PDAS: probability-driven adaptive streaming for short video

C Zhou, Y Ban, Y Zhao, L Guo, B Yu - Proceedings of the 30th ACM …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
To improve Quality of Experience (QoE) for short video applications, most commercial
companies adopt preloading and adaptive streaming technologies concurrently. Though …

Closing the Gap: Achieving Global Convergence (Last Iterate) of Actor-Critic under Markovian Sampling with Neural Network Parametrization

M Gaur, V Aggarwal, AS Bedi, D Wang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.01843, 2024 - arxiv.org
The current state-of-the-art theoretical analysis of Actor-Critic (AC) algorithms significantly
lags in addressing the practical aspects of AC implementations. This crucial gap needs …

An Intelligent Learning Approach to Achieve Near-Second Low-Latency Live Video Streaming under Highly Fluctuating Networks

G Zhang, K Liu, M Xiao, B Wang… - Proceedings of the 31st …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Fueled by the rapid advances in high-speed mobile networks, live video streaming has seen
explosive growth in recent years and many DASH-based bitrate adaptive streaming …

Network-aware prefetching method for short-form video streaming

D Nguyen, P Nguyen, V Long… - 2022 IEEE 24th …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent years have witnessed the rising of short-form video platforms such as TikTok. Apart
from conventional videos, short-form videos are much shorter and users frequently change …

[HTML][HTML] Short video preloading via domain knowledge assisted deep reinforcement learning

Y Xie, Y Zhang, T Lin, Z Pan, SZ Qian, B Jiang… - Digital Communications …, 2024 - Elsevier
Short video applications like TikTok have seen significant growth in recent years. One
common behavior of users on these platforms is watching and swiping through videos …

Alfie: Neural-reinforced adaptive prefetching for short videos

J Li, H Xu, M Ma, H Yan, CJ Xue - 2022 IEEE International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Short videos have received extraordinary success in recent years. To provide smooth
playback and avoid rebuffering delay, prefetching upcoming videos is commonly used in …

Improving ABR Performance for Short Video Streaming Using Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Expert Guidance

Y Li, Q Zheng, Z Zhang, H Chen, Z Ma - Proceedings of the 33rd …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
In the realm of short video streaming, popular adaptive bitrate (ABR) algorithms developed
for classical long video applications suffer from catastrophic failures because they are tuned …

Joint Preloading and Bitrate Adaptation for Short Video Streaming

NT Phong, TT Huong, PN Nam, TC Thang… - IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Short videos have become one of the most popular content mobile users consume
nowadays. However, unlike traditional videos, users watch many short videos each time and …

Digital Twin-Assisted Adaptive Preloading for Short Video Streaming

S Liu, W Wu, S Li, TH Luany - arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.07836, 2023 - arxiv.org
We propose a digital twin-assisted adaptive preloading scheme to enhance bandwidth
efficiency and user quality of experience (QoE) in short video streaming. We first analyze the …

Startup Delay Aware Short Video Ordering: Problem, Model, and A Reinforcement Learning based Algorithm

Z Gao, C Li, Y Zhao, B Zhang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.07411, 2024 - arxiv.org
Short video applications have attracted billions of users on the Internet and can satisfy
diverse users' fragmented spare time with content-rich and duration-short videos. To achieve …