Workshop Opening
Time: 12:55 PM - 1:00 PM
Invited Talk 1 (25min talk + 5min Q&A)
Time: 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Presenter: Paul Bennett, Spotify
Title: "TBD"
Workshop Paper Presentations (12min talk + 3min Q&A)
Paper 1 [pdf]
Time: 1:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Authors: Hao Li, Kedar Bellare, Siyu Yang, Sherry Chen, Liwei He, Stephanie Moyerman and Sanjeev Katariya, Airbnb
Title: "Recommending Search Filters To Improve Conversions At Airbnb"
Paper 2 [pdf]
Time: 1:45 PM - 2:00 PM
Authors: Syed Mohammed Arshad Zaidi, Eric Rincon and Shayan Hassantabar, Expedia
Title: "Serving the Long Tail: Training-Free LLM Candidate Generation for Vacation Rental Marketplaces"
Paper 3 [pdf]
Time: 2:00 PM - 2:15 PM
Authors: Jing Zhou, Dominik Janzing, Sepp Tsang, Patrick Blöbaum and Marco Visentini Scarzanella, Amazon
Title: "A Unified Approach to Interpretable Causal Root Cause Attribution"
Paper 4 [pdf]
Time: 2:15 PM - 2:30 PM
Authors: Ji Xin, Xiao Xiao, Ishan Bhatt, Vinesh Gudla, Trace Levinson, Raochuan Fan, Shishir Kumar Prasad, Prakash Putta and Tejaswi Tenneti, Instacart
Title: "Improving Item Discoverability in e-Commerce Search via Related Intent Generation"
Poster Session Time: 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Invited Talk 2 (25min talk + 5min Q&A)
Time: 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Presenter: Vanja Josifovski, Nvidia
Title: Predictions on relational data without predictive modeling
Workshop Paper Presentations (12min talk + 3min Q&A)
Paper 5 [pdf]
Time: 4:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Authors: Romain Camilleri, Mehdi Golari, Farbod Ekbatani and Rad Niazadeh, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Lyft
Title: "Non-Exclusive Notifications for Ride-Hailing at Lyft: Algorithms, Simulations, and Marketplace Analysis"
Paper 6 [pdf]
Time: 4:15 PM - 4:30 PM
Authors: Ruyue Zhang, Minhao Qi, Xiaopeng Ke, Ming Liu, Fangzhou Shi, Chang Men, Zhengdan Zhu and Xun Liu, DiDi
Title: "Multi-Level Incentive Response Modeling for Ride-Hailing Marketplace Pricing"
Invited Talk 3 (25min talk + 5min Q&A)
Time: 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Presenter: Baoyuan Wang, Zillow
Title: From Search to Guidance: Reimagining Real Estate Marketplace with Agentic AI
Workshop Closing
Time: 5:00 PM - 5:05 PM