Program Schedule

Workshop Opening

Time: 8:00 AM - 8:05 AM

Invited Talk 1 (30min talk + 5min Q&A)

Time: 8:05 AM - 8:40 AM

Presenter: Frank Yang, Upwork

Title: "Recent advances and learnings on optimizing the 2-sided marketplace on Upwork"

Workshop Paper Presentations (10min talk + 2min Q&A)

Paper 1

Time: 8:40 AM-8:52 AM

Authors: Kazuki Kawamura, Takuma Udagawa and Kei Tateno, Sony

Title: "Counterfactual Reciprocal Recommender Systems for User-to-User Matching" [pdf]

Paper 2

Time: 8:52 AM-9:04 AM

Authors: Fernando F. Granado, Davi A. Bezerra, Iuri Queiroz, Nathan Oliveira, Pedro Fernandes and Bruno Schock, iFood

Title: "Personalized Recommendation of Dish and Restaurant Collections on iFood" [pdf]

Paper 3

Time: 9:04 AM-9:16 AM

Authors: Shuoyan Xu, Yu Zhang and Eric Miller, University of Toronto

Title: "Frailty-Aware Transformer for Recurrent Driver Retention Modeling in Two-Sided Marketplaces" [pdf]

Paper 4

Time: 9:16 AM-9:28 AM

Authors: Vignesh Ram Nithin Kappagantula and Shayan Hassantaba, Expedia

Title: "Room Scene Discovery and Grouping in Unstructured Vacation Rental Image Collections" [pdf]

Coffee Break (9:30AM-10:00AM)

Invited Talk 2 (30min talk + 5min Q&A)

Time: 10:00 AM-10:35 AM

Presenter: Ruben Lobel, Waymo

Title: "Optimization at Waymo: Fleet Scheduling, Positioning and Matching"

Workshop Paper Presentations (10min talk + 2min Q&A)

Paper 5

Time: 10:35 AM-10:47 AM

Authors: Sudheer Tubati and Amit Goyal, Amazon

Title: "Fraud Behind the Streams: Detecting streaming manipulation in Music platforms" [pdf]

Paper 6

Time: 10:47 AM-10:59 AM

Authors: Titing Cui and Michael Hamilton, University of Tulsa, University of Pittsburgh

Title: "Fresh Rating Systems" [pdf]

Paper 7

Time: 10:59 AM-11:11 AM

Authors: 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, Airbnb

Title: "High Precision Audience Expansion via Extreme Classification in a Two-Sided Marketplace" [pdf]

Paper 8

Time: 11:11 AM-11:23 AM

Authors: Andre Rusli, Shoma Ishimoto, Sho Akiyama and Aman Singh, Mercari

Title: "Zero-Shot Retrieval for Scalable Visual Search in a Two-Sided Marketplace" [pdf]

Invited Talk 3 (30min talk + 5min Q&A)

Time: 11:23 AM-11:58 AM

Presenter: Shaiza Qayyum, Uber

Title: "Optimizing for Tomorrow: Long-Term Consumer Pricing Strategy at Uber Eats"

Workshop Closing

11:58 AM-12:00 PM