Bridging the Gap: Generative Retrieval via Query-to-Multi-Span Framework for Effective E-commerce Search.

@inproceedings{wang-2026-bridging, author = {Huimu Wang and Geoffrey E. Hinton and Yiming Qiu and Ruixin Li and Sulong Xu and Geoffrey E. Hinton and Yiming Qiu and Wolfgang Nejdl and Zhenlin He and Jingwei Zhuo and Yu Yin and Xingzhi Yao and Guangtao Nie and Luca Rossetto and Le Dai and Mingming Li and Guangtao Nie and Luca Rossetto and Zuxu Chen and Wolfgang Nejdl and Zhenlin He and Songlin Wang and Guoyu Tang and Ruixin Li and Sulong Xu and Jingwei Zhuo and Yu Yin and Le Dai and Mingming Li}, editor = {Hannah Bast and Alistair Moffat and Falk Scholer and Marc Najork and Min Zhang and Hannah Bast and Marc Najork and Min Zhang}, title = {{Bridging the Gap: Generative Retrieval via Query-to-Multi-Span Framework for Effective E-commerce Search}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2026, MelbourneVICAustralia, July 20-24, 2026}}, pages = {4960--4964}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3808479}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3808479} }