Following the TRAIL: Predicting and Explaining Tomorrow's Hits with a Fine-Tuned LLM.

@inproceedings{zhang-2026-following, author = {Yinan Zhang and Zhixi Chen and Jiazheng Jing and Zhiqi Shen}, editor = {Hakim Hacid and Yoelle Maarek and Francesco Bonchi and Ido Guy and Emine Yilmaz}, title = {{Following the TRAIL: Predicting and Explaining Tomorrow's Hits with a Fine-Tuned LLM}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2026, WWW 2026, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, originally scheduled for April 13-17, 2026, rescheduled for June 29 - July 3, 2026}}, pages = {6719--6730}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3774904.3792616}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3774904.3792616} }