JOURNAL OF APPLIED INFORMATICS AND COMPUTING
Vol. 9 No. 4 (2025): August 2025

Few-Shot Learning for Classifying Genuine and Bot Comments on YouTube Using Transformer Models

Fikriah Nst, Nahdah (Unknown)
Hamdhana, Defry (Unknown)
Qamal, Mukti (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
06 Aug 2025

Abstract

This study aims to develop a comment classification system on the YouTube platform to distinguish between real accounts and bot accounts, addressing the challenge of limited labeled data through a few-shot learning approach. The issue of bot accounts masquerading as real users in comment sections is becoming increasingly prevalent and has the potential to spread spam, misinformation, and influence public opinion. In this study, a Transformer-based model, DistilBERT, is used, which is known for its efficiency in understanding natural language context. The model is trained in a few-shot scenario (N5 to N50) using a very limited amount of training data. Testing results show that the model maintains high and stable performance even with minimal data (N5), achieving an F1-score above 0.90. In addition, this system is implemented into a web application using Flask to enable direct and interactive comment detection. The main contribution of this research is the proof that the combination of few-shot learning and the DistilBERT model can provide a practical and efficient solution for classifying YouTube bot account comments even with limited data conditions, as well as providing a replicable approach for similar problems on other digital platforms.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

JAIC

Publisher

Subject

Computer Science & IT

Description

Journal of Applied Informatics and Computing (JAIC) Volume 2, Nomor 1, Juli 2018. Berisi tulisan yang diangkat dari hasil penelitian di bidang Teknologi Informatika dan Komputer Terapan dengan e-ISSN: 2548-9828. Terdapat 3 artikel yang telah ditelaah secara substansial oleh tim editorial dan ...