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Social media popularity prediction task aims to predict the popularity of posts on social media platforms, which has a positive driving effect on application scenarios such as content optimization, digital marketing and online advertising.…

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Recently pre-trained language representation models such as BERT have shown great success when fine-tuned on downstream tasks including information retrieval (IR). However, pre-training objectives tailored for ad-hoc retrieval have not been…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Xinyu Ma , Jiafeng Guo , Ruqing Zhang , Yixing Fan , Xiang Ji , Xueqi Cheng

Prediction is an important problem in different science domains. In this paper, we focus on trend prediction in complex networks, i.e. to identify the most popular nodes in the future. Due to the preferential attachment mechanism in real…

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Pre-training is prevalent in deep learning for vision and text data, leveraging knowledge from other datasets to enhance downstream tasks. However, for tabular data, the inherent heterogeneity in attribute and label spaces across datasets…

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Recommender systems aim to provide item recommendations for users, and are usually faced with data sparsity problem (e.g., cold start) in real-world scenarios. Recently pre-trained models have shown their effectiveness in knowledge transfer…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Zheni Zeng , Chaojun Xiao , Yuan Yao , Ruobing Xie , Zhiyuan Liu , Fen Lin , Leyu Lin , Maosong Sun

With the increase in content availability over the internet it is very difficult to get noticed. It has become an upmost the priority of the blog writers to get some feedback over their creations to be confident about the impact of their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Krishna Yadav , Lakshya Choudhary

Large pre-trained language models (LPLM) have shown spectacular success when fine-tuned on downstream supervised tasks. Yet, it is known that their performance can drastically drop when there is a distribution shift between the data used…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Kostadin Cvejoski , Ramsés J. Sánchez , César Ojeda

In this work, we propose a regression method to predict the popularity of an online video based on temporal and visual cues. Our method uses Support Vector Regression with Gaussian Radial Basis Functions. We show that modelling popularity…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-11-02 Tomasz Trzcinski , Przemyslaw Rokita

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit systematic preferences for well-known entities, a phenomenon often attributed to popularity bias. However, the extent to which these preferences reflect real-world popularity versus statistical exposure…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Jamshid Mozafari , Bhawna Piryani , Adam Jatowt

We here present a simple and effective model to predict the popularity of web content. Our solution, which is the winner of two of the three tasks of the ECML/PKDD 2014 Predictive Analytics Challenge, aims at predicting user engagement…

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Video Large Language Models (Video LLMs) have achieved significant success by adopting the paradigm of large-scale pre-training followed by supervised fine-tuning (SFT). However, existing approaches struggle with temporal reasoning due to…

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Social media platforms are daily exhibiting millions of events. To preliminarily predict the mainstream public reaction to these events, we study trendy response prediction to automatically generate top-liked user replies to social media…

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Early action prediction deals with inferring the ongoing action from partially-observed videos, typically at the outset of the video. We propose a bottleneck-based attention model that captures the evolution of the action, through…

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Social media popularity prediction plays a crucial role in content optimization, marketing strategies, and user engagement enhancement across digital platforms. However, predicting post popularity remains challenging due to the complex…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Liliang Ye , Yunyao Zhang , Yafeng Wu , Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen , Junqing Yu , Wei Yang , Zikai Song

End-to-end models in NLP rarely encode external world knowledge about length of time. We introduce two effective models for duration prediction, which incorporate external knowledge by reading temporal-related news sentences (time-aware…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Zonglin Yang , Xinya Du , Alexander Rush , Claire Cardie

Predicting the future popularity of information in online social networks is a crucial yet challenging task, due to the complex spatiotemporal dynamics underlying information diffusion. Existing methods typically use structural or…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Yuchen Wang , Dongpeng Hou , Weikai Jing , Chao Gao , Xianghua Li , Yang Liu

Social Media Popularity Prediction is a complex multimodal task that requires effective integration of images, text, and structured information. However, current approaches suffer from inadequate visual-textual alignment and fail to capture…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Ao Zhou , Mingsheng Tu , Luping Wang , Tenghao Sun , Zifeng Cheng , Yafeng Yin , Zhiwei Jiang , Qing Gu

Language-image pre-training is an effective technique for learning powerful representations in general domains. However, when directly turning to person representation learning, these general pre-training methods suffer from unsatisfactory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Jialong Zuo , Jiahao Hong , Feng Zhang , Changqian Yu , Hanyu Zhou , Changxin Gao , Nong Sang , Jingdong Wang

User modeling is critical for many personalized web services. Many existing methods model users based on their behaviors and the labeled data of target tasks. However, these methods cannot exploit useful information in unlabeled user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Chuhan Wu , Fangzhao Wu , Tao Qi , Jianxun Lian , Yongfeng Huang , Xing Xie

Accurately predicting the relevance of items to users is crucial to the success of many social platforms. Conventional approaches train models on logged historical data; but recommendation systems, media services, and online marketplaces…

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