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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…
cs.IR2026
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…
cs.IR2024
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…