动态预加载视频,提升观看体验并节省带宽。
DeLoad: Demand-Driven Short-Video Preloading with Scalable Watch-Time Estimation
- 根据用户行为动态调整下载任务大小,适应网络变化。
- 预测观看时长更准,实测播放体验提升34.4%至87.4%。
- 适合大规模短视频平台部署,兼顾流畅与省流。
短视频流媒体已成为数字媒体主流,以快速滑动和多样化内容为特征。核心挑战在于设计高效的预加载策略,从动态变化的播放列表中智能选择并优先下载内容,在实际商业约束下平衡用户体验(QoE)与带宽效率。然而真实场景分析揭示现有方法存在两大问题:(1) 下载任务规模难以适应动态条件;(2) 观看时长预测模型难以规模化可靠部署。本文提出DeLoad,通过引入动态任务尺寸与可规模化部署的多维度观看时长估计方法,解决上述问题。同时,采用深度强化学习(DRL)训练智能代理,自适应优化下载范围决策。基于海量真实网络数据的离线平台评估显示,DeLoad在QoE指标上取得34.4%至87.4%的显著提升。在大型商业短视频平台上线后,整体用户观看时长增加0.09%,同时减少重缓冲事件并降低3.76%带宽消耗。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Short video streaming has become a dominant paradigm in digital media, characterized by rapid swiping interactions and diverse media content. A key technical challenge is designing an effective preloading strategy that dynamically selects and prioritizes download tasks from an evolving playlist, balancing Quality of Experience (QoE) and bandwidth efficiency under practical commercial constraints. However, real world analysis reveals critical limitations of existing approaches: (1) insufficient adaptation of download task sizes to dynamic conditions, and (2) watch time prediction models that are difficult to deploy reliably at scale. In this paper, we propose DeLoad, a novel preloading framework that addresses these issues by introducing dynamic task sizing and a practical, multi dimensional watch time estimation method. Additionally, a Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) enhanced agent is trained to optimize the download range decisions adaptively. Extensive evaluations conducted on an offline testing platform, leveraging massive real world network data, demonstrate that DeLoad achieves significant improvements in QoE metrics (34.4% to 87.4% gain). Furthermore, after deployment on a large scale commercial short video platform, DeLoad has increased overall user watch time by 0.09% while simultaneously reducing rebuffering events and 3.76% bandwidth consumption.
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