Identifying groups for a social networking system user based on interactions by the user with various groups

A system comprising:

• at least one processor;
• and
• a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the system to perform:
• storing information describing a plurality of groups of an online system, each group in the plurality of groups including one or more users of the online system;
• acquiring, from a requesting user of the online system, a request to identify a set of groups;
• acquiring information describing one or more interactions between the requesting user and one or more groups in the plurality of groups;
• determining, based on applying a model to the one or more interactions, one or more frequencies with which the requesting user performs the one or more interactions with respect to the one or more groups;
• determining, based on the one or more frequencies, one or more scores for the one or more groups, each of the one or more scores representing a respective likelihood that the requesting user will interact with each of the one or more groups within a specified time interval;
• identifying, based on the one or more scores, at least one of the one or more groups that satisfies specified criteria;
• and
• selecting the at least one of the one or more groups to be included in the set of groups.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including instructions that, when executed by at least one processor of a computing system, cause the computing system to perform a method comprising:

• storing information describing a plurality of groups of an online system, each group in the plurality of groups including one or more users of the online system;
• acquiring, from a requesting user of the online system, a request to identify a set of groups;
• acquiring information describing one or more interactions between the requesting user and one or more groups in the plurality of groups;
• determining, based on applying a model to the one or more interactions, one or more frequencies with which the requesting user performs the one or more interactions with respect to the one or more groups;
• determining, based on the one or more frequencies, one or more scores for the one or more groups, each of the one or more scores representing a respective likelihood that the requesting user will interact with each of the one or more groups within a specified time interval;
• identifying, based on the one or more scores, at least one of the one or more groups that satisfies specified criteria;
• and
• selecting the at least one of the one or more groups to be included in the set of groups.