Clickbait vs. quality: How engagement-based optimization shapes the content landscape in online platforms

N Immorlica, M Jagadeesan, B Lucier - Proceedings of the ACM on Web …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Online content platforms commonly use engagement-based optimization when making
recommendations. This encourages content creators to invest in quality, but also rewards …

Unveiling User Satisfaction and Creator Productivity Trade-Offs in Recommendation Platforms

F Yao, Y Liao, J Liu, S Nie, Q Wang, H Xu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
On User-Generated Content (UGC) platforms, recommendation algorithms significantly
impact creators' motivation to produce content as they compete for algorithmically allocated …

PPA-Game: Characterizing and Learning Competitive Dynamics Among Online Content Creators

R Xu, H Wang, X Zhang, B Li, P Cui - arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.15524, 2024 - arxiv.org
We introduce the Proportional Payoff Allocation Game (PPA-Game) to model how agents,
akin to content creators on platforms like YouTube and TikTok, compete for divisible …

User Welfare Optimization in Recommender Systems with Competing Content Creators

F Yao, Y Liao, M Wu, C Li, Y Zhu, J Yang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Driven by the new economic opportunities created by the creator economy, an increasing
number of content creators rely on and compete for revenue generated from online content …

User-Creator Feature Polarization in Recommender Systems with Dual Influence

T Lin, K Jin, A Estornell, X Zhang, Y Chen… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Recommender systems serve the dual purpose of presenting relevant content to users and
helping content creators reach their target audience. The dual nature of these systems …