in a TSN as labeled samples, WalkNet is able to learn the parameters that will be used for trust computation/assessment. Unlike traditional solutions, WalkNet is able to accurately predict unknown trust relations in an inductive manner. Based on WalkNet, NeuralWalk iteratively assesses the unknown multi-hop trust relations among users via the obtained single-hop trust computation rules. Experiments on two real-world TSN datasets indicate that NeuralWalk significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art solutions.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2019
ieee international conference computer and communications
Social networking (online),Computational modeling,Training,Adaptation models,Inference algorithms,Biological neural networks
Field
DocType
ISSN
Social network,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Artificial neural network,Trust factor,Computation,Distributed computing
Conference
0743-166X
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-7281-0515-4
3
0.38
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Guangchi Liu1273.29
Chenyu Li230.38
Qing Yang328430.11