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Few-shot Learning for Trajectory-based Mobile Game Cheating Detection

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With the emerging of smartphones, mobile games have attracted billions of players and occupied most of the share for game companies. On the other hand, mobile game cheating, aiming to gain improper advantages by using programs that simulate the players' inputs, severely damages the game's fairness and harms the user experience. Therefore, detecting mobile game cheating is of great importance for mobile game companies. Many PC game-oriented cheating detection methods have been proposed in the past decades, however, they can not be directly adopted in mobile games due to the concern of privacy, power, and memory limitations of mobile devices. Even worse, in practice, the cheating programs are quickly updated, leading to the label scarcity for novel cheating patterns. To handle such issues, we in this paper introduce a mobile game cheating detection framework, namely FCDGame, to detect the cheats under the few-shot learning framework. FCDGame only consumes the screen sensor data, recording users' touch trajectories, which is less sensitive and more general for almost all mobile games. Moreover, a Hierarchical Trajectory Encoder and a Cross-pattern Meta Learner are designed in FCDGame to capture the intrinsic characters of mobile games and solve the label scarcity problem, respectively. Extensive experiments on two real online games show that FCDGame achieves almost 10% improvements in detection accuracy with only few fine-tuned samples.

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Presentation video of the paper titled Few-shot Learning for Trajectory-based Mobile Game Cheating Detection. In this video, we introduce a new task, i.e., few-shot mobile game cheating detection which aims to detect samples of the novel cheating patterns with the information of the limited labeled samples and the knowledge of ground-truth cheating patterns. To deal with this problem, we propose a novel hierarchical model, called FCDGame. Especially, we propose a Hierarchical Trajectory Encoder to model the operation trajectories and introduce a Cross-pattern Meta Learner to transfer knowledge from ground-truth cheating patterns. Finally, we illustrate our experiment on the two commercial game datasets.

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    KDD '22: Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
    August 2022
    5033 pages
    ISBN:9781450393850
    DOI:10.1145/3534678
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    1. cheating detection
    2. few-shot learning
    3. mobile game

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