Generative Regression Based Watch Time Prediction for Short-Video Recommendation.

@inproceedings{ma-2026-generative, author = {Hongxu Ma and Kai Tian and Tao Zhang and Xuefeng Zhang and Han Zhou and Chenghou Jin and Chunjie Chen and Han Li and Jihong Guan and Shuigeng Zhou}, editor = {Hakim Hacid and Yoelle Maarek and Francesco Bonchi and Ido Guy and Emine Yilmaz}, title = {{Generative Regression Based Watch Time Prediction for Short-Video Recommendation}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2026, WWW 2026, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, originally scheduled for April 13-17, 2026, rescheduled for June 29 - July 3, 2026}}, pages = {6183--6193}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3774904.3792290}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3774904.3792290} }