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Quality Over Clicks: Iterative Reinforcement Learning for Early-Stage E-Commerce Query Suggestion

Research from AlibabaPublished by Association for Computational LinguisticsOct 2026PDF

Compare a quality-oriented objective with click-driven signals when generating the first suggestions in a retail search session.

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Qi Sun, Kejun Xiao, Huaipeng Zhao, Tao Luo, Xiaoyi Zeng. Quality Over Clicks: Iterative Reinforcement Learning for Early-Stage E-Commerce Query Suggestion. Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Industry Track. © 2026 Association for Computational Linguistics. CC BY 4.0. 10.18653/2026.emnlp-industry.45. Original PDF, unmodified.

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Quality Over Clicks: Iterative Reinforcement Learning for Early-Stage E-Commerce Query Suggestion

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