# An Unsupervised Bayesian Neural Network for Truth Discovery in Social Networks

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.10470 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1906.10470/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 25 Jun 2019.

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- [A Light-weight, Effective and Efficient Model for Label Aggregation in Crowdsourcing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2212.00007/) (2022)

## Abstract (arXiv)

The problem of estimating event truths from conflicting agent opinions in a social network is investigated. An autoencoder learns the complex relationships between event truths, agent reliabilities and agent observations. A Bayesian network model is proposed to guide the learning process by modeling the relationship of the autoencoder's outputs with different variables. At the same time, it also models the social relationships between agents in the network. The proposed approach is unsupervised and is applicable when ground truth labels of events are unavailable. A variational inference method is used to jointly estimate the hidden variables in the Bayesian network and the parameters in the autoencoder. Experiments on three real datasets demonstrate that our proposed approach is competitive with, and in most cases better than, several state-of-the-art benchmark methods.