3 papers
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
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…
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…