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Social bot detection framework fusing multi-scale wavelet enhancement and self-supervised learning
Yu CHEN, Shuaikang QI, Liwei XU, Haotian ZHU
Journal of Computer Applications    2026, 46 (6): 1756-1766.   DOI: 10.11772/j.issn.1001-9081.2025060744
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To address the limitations of the existing social bot detection methods in multimodal feature modeling, disguised behavior recognition, and generalization under weakly supervised scenarios, a social bot detection framework fusing multi-scale wavelet enhancement and self-supervised learning, named W2A-BotNet (Wavelet-to-Attention Bot Network), was proposed. In the framework, a unified three-channel representation of textual semantics, user attributes, and social relations was constructed to alleviate modality conflicts; a Multi-scale Attention Wavelet Neural Operator Block (MAWNOBlock) was designed to perform time-frequency decomposition of behavioral sequences, thereby capturing both periodic patterns and abrupt anomalies; a multi-source collaborative fusion mechanism was introduced to achieve dynamic semantic alignment through cross-modal interactions and gating; a self-supervised pretraining based on follower count distribution was incorporated to enhance feature representation under limited labeled data. Experimental results show that the accuracy of the W2A-BotNet is improved by 0.35, 4.86, and 2.21 percentage points respectively compared to the suboptimal methods on Cresci-15, Cresci-17, and TwiBot-20 datasets, respectively. It can be seen that W2A-BotNet enhances the identification of bot accounts on social platforms effectively and provides a generalized detection framework for social network security governance.

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