4 papers
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…
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…
CASTLE: Contrastive and Seed-Guided Training for Cold-Start Natural Language Search
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…
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…