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Recent deep learning models generally utilize graph neural networks to model the complex relationship between information cascade graph and future popularity, and have shown better prediction results compared with traditional methods. However, existing models adopt simple graph pooling strategies, e.g., summation or average, which prone to generate inefficient cascade graph representation and lead to unsatisfactory prediction results. Meanwhile, they often overlook the temporal information in the diffusion process which has been proved to be a salient predictor for popularity prediction. To focus attention on the important users and exclude noises caused by other less relevant users when generating cascade graph representation, we learn the importance coefficient of users and adopt sample mechanism in graph pooling process. In order to capture the temporal features in the diffusion process, we incorporate the inter-infection duration time information into our model by using LSTM neural network. The results show that temporal information rather than cascade graph information is a better predictor for popularity. The experimental results on real datasets show that our model significantly improves the prediction accuracy compared with other state-of-the-art methods.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/axioms10030159","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,7,23]],"date-time":"2021-07-23T10:31:44Z","timestamp":1627036304000},"page":"159","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":14,"title":["Popularity Prediction of Online Contents via Cascade Graph and Temporal Information"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"given":"Yingdan","family":"Shang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China"}]},{"given":"Bin","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China"}]},{"given":"Ye","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China"}]},{"given":"Aiping","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China"}]},{"given":"Kai","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China"}]},{"given":"Yichen","family":"Song","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China"}]},{"given":"Changjian","family":"Lin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,7,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"295","DOI":"10.1038\/nature11421","article-title":"A 61-million-person experiment in social influence and political mobilization","volume":"489","author":"Bond","year":"2012","journal-title":"Nature"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Wu, Q., Gao, Y., Gao, X., Weng, P., and Chen, G. 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