2 papers
cs.LG2026
Proximity Features: Privacy-Compliant Cold-Start Personalization at Airbnb
Wei Jiang, Bin Xu, Hui Gao +6
Personalization in two-sided marketplaces relies heavily on user-level features, yet for platforms with infrequent, high-consideration purchases, a large fraction of users lack suf…
cs.IR2026
Bridging the Cold-Start Gap: LLM-Powered Synthetic Data Generation for Natural Language Search at Airbnb
Wendy Ran Wei, Hao Li, Weiwei Guo +9
Deploying natural language search systems presents a critical cold-start challenge: no real user queries to learn linguistic patterns, and no relevance labels to train ranking mode…