Facebook, Inc.

Jerry Ju

Bradley Ray Green

David Ian Ferguson

Jonathan Daniel Sorg

Antoine Joseph Atallah

Jireh Yiwei Tan

Jun Sun

Xun Gong

Kyle Philip Meyer

Pooja Jain

Andrew Rocco Tresolini Fiore

In one embodiment, a set of user groups of a social-networking system may be accessed. A first subset of the user groups may be determined for a particular user of the social-networking system, based on one or more filtering criteria. A number of recommendation-source processes may be applied to the first subset to determine a number of second subsets of the first set. Each recommendation-source process may represent a particular recommendation source. The second subsets may be combined into a list of user groups. The list of user groups may be ranked, and sent to the particular user.

Ranking and filtering groups recommendations

A social networking system selects a set of groups for presentation to a user of the social networking system. To select groups, the social networking system determining scores for various groups representing a likelihood of the user interacting with the groups. When determining a score for a group, the social networking system accounts for a likelihood of the user providing content to the group as well as the user accessing or viewing content associated with the group. Based on the scores, one or more groups are selected and presented to the user. Additionally, the social networking system may apply one or more diversity rules so that the selected groups have a variety of characteristics.

Identifying groups for a social networking system user based on group characteristics and likelihood of user interaction

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Woodinville, WA, United States of America

Jerry Ju