8 papers
OmniTrend: Content-Context Modeling for Scalable Social Popularity Prediction
Liliang Ye, Guiyi Zeng, Yunyao Zhang +3
Predicting social media popularity requires understanding both the intrinsic appeal of content and the external context that determines how it is exposed to users. Existing methods…
HotComment: A Benchmark for Evaluating Popularity of Online Comments
Yafeng Wu, Yunyao Zhang, Liliang Ye +4
Online comments play a crucial role in shaping public sentiment and opinion dynamics on social media. However, evaluating their popularity remains challenging, not only because it…
Seeing Further and Wider: Joint Spatio-Temporal Enlargement for Micro-Video Popularity Prediction
Dali Wang, Yunyao Zhang, Junqing Yu +3
Micro-video popularity prediction (MVPP) aims to forecast the future popularity of videos on online media, which is essential for applications such as content recommendation and tr…
IntervenSim: Intervention-Aware Social Network Simulation for Opinion Dynamics
Yunyao Zhang, Zuocheng Ying, Xinglang Zhang +5
LLM-based social network simulation introduces a new computational approach for modeling event evolution in complex online environments. However, existing methods typically simulat…
Coupling Macro Dynamics and Micro States for Long-Horizon Social Simulation
Yunyao Zhang, Yihao Ai, Zuocheng Ying +4
Social network simulation aims to model collective opinion dynamics in large populations, but existing LLM-based simulators mainly focus on aggregate dynamics while largely ignorin…
MVP: Winning Solution to SMP Challenge 2025 Video Track
Liliang Ye, Yunyao Zhang, Yafeng Wu +4
Social media platforms serve as central hubs for content dissemination, opinion expression, and public engagement across diverse modalities. Accurately predicting the popularity of…