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View article: Learning to Rank for Maps at Airbnb
Learning to Rank for Maps at Airbnb Open
As a two-sided marketplace, Airbnb brings together hosts who own listings for rent with prospective guests from around the globe. Results from a guest's search for listings are displayed primarily through two interfaces: (1) as a list of r…
View article: Optimizing Airbnb Search Journey with Multi-task Learning
Optimizing Airbnb Search Journey with Multi-task Learning Open
At Airbnb, an online marketplace for stays and experiences, guests often\nspend weeks exploring and comparing multiple items before making a final\nreservation request. Each reservation request may then potentially be rejected\nor cancelle…
View article: Achieving and Understanding Out-of-Distribution Generalization in Systematic Reasoning in Small-Scale Transformers
Achieving and Understanding Out-of-Distribution Generalization in Systematic Reasoning in Small-Scale Transformers Open
Out-of-distribution generalization (OODG) is a longstanding challenge for neural networks. This challenge is quite apparent in tasks with well-defined variables and rules, where explicit use of the rules could solve problems independently …
View article: Learning To Rank Diversely At Airbnb
Learning To Rank Diversely At Airbnb Open
Airbnb is a two-sided marketplace, bringing together hosts who own listings for rent, with prospective guests from around the globe. Applying neural network-based learning to rank techniques has led to significant improvements in matching …
View article: Managing Diversity in Airbnb Search
Managing Diversity in Airbnb Search Open
One of the long-standing questions in search systems is the role of diversity in results. From a product perspective, showing diverse results provides the user with more choice and should lead to an improved experience. However, this intui…
View article: Improving Deep Learning For Airbnb Search
Improving Deep Learning For Airbnb Search Open
The application of deep learning to search ranking was one of the most impactful product improvements at Airbnb. But what comes next after you launch a deep learning model? In this paper we describe the journey beyond, discussing what we r…
View article: Applying Deep Learning to Airbnb Search
Applying Deep Learning to Airbnb Search Open
The application to search ranking is one of the biggest machine learning\nsuccess stories at Airbnb. Much of the initial gains were driven by a gradient\nboosted decision tree model. The gains, however, plateaued over time. This\npaper dis…