APPLYING A TRAINED MODEL FOR PREDICTING QUALITY OF A CONTENT ITEM ALONG A GRADUATED SCALE

摘要

An online system receives a request to present a content item to a viewing user who is associated with a set of user attributes. The online system retrieves a regression model for predicting an expected quality for a particular content item and a particular set of users attributes. The regression model was trained, using machine learning, based on user-assigned quality scores, each corresponding to a content item and provided by a quality-assigning user, and sets of user attributes, each set associated with one of the quality-assigning users. The online system uses the regression model to predict a quality score, indicating the quality of a content item to the viewing user, based on the set of user attributes that is associated with the viewing user. The online system determines to provide the content to the viewing user based on the quality score, and transmits the content item to the viewing user.