Highlights of Meituan’s KDD’26 Papers and the Champion Strategies for the DataAgents Track
This article presents eight Meituan research papers accepted at KDD 2026—covering recommendation foundation models, contrast‑driven reward modeling, agentic search benchmarks, deterministic ad allocation, cross‑domain ETA meta‑generalization, generative ad‑bidding, hierarchical multi‑slot allocation, and distributed generative recommendation training—along with a detailed walkthrough of the team’s winning approach in the KDD Cup 2026 DataAgents competition.
