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Understanding Transformers for Bot Detection in Twitter

2021-04-13 13:32:55
Andres Garcia-Silva, Cristian Berrio, Jose Manuel Gomez-Perez

Abstract

In this paper we shed light on the impact of fine-tuning over social media data in the internal representations of neural language models. We focus on bot detection in Twitter, a key task to mitigate and counteract the automatic spreading of disinformation and bias in social media. We investigate the use of pre-trained language models to tackle the detection of tweets generated by a bot or a human account based exclusively on its content. Unlike the general trend in benchmarks like GLUE, where BERT generally outperforms generative transformers like GPT and GPT-2 for most classification tasks on regular text, we observe that fine-tuning generative transformers on a bot detection task produces higher accuracies. We analyze the architectural components of each transformer and study the effect of fine-tuning on their hidden states and output representations. Among our findings, we show that part of the syntactical information and distributional properties captured by BERT during pre-training is lost upon fine-tuning while the generative pre-training approach manage to preserve these properties.

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https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.06182

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https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.06182.pdf


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