Conferences
KDD 2025, Harnessing the Power of Interleaving and Counterfactual Evaluation for Airbnb Search Ranking. Qing Zhang, Alex Deng, Michelle Du, Huiji Gao, Liwei He, Sanjeev Katariya.
KDD 2025, High Precision Audience Expansion via Extreme Classification in a Two-Sided Marketplace. KDD workshop on TSMO: Two-sided Marketplace Optimization. Dillon Davis, Huiji Gao, Thomas Legrand, Juan Manuel Caicedo Carvajal, Malay Haldar, Kedar Bellare, Moutupsi Paul, Soumyadip Banerjee, Liwei He, Stephanie Moyerman and Sanjeev Katariya
CIKM 2025, Beyond Pairwise Learning-To-Rank At Airbnb. Malay Haldar, Daochen Zha, Huiji Gao, Liwei He, Sanjeev Katariya
CIKM 2025, Augmenting Guest Search Results with Recommendations at Airbnb. Haowei Zhang, Philbert Lin, Dishant Ailawadi, Soumyadip Banerjee, Shashank Dabriwal, Hao Li, Kedar Bellare, Liwei He and Sanjeev Katariya
CIKM 2025, Maps Ranking Optimization in Airbnb. Hongwei Zhang, Malay Haldar, Kedar Bellare, Sherry Chen, Soumyadip Banerjee, Xiaotang Wang, Mustafa Abdool, Huiji Gao, Pavan Tapadia, Liwei He, Sanjeev Katariya and Stephanie Moyerman
CIKM 2025, Learning to Comparison-Shop. Jie Tang, Daochen Zha, Xin Liu, Huiji Gao, Liwei He, Stephanie Moyerman and Sanjeev Katariya
CIKM 2025, BiListing: Modality Alignment for listings. Guillaume Guy, Mihajlo Grbovic, Chun How Tan and Han Zhao
Workshops
TSMO: Two-sided Marketplace Optimization, Mihajlo Grbovic, KDD 2025 Workshop
Airbnb Tech Blog
Embedding-Based Retrieval for Airbnb Search, Mustafa (Moose) Abdool, Soumyadip Banerjee, Karen Ouyang, Do-Kyum Kim, Moutupsi Paul, Xiaowei Liu, Bin Xu, Tracy Yu, Hui Gao, Yangbo Zhu, Huiji Gao, Liwei He, Sanjeev Katariya, Mar 2025.
Conferences
KDD 2024, Learning To Rank For Maps At Airbnb. Malay Haldar, Hongwei Zhang, Kedar Bellare, Sherry Chen, Soumyadip Banerjee, Xiaotang Wang, Mustafa Abdool, Huiji Gao, Pavan Tapadia, Liwei He, Sanjeev Katariya.
KDD 2024, Multi-objective Learning to Rank by Model Distillation. Jie Tang, Huiji Gao, Liwei He, Sanjeev Katariya.
CIKM 2024, Transforming Location Retrieval at Airbnb: A Journey from Heuristics to Reinforcement Learning. Dillon Davis, Huiji Gao, Thomas Legrand, Malay Haldar, Alex Deng, Han Zhao, Liwei He and Sanjeev Katariya.
KDD 2024, Predicting Potential Customer Support Needs and Optimizing Search Ranking in a Two-Sided Marketplace, KDD workshop on TSMO: Two-sided Marketplace Optimization. Do-Kyum Kim, Han Zhao, Huiji Gao, Liwei He, Malay Haldar, Sanjeev Katariya.
KDD 2024, Understanding User Booking Intent at Airbnb, KDD workshop on TSMO: Two-sided Marketplace Optimization. Xiaowei Liu, Weiwei Guo, Jie Tang, Sherry Chen, Huiji Gao, Liwei He, Pavan Tapadia, Sanjeev Katariya.
Workshops
TSMO: Two-sided Marketplace Optimization, Mihajlo Grbovic, KDD 2024 Workshop
Airbnb Tech Blog
Improving Search Ranking for Maps, Malay Haldar, Hongwei Zhang, Kedar Bellare Sherry Chen, Dec 2024.
Airbnb at KDD 2024, Huiji Gao, Peter Coles, Carolina Barcenas, Sanjeev Katariya, Dec 2024.
Transforming Location Retrieval at Airbnb: A Journey from Heuristics to Reinforcement Learning, Dillon Davis, Huiji Gao, Thomas Legrand, Weiwei Guo, Malay Haldar, Alex Deng, Han Zhao, Liwei He, Sanjeev Katariya, Nov 2024
Conferences
KDD 2023, Optimizing Airbnb Search Journey with Multi-task Learning. Chun How Tan, Austin Chan, Malay Haldar, Jie Tang, Xin Liu, Mustafa Abdool, Huiji Gao, Liwei He, Sanjeev Katariya.
KDD 2023, Variance Reduction Using In-Experiment Data: Efficient and Targeted Online Measurement for Sparse and Delayed Outcomes. Alex Deng, Michelle Du, Anna Matlin, Qing Zhang.
CIKM 2023, Learning To Rank Diversely At Airbnb. Malay Haldar, Mustafa Abdool, Liwei He, Dillon Davis, Huiji Gao, Sanjeev Katariya.
WSDM 2023, Zero to Hero: Exploiting Null Effects to Achieve Variance Reduction in Experiments with One-sided Triggering. Alex Deng, Lo-Hua Yuan, Naoya Kanai and Alexandre Salama-Manteau.
Airbnb Tech Blog
Mar 2023, [Part 2] Building Airbnb Categories with ML and Human-in-the-Loop. Mihajlo Grbovic, Ying Xiao, Pratiksha Kadam, Aaron Yin, Pei Xiong, Dillon Davis, Aditya Mukherji, Kedar Bellare, Haowei Zhang, Shukun Yang, Chen Qian, Sebastien Dubois, Nate Ney, James Furnary, Mark Giangreco, Nate Rosenthal, Cole Baker, Bill Ulammandakh, Sid Reddy, Egor Pakhomov.
Jan 2023, Learning To Rank Diversely. Malay Haldar, Liwei He, Moose Abdool.
Conferences
KDD 2022, A/B Testing Intuition Busters: Common Misunderstandings in Online Controlled Experiments. Ron Kohavi, Alex Deng, Lukas Vermeer.
Airbnb Tech Blog
Oct 2022, Beyond A/B Test : Speeding up Airbnb Search Ranking Experimentation through Interleaving. Qing Zhang, Michelle Du, Reid Andersen, Liwei He.
Nov 2022, [Part 1] Building Airbnb Categories with ML and Human-in-the-Loop. Mihajlo Grbovic, Ying Xiao, Pratiksha Kadam, Aaron Yin, Pei Xiong, Dillon Davis, Aditya Mukherji, Kedar Bellare, Haowei Zhang, Shukun Yang, Chen Qian, Sebastien Dubois, Nate Ney, James Furnary, Mark Giangreco, Nate Rosenthal, Cole Baker, Bill Ulammandakh, Sid Reddy, Egor Pakhomov.
Conferences
KDD 2021, On Post-selection Inference in A/B Testing. Alex Deng, Yicheng Li, Jiannan Lu and Vivek Ramamurthy.
WSDM 2021, Toward User Engagement Optimization in 2D Presentation, Liang Wu, Mihajlo Grbovic, Jundong Li.
Conferences
KDD 2020, Improving Deep Learning for Airbnb Search. Malay Haldar, Mustafa Abdool, Prashant Ramanathan, Tyler Sax, Lanbo Zhang, Aamir Manasawala, Shulin Yang, Bradley Turnbull, Junshuo Liao.
KDD 2020, Managing Diversity in Airbnb Search. Mustafa Abdool, Malay Haldar, Prashant Ramanathan, Tyler Sax, Lanbo Zhang, Aamir Manasawala, Shulin Yang, Bradley Turnbull, Qing Zhang, Thomas Legrand.
SIGIR 2020, How Airbnb Tells You Will Enjoy Sunset Sailing in Barcelona? Recommendation in a Two-Sided Travel Marketplace, Liang Wu, Mihajlo Grbovic.
Airbnb Tech Blog
Oct 2020, Improving Deep Learning for Ranking Stays at Airbnb. Malay Haldar, Moose Abdool.
Conferences
KDD 2019, Applying Deep Learning to Airbnb Search. Malay Haldar, Mustafa Abdool, Prashant Ramanathan, Tao Xu, Shulin Yang, Huizhong Duan, Qing Zhang, Nick Barrow-Williams, Bradley C. Turnbull, Brendan M. Collins, Thomas Legrand.
Airbnb Tech Blog
May 2019, Machine Learning-Powered Search Ranking of Airbnb Experiences. Mihajlo Grbovic, Eric Wu, Pai Liu, Chun How Tan, Liang Wu, Bo Yu, Alex Tian.
Conferences
KDD 2018, [Best Paper Award] Real-time Personalization using Embeddings for Search Ranking at Airbnb. Mihajlo Grbovic, Haibin Cheng.
Airbnb Tech Blog
Mar 2018, Listing Embeddings in Search Ranking. Mihajlo Grbovic, Haibin Cheng, Qing Zhang, Lynn Yang, Phillippe Siclait and Matt Jones.
Apr 2015, How Airbnb uses Machine Learning to Detect Host Preferences. Bar Ifrach.
May 2013, Location Relevance at Airbnb. Maxim Charkov, Riley Newman, Jan Overgoor.