Cross-Social-Network User Identification Based on Bidirectional GCN and MNF-UI Models

Due to the distinct functionalities of various social network platforms, users often register accounts on different platforms, posing significant challenges for unified user management. However, current multi-social-network user identification algorithms heavily rely on user attributes and cannot perform user identification across multiple social networks. To address these issues, this paper proposes two identity recognition models. The first model is a cross-social-network user identification model based on bidirectional GCN. It calculates user intimacy using the Jaccard similarity coefficient and constructs an adjacency matrix to accurately represent user relationships in the social network. It then extracts cross-social-network user information to accomplish user identification tasks. The second model is the multi-network feature user identification (MNF-UI) model, which introduces the concept of network feature vectors. It effectively maps the structural features of different social networks and performs user identification based on the common features of seed nodes in the cross-network environment. Experimental results demonstrate that the bidirectional GCN model significantly outperforms baseline algorithms in cross-social-network user identification tasks. The MNF-UI (multi-network feature user identification) model can operate in situations with two or more networks with inconsistent structures, resulting in improved identification accuracy. These two user identification algorithms provide technical and theoretical support for in-depth research on social network information integration and network security maintenance.