Machine learning for adaptive bitrate selection

A system for adaptive bitrate selection, comprising:

• one or more memories;
• and
• at least one processor each coupled to at least one of the memories and configured to perform operations comprising:
• receiving a data streaming request;
• predicting, by a speed predictive machine learning model and based on one or more of a plurality of streaming parameters, a current sustainable network bandwidth, wherein the speed predictive machine learning model is trained using a training data set comprising a history of the one or more streaming parameters;
• predicting, by a rebuffer predictive machine learning model and based on the current sustainable network bandwidth, a buffer level of a data buffer, and N available discrete bitrates, a candidate bitrate at which a likelihood of rebuffering of the data buffer occurs less than a threshold percentage;
• selecting, based on the candidate bitrate, a download bitrate to complete the streaming request;
• and
• downloading streaming data at the download bitrate.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by at least one computing device, cause the at least one computing device to perform operations comprising:

• receiving a data streaming request;
• predicting, by a speed predictive machine learning model and based on one or more of a plurality of streaming parameters, a current sustainable network bandwidth, wherein the speed predictive machine learning model is trained using a training data set comprising a history of the one or more streaming parameters;
• predicting, by a rebuffer predictive machine learning model and based on the one or more streaming parameters, the current sustainable network bandwidth, a buffer level of a data buffer, and N available discrete bitrates, a candidate bitrate at which a likelihood of rebuffering of the data buffer occurs less than a threshold percentage;
• selecting, based on the candidate bitrate, a download bitrate to complete the streaming request;
• and
• downloading streaming data at the download bitrate.