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Predicting the Popularity of Online News Based on the Dynamic Fusion of Multiple Features

Guohui Song1,2, Yongbin Wang1,*, Jianfei Li1, Hongbin Hu1

1 State Key Laboratory of Media Convergence and Communication, Communication University of China, Beijing, 100024, China
2 School of Computer and Cyber Sciences, Communication University of China, Beijing, 100024, China

* Corresponding Author: Yongbin Wang. Email: email

(This article belongs to the Special Issue: Optimization for Artificial Intelligence Application)

Computers, Materials & Continua 2023, 76(2), 1621-1641. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2023.040095

Abstract

Predicting the popularity of online news is essential for news providers and recommendation systems. Time series, content and meta-feature are important features in news popularity prediction. However, there is a lack of exploration of how to integrate them effectively into a deep learning model and how effective and valuable they are to the model’s performance. This work proposes a novel deep learning model named Multiple Features Dynamic Fusion (MFDF) for news popularity prediction. For modeling time series, long short-term memory networks and attention-based convolution neural networks are used to capture long-term trends and short-term fluctuations of online news popularity. The typical convolution neural network gets headline semantic representation for modeling news headlines. In addition, a hierarchical attention network is exploited to extract news content semantic representation while using the latent Dirichlet allocation model to get the subject distribution of news as a semantic supplement. A factorization machine is employed to model the interaction relationship between meta-features. Considering the role of these features at different stages, the proposed model exploits a time-based attention fusion layer to fuse multiple features dynamically. During the training phase, this work designs a loss function based on Newton’s cooling law to train the model better. Extensive experiments on the real-world dataset from Toutiao confirm the effectiveness of the dynamic fusion of multiple features and demonstrate significant performance improvements over state-of-the-art news prediction techniques.

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Song, G., Wang, Y., Li, J., Hu, H. (2023). Predicting the popularity of online news based on the dynamic fusion of multiple features. Computers, Materials & Continua, 76(2), 1621-1641. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2023.040095
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Song G, Wang Y, Li J, Hu H. Predicting the popularity of online news based on the dynamic fusion of multiple features. Comput Mater Contin. 2023;76(2):1621-1641 https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2023.040095
IEEE Style
G. Song, Y. Wang, J. Li, and H. Hu, “Predicting the Popularity of Online News Based on the Dynamic Fusion of Multiple Features,” Comput. Mater. Contin., vol. 76, no. 2, pp. 1621-1641, 2023. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2023.040095



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