3 papers
cs.NI2026
SILC: Lookahead Caching for Short-form Video Delivery Systems
Maleeha Masood, Shreya Kannan, Om Chabra +2
Short video platforms like TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts have gained immense popularity in the last few years and are responsible for a large and growing fraction of…
cs.CV2026
On the Generalizability of Foundation Models for Crop Type Mapping
Yi-Chia Chang, Adam J. Stewart, Favyen Bastani +5
Foundation models pre-trained using self-supervised learning have shown powerful transfer learning capabilities on various downstream tasks, including language understanding, text…
cs.SI2026
Counting How the Seconds Count: Understanding Algorithm-User Interplay in TikTok via ML-driven Analysis of Video Content
Maleeha Masood, Shreya Kannan, Zikun Liu +2
Short video streaming systems such as TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, etc., have reached billions of active users worldwide. At the core of such systems are (proprietary)…