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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…
An Embarrassingly Simple Graph Heuristic Reveals Shortcut-Solvable Benchmarks for Sequential Recommendation
Haoyu Han, Li Ma, Hanbing Wang +9
Sequential recommendation has increasingly shifted toward generative recommenders that combine sequential patterns with semantic item information. Yet these methods are often evalu…
Recommending Search Filters To Improve Conversions At Airbnb
Hao Li, Kedar Bellare, Siyu Yang +4
Airbnb, a two-sided online marketplace connecting guests and hosts, offers a diverse and unique inventory of accommodations, experiences, and services. Search filters play an impor…
High Precision Audience Expansion via Extreme Classification in a Two-Sided Marketplace
Dillon Davis, Huiji Gao, Thomas Legrand +8
Airbnb search must balance a worldwide, highly varied supply of homes with guests whose location, amenity, style, and price expectations differ widely. Meeting those expectations h…
Applying Embedding-Based Retrieval to Airbnb Search
Mustafa Abdool, Soumyadip Banerjee, Moutupsi Paul +10
The goal of Airbnb search is to match guests with the ideal accommodation that fits their travel needs. This is a challenging problem, as popular search locations can have around a…
Learning to Comparison-Shop
Jie Tang, Daochen Zha, Xin Liu +4
In online marketplaces like Airbnb, users frequently engage in comparison shopping before making purchase decisions. Despite the prevalence of this behavior, a significant disconne…