James Verbus

Posts by James Verbus

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    Using deep learning to detect abusive sequences of member activity

    September 2, 2021

    Co-authors: James Verbus and Beibei Wang The Anti-Abuse AI Team at LinkedIn creates, deploys, and maintains models that detect and prevent many types of abuse, including the creation of fake accounts, member profile scraping, automated spam, and account takeovers. As we prevent abuse using machine learning, there are several challenges we can face: Maximizing...

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    Detecting and preventing abuse on LinkedIn using isolation forests

    August 13, 2019

    The Anti-Abuse AI Team at LinkedIn creates, deploys, and maintains models that detect and prevent various types of abuse, including the creation of fake accounts, member profile scraping, automated spam, and account takeovers. There are several unique challenges we face when using machine learning to prevent abuse on a large professional network, including:...