Nowadays, social networks play a crucial role in human everyday life and no longer purely associated with spare time spending. In fact, instant communication with friends and colleagues has become an essential component of our daily interaction giving a raise of multiple new social network types emergence. By participating in such networks, individuals generate a multitude of data points that describe their activities from different perspectives and, for example, can be further used for applications such as personalized recommendation or user profiling. However, the impact of the different social media networks on machine learning model performance has not been studied comprehensively yet. Particularly, the literature on modeling multi-modal data from multiple social networks is relatively sparse, which had inspired us to take a deeper dive into the topic in this preliminary study. Specifically, in this work, we will study the performance of different machine learning models when being learned on multi-modal data from different social networks. Our initial experimental results reveal that social network choice impacts the performance and the proper selection of data source is crucial.
User profile learning, such as mobility and demographic profile learning, is of great importance to various applications. Meanwhile, the rapid growth of multiple social platforms makes it possible to perform a comprehensive user profile learning from different views. However, the research efforts on user profile learning from multiple data sources are still relatively sparse, and there is no large-scale dataset released towards user profile learning. In our study, we contribute such benchmark and perform an initial study on user mobility and demographic profile learning. First, we constructed and released a large-scale multi-source multimodal dataset from three geographical areas. We then applied our proposed ensemble model on this dataset to learn user profile. Based on our experimental results, we observed that multiple data sources mutually complement each other and their appropriate fusion boosts the user profiling performance.
Wellness is a widely popular concept that is commonly applied to fitness and self-help products or services. Inference of personal wellness-related attributes, such as Body Mass Index (BMI) category or diseases tendency, as well as understanding of global dependencies between wellness attributes and users’ behavior is of crucial importance to various applications in personal and public wellness domains. At the same time, the emergence of social media platforms and wearable sensors makes it feasible to perform wellness profiling for users from multiple perspectives. However, research efforts on wellness profiling and integration of social media and sensor data are relatively sparse, and this study represents one of the first attempts in this direction. Specifically, we infer personal wellness attributes by utilizing our proposed multi-source multitask wellness profile learning framework — “WellMTL”, which can handle data incompleteness and perform wellness attributes inference from sensor and social media data simultaneously. To gain insights into the data at a global level, we also examine correlations between first-order data representations and personal wellness attributes. Our experimental results show that the integration of sensor data and multiple social media sources can substantially boost the performance of individual wellness profiling.
Artificial intelligence has completely redefined the world we live in today. Now, our mornings start with personal assistants waking us up and laying our favorite playlists. Bots help customers with their questions and issues about the services and products they have purchased. And now, artificial intelligence is capable of redefining influencer marketing with the power of creating a persona.
Meet Maya — the next-generation virtual influencer set to transform the concept of brand marketing.
The SoMin.ai startup, which improves its ad targeting using artificial intelligence, has entered an emerging market. A Singapore-based startup uses big data and artificial intelligence to boost conversions.
In targeted advertising from Citibank, AI increased conversion by 53% and reduced the cost of customer contacts by 43%, SoMin.ai founder Alex Farseev told DP. The Lenta network noted a 2.5-fold improvement in the effectiveness of an advertising campaign. Somin.ai is currently working with MTS.
Lenta has completed piloting a Singapore startup to set up targeted advertising, the company's press service reports.
Lenta's digital marketing service, with the support of the company's Innovation Center, tested the project on an Instagram advertising platform for a month. The artificial intelligence platform processed data from social networks and determined user preferences.
As a result, the effectiveness of targeted advertising has increased 2.5 times compared to using classic tools for launching advertising campaigns. It was originally planned that this figure will grow by 20%.
“During testing, we paid attention not only to the cost per click, but also to the bounce rate. Quality traffic is important to us. The startup really identified users for whom our advertising was relevant, ”said Boris Evdokimov, head of Lenta's digital marketing department.
Thanks to the use of artificial intelligence, the company will be able to halve the costs of launching advertising campaigns on Instagram and increase the number of conversions in stores by 37%.
Earlier it was reported that "Lenta" opened a large distribution center in the Leningrad region. Online sales of Lenta grew 6.5 times in Q3 2020.