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Predicting Information Pathways Across Online Communities (arxiv.org)
2 points by Anon84 on Aug 8, 2023 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: By tracking how YouTube videos hop between Reddit communities, this builds graphs of which communities influence which, then predicts a video's next stops over time using its content. It beat seven other approaches even for brand-new videos and communities.

Abstract

The problem of community-level information pathway prediction (CLIPP) aims at predicting the transmission trajectory of content across online communities. A successful solution to CLIPP holds significance as it facilitates the distribution of valuable information to a larger audience and prevents the proliferation of misinformation. Notably, solving CLIPP is non-trivial as inter-community relationships and influence are unknown, information spread is multi-modal, and new content and new communities appear over time. In this work, we address CLIPP by collecting large-scale, multi-modal datasets to examine the diffusion of online YouTube videos on Reddit. We analyze these datasets to construct community influence graphs (CIGs) and develop a novel dynamic graph framework, INPAC (Information Pathway Across Online Communities), which incorporates CIGs to capture the temporal variability and multi-modal nature of video propagation across communities. Experimental results in both warm-start and cold-start scenarios show that INPAC outperforms seven baselines in CLIPP.

Yiqiao Jin, Yeon-Chang Lee, Kartik Sharma, Meng Ye, Karan Sikka, Ajay Divakaran, Srijan Kumar
arXiv:2306.02259 · cs.SI, cs.CY · submitted Jun 4, 2023
abstract · pdf · html · In Proceedings of the 29th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'23)

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