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    "title": "Social Media Bot Detection using Dropout-GAN",
    "arxiv": "2311.05079",
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      "name": "Anant Shukla",
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    "title": "Social Media Bot Detection using Dropout-GAN",
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    "submitted": "2023-11-09",
    "keywords": [
      "GAN",
      "Dropout-GAN",
      "Bot Detection",
      "Twitter",
      "Machine Learning",
      "Cybersecurity",
      "Graph Neural Networks"
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