Gaussian Mixture Model Based Interest Prediction In Social Networks

In this paper, we investigate a typical clustering technology, namely, Gaussian mixture model (GMM)-based approach, for user interest prediction in social networks. The establishment of the model follows the following process: collect dataset from 4613 users and more than 16 million messages from Sina Weibo; obtain each user's interest eigenvalue sequence and establish GMM model to clustering users. In theory and experiment, this approach is feasible. The GMM-based approach considers the prediction accuracy and consuming time. A series of experiments are conducted to validate the feasibility and efficiency of the proposed solution and whether it can achieve a higher accuracy of prediction compared with other approaches, such as SVM and K-means. Further experiments show that GMM-based approach could produce higher prediction accuracy of 93.9%, thus leveraging computation complexity.