FedRio: Personalized Federated Social Bot Detection via Cooperative Reinforced Contrastive Adversarial Distillation
Yingguang Yang, Hao Liu, Xin Zhang, Yunhui Liu, Yutong Xia, Qi Wu, Hao Peng, Taoran Liang, Bin Chong, Tieke He, Philip S. Yu

TL;DR
FedRio is a federated learning framework that enhances social bot detection across platforms by leveraging cooperative contrastive learning, adversarial distillation, and adaptive aggregation to handle data heterogeneity and improve performance.
Contribution
The paper introduces FedRio, a novel federated social bot detection method combining graph neural networks, generative adversarial knowledge sharing, and reinforcement learning for client control.
Findings
FedRio outperforms existing federated baselines in detection accuracy.
It improves communication efficiency and feature space consistency.
It maintains competitive centralized performance under privacy constraints.
Abstract
Social bot detection is critical to the stability and security of online social platforms. However, current state-of-the-art bot detection models are largely developed in isolation, overlooking the benefits of leveraging shared detection patterns across platforms to improve performance and promptly identify emerging bot variants. The heterogeneity of data distributions and model architectures further complicates the design of an effective cross-platform and cross-model detection framework. To address these challenges, we propose FedRio (Personalized Federated Social Bot Detection with Cooperative Reinforced Contrastive Adversarial Distillation framework. We first introduce an adaptive message-passing module as the graph neural network backbone for each client. To facilitate efficient knowledge sharing of global data distributions, we design a federated knowledge extraction mechanism…
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