From Short Video to Clickable Search: RLVR-Enabled Listwise Query Suggestion with Retrieval-Augmented Context (2026.acl-industry)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to generate short-video bottom-bar queries are largely retrieval-based. |
| Approach: | They propose to reformulate the task as one-shot list generation, producing multiple queries per video . they also build multi-query ground truth from exposure and CTR logs, and redesign offline evaluation . |
| Outcome: | The proposed system yields strong offline and online improvements . it is deployed on Kuaishou to serve hundreds of millions of users daily . |
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