Gravitational lensing effect is one of most significant observational probes to investigate compact dark matter/objects over a wide mass range. In this work, we first propose to derive the population information and the abundance of supermassive compact dark matter in the mass range $\sim {10}^5–{10}^7{M}_{\odot }$ from six millilensed $\gamma$-ray burst (GRB) candidates in 3000 Fermi GRB events using the hierarchical Bayesian inference method. We obtain that, for the mass range $\sim {10}^5–{10}^7{M}_{\odot }$, the abundance of supermassive compact dark matter is $f_{\mathrm{CO}}={10}^{-1.60}$ in the log-normal mass distribution scenario. This result is in obvious tension with some other observational constraints, e.g., ultrafaint dwarfs and dynamical friction. However, it also was argued that there is only one system in these six candidates that has been identified as a lensed GRB event with fairly high confidence. In this case, the tension would be significantly alleviated. Therefore, it would be an interesting clue for both the millilensed GRB identification and the formation mechanism of supermassive compact dark matter.

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• Dark matter
• Massive compact halo objects