Electioneering the Network: Dynamic Multi-Step Adversarial Attacks for Community Canvassing

arXiv:2403.12399v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The problem of online social network manipulation for community canvassing is of real concern in today's world. Motivated by the study of voter models, opinion and polarization dynamics on networks, we model community canvassing as a dynamic process over a network enabled via gradient-based attacks on GNNs. Existing attacks on GNNs are all single-step and do not account for the dynamic cascading nature of information diffusion in networks. We consider the realistic scenario where an …

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