Automated trailer generation

A non-transitory computer readable medium including instructions for automated trailer generation that when performed by a computing system, cause the computing system to perform operations comprising:

• (a) generating, by one or more computing devices, an initial set of candidate points to generate a trailer for a media content;
• (b) generating an updated set of candidate points for the initial set of candidate points based on a conversion data;
• (c) computing a value for each of the updated set of candidate points, wherein the value is computed based on adding an estimated mean and an upper bound determined for each of the updated set of candidate points;
• (d) generating a ranked list based on the value computed for each of the updated set of candidate points;
• and
• (e) performing (b)-(d) using a new initial set of candidate points generated and input into a Multi-Armed Bandit (MAB) model until a termination condition is reached, wherein the termination condition results in an output indicating an optimal point for generating the trailer.

A computing system for automated trailer generation comprising:

• a memory storing instructions;
• and
• one or more processors, coupled to the memory, configured to process the instructions to:
• (a) generate an initial set of candidate points to generate a trailer for a media content;
• (b) generate an updated set of candidate points for the initial set of candidate points based on a conversion data;
• (c) compute a value for each of the updated set of candidate points, wherein the value is computed based on adding an estimated mean and an upper bound determined for each of the updated set of candidate points;
• (d) generate a ranked list based on the value computed for each of the updated set of candidate points;
• (e) perform (b)-(d) using a new initial set of candidate points generated and input into a Multi-Armed Bandit (MAB) model until a termination condition is reached, wherein the termination condition results in an output indicating an optimal point for generating the trailer;
• and
• wherein generating the initial set of candidate points is based on randomly choosing the initial set of candidate points.