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Prediction in social networks attracts more and more attentions since social networks have become an important part of people’s lives. Although a few topic or event prediction models have been proposed in the past few years, researches that focus on the single tweet prediction just emerge recently. In this paper, we propose STH-Bass, a Spatial and Temporal Heterogeneous Bass model derived from economic field, to predict the popularity of a single tweet. Leveraging only the first day’s information after a tweet is posted, STH-Bass can not only predict the trend of a tweet with favorite count and retweet count, but also classify whether the tweet will be popular in the future. We perform extensive experiments to evaluate the efficiency and accuracy of STH-Bass based on real-world Twitter data. The evaluation results show that STH-Bass obtains much less APE than the baselines when predicting the trend of a single tweet, and an average of 24 % higher precision when classifying the tweets popularity.
This work has been supported in part by the China 973 project (2012CB316200), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant number 61202024, 61472252, 61133006, 61272443, 61473109), the Opening Project of Key Lab of Information Network Security of Ministry of Public Security (The Third Research Institute of Ministry of Public Security) Grant number C15602, and the Opening Project of Baidu (Grant number 181515P005267).
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Yan, Y., Tan, Z., Gao, X., Tang, S., Chen, G. (2016). STH-Bass: A Spatial-Temporal Heterogeneous Bass Model to Predict Single-Tweet Popularity. In: Navathe, S., Wu, W., Shekhar, S., Du, X., Wang, S., Xiong, H. (eds) Database Systems for Advanced Applications. DASFAA 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9643. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32049-6_2
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