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TPoison: Data-Poisoning Attack against GNN-Based Social Trust Model

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  • Jiahui Zhao

    (College of Information Engineering, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang 330013, China)

  • Nan Jiang

    (College of Information Engineering, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang 330013, China)

  • Kanglu Pei

    (School of Mathematics and Statistics, the University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW 2006, Australia)

  • Jie Wen

    (College of Electrical and Automation Engineering, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang 330013, China)

  • Hualin Zhan

    (College of Information Engineering, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang 330013, China)

  • Ziang Tu

    (College of Information Engineering, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang 330013, China)

Abstract

In online social networks, users can vote on different trust levels for each other to indicate how much they trust their friends. Researchers have improved their ability to predict social trust relationships through a variety of methods, one of which is the graph neural network (GNN) method, but they have also brought the vulnerability of the GNN method into the social trust network model. We propose a data-poisoning attack method for GNN-based social trust models based on the characteristics of social trust networks. We used a two-sample test for power-law distributions of discrete data to avoid changes in the dataset being detected and used an enhanced surrogate model to generate poisoned samples. We further tested the effectiveness of our approach on three real-world datasets and compared it with two other methods. The experimental results using three datasets show that our method can effectively avoid detection. We also used three metrics to illustrate the effectiveness of our attack, and the experimental results show that our attack stayed ahead of the other two methods in all three datasets. In terms of one of our metrics, our attack method decreased the accuracies of the attacked models by 12.6%, 22.8%, and 13.8%.

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  • Jiahui Zhao & Nan Jiang & Kanglu Pei & Jie Wen & Hualin Zhan & Ziang Tu, 2024. "TPoison: Data-Poisoning Attack against GNN-Based Social Trust Model," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 12(12), pages 1-16, June.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jmathe:v:12:y:2024:i:12:p:1813-:d:1412745
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