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Comment by Bartweiss

The basic result is horribly overfitted, because "account creation minute" and "account creation hour" are two of the parameters. (They split those up because "account creation time" was effectively a unique feature all on its own, and they wanted a 'harder' problem.)

This is basically an exercise in overfitting - they learned to recognize account data using that exact same data, and called it deanonymization. The data fuzzing was a little interesting, but it's still overfitting from top to bottom.

parent Bartweiss 8 years ago

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