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Predicting video viewership is a top priority for content creators and video-sharing sites. Content creators live on such predictions to maximize influences and minimize budgets. Video-sharing sites rely on this prediction to promote…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Jiaheng Xie , Xiao Liu

Information propagation on social networks could be modeled as cascades, and many efforts have been made to predict the future popularity of cascades. However, most of the existing research treats a cascade as an individual sequence.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Xiaodong Lu , Shuo Ji , Le Yu , Leilei Sun , Bowen Du , Tongyu Zhu

The growing popularity of short-form video content, such as YouTube Shorts, has transformed user engagement on digital platforms, raising critical questions about the role of recommendation algorithms in shaping user experiences. These…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Selimhan Dagtas , Mert Can Cakmak , Nitin Agarwal

Popularity of content in social media is unequally distributed, with some items receiving a disproportionate share of attention from users. Predicting which newly-submitted items will become popular is critically important for both hosts of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2010-10-04 Kristina Lerman , Tad Hogg

On social media sharing platforms, some posts are inherently destined for popularity. Therefore, understanding the reasons behind this phenomenon and predicting popularity before post publication holds significant practical value. The…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Zhizhen Zhang , Ruihong Qiu , Xiaohui Xie

Predicting the popularity of news article is a challenging task. Existing literature mostly focused on article contents and polarity to predict popularity. However, existing research has not considered the users' preference towards a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Roshni Chakraborty , Abhijeet Kharat , Apalak Khatua , Sourav Kumar Dandapat , Joydeep Chandra

YouTube is the leading social media platform for sharing videos. As a result, it is plagued with misleading content that includes staged videos presented as real footages from an incident, videos with misrepresented context and videos where…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Priyank Palod , Ayush Patwari , Sudhanshu Bahety , Saurabh Bagchi , Pawan Goyal

On social media algorithms for content promotion, accounting for users preferences, might limit the exposure to unsolicited contents. In this work, we study how the same contents (videos) are consumed on different platforms -- i.e. Facebook…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Alessandro Bessi , Fabiana Zollo , Michela Del Vicario , Michelangelo Puliga , Antonio Scala , Guido Caldarelli , Brian Uzzi , Walter Quattrociocchi

In this paper, we present a novel problem, namely video timeline modeling. Our objective is to create a video-associated timeline from a set of videos related to a specific topic, thereby facilitating the content and structure understanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Meng Liu , Mingda Zhang , Jialu Liu , Hanjun Dai , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Shuiwang Ji , Zheyun Feng , Boqing Gong

Video sharing sites, such as YouTube, use video responses to enhance the social interactions among their users. The video response feature allows users to interact and converse through video, by creating a video sequence that begins with an…

Predicting the future popularity of online content is highly important in many applications. Preferential attachment phenomena is encountered in scale free networks.Under it's influece popular items get more popular thereby resulting in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-04-06 Khushnood Abbas , Shang Mingsheng , Luo Xin

Popular musicians often learn music by ear. It is unclear what role technology plays for those with experience at this task. In search of opportunities for the development of novel human-recording interactions, we analyze 18 YouTube videos…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Christopher Liscio , Daniel G. Brown

Following the rising popularity of YouTube, there is an emerging problem on this platform called clickbait, which provokes users to click on videos using attractive titles and thumbnails. As a result, users ended up watching a video that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Bhanuka Gamage , Adnan Labib , Aisha Joomun , Chern Hong Lim , KokSheik Wong

Understanding and predicting the popularity of online items is an important open problem in social media analysis. Considerable progress has been made recently in data-driven predictions, and in linking popularity to external promotions.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Swapnil Mishra , Marian-Andrei Rizoiu , Lexing Xie

Use of socially generated "big data" to access information about collective states of the minds in human societies has become a new paradigm in the emerging field of computational social science. A natural application of this would be the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-01-05 Márton Mestyán , Taha Yasseri , János Kertész

Modeling and predicting the popularity of online content is a significant problem for the practice of information dissemination, advertising, and consumption. Recent work analyzing massive datasets advances our understanding of popularity,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-09-11 Marian-Andrei Rizoiu , Lexing Xie , Scott Sanner , Manuel Cebrian , Honglin Yu , Pascal Van Hentenryck

In recent movie recommendations, predicting the user's sequential behavior and suggesting the next movie to watch is one of the most important issues. However, capturing such sequential behavior is not easy because each user's short-term or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Jihyeon Kim , Jinkyung Kim , Jaeyoung Choi

Research using YouTube data often explores social and semantic dimensions of channels and videos. Typically, analyses rely on laborious manual annotation of content and content creators, often found by low-recall methods such as keyword…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Léopaul Boesinger , Manoel Horta Ribeiro , Veniamin Veselovsky , Robert West

Online video websites receive huge amount of videos daily from users all around the world. How to provide valuable recommendations to viewers is an important task for both video websites and related third parties, such as search engines.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-12-30 Qingbo Hu , Guan Wang , Philip S. Yu

Recommender systems play an important role in many content platforms. While most recommendation research is dedicated to designing better models to improve user experience, we found that research on stabilizing the training for such models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Jiaxi Tang , Yoel Drori , Daryl Chang , Maheswaran Sathiamoorthy , Justin Gilmer , Li Wei , Xinyang Yi , Lichan Hong , Ed H. Chi