5 papers
EcoTable: Cost-effective Table Integration in Data Lakes for Natural Language Queries
Yuhui Wang, Jinqi Liu, Chengliang Chai +8
The diverse formats of CSV and Parquet files in data lakes pose a significant challenge to traditional ETL, which relies on data engineers to pre-define a target database schema an…
JourneyFormer: Encoding Airbnb Guest Journey with Sequence Modeling
Daochen Zha, Chun How Tan, Xin Liu +9
Sequence modeling has become increasingly popular in recommendation and ranking algorithms, owing to its capacity to model users' historical behaviors and infer user intentions. De…
BiListing: Modality Alignment for Listings
Guillaume Guy, Mihajlo Grbovic, Chun How Tan +1
Airbnb is a leader in offering travel accommodations. Airbnb has historically relied on structured data to understand, rank, and recommend listings to guests due to the limited cap…
Predicting Potential Customer Support Needs and Optimizing Search Ranking in a Two-Sided Marketplace
Do-kyum Kim, Han Zhao, Huiji Gao +3
Airbnb is an online marketplace that connects hosts and guests to unique stays and experiences. When guests stay at homes booked on Airbnb, there are a small fraction of stays that…
Transforming Location Retrieval at Airbnb: A Journey from Heuristics to Reinforcement Learning
Dillon Davis, Huiji Gao, Thomas Legrand +6
The Airbnb search system grapples with many unique challenges as it continues to evolve. We oversee a marketplace that is nuanced by geography, diversity of homes, and guests with…