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FlowTime: Towards Continuous Generative Watch Time Prediction via Flow-based Personalized Priors

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arXiv:2606. 01352v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Watch time has emerged as a pivotal metric for optimizing deep user engagement in short-video recommender systems.

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