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Building a User Signals Platform at Airbnb
Building a User Signals Platform at Airbnb
How Airbnb built a stream processing platform to power user personalization.
Kidai Kwon
Nov 20
Airbnb’s AI-powered photo tour using Vision Transformer
Airbnb’s AI-powered photo tour using Vision Transformer
Boosting computer vision accuracy and performance at Airbnb
Pei Xiong
Nov 13
Automation Platform v2: Improving Conversational AI at Airbnb
Automation Platform v2: Improving Conversational AI at Airbnb
How Airbnb’s conversational AI platform powers LLM application development.
Chutian Wang
Oct 28
Sandcastle: data/AI apps for everyone
Sandcastle: data/AI apps for everyone
Airbnb made it easy to bring data/AI ideas to life through a platform for prototyping web applications.
Daniel Miller
Sep 24
Airbnb Brandometer: Powering Brand Perception Measurement on Social Media Data with AI
Airbnb Brandometer: Powering Brand Perception Measurement on Social Media Data with AI
Tiantian Zhang
Apr 26
Chronon, Airbnb’s ML Feature Platform, Is Now Open Source
Chronon, Airbnb’s ML Feature Platform, Is Now Open Source
A feature platform that offers observability and management tools, allows ML practitioners to use a variety of data sources, while handling…
Varant Zanoyan
Apr 8
Airbnb at KDD 2023
Airbnb at KDD 2023
KDD (Knowledge and Data Mining) is a flagship conference in data science research. Hosted annually by a special interest group of the…
Alex Deng
Dec 22, 2023
Wisdom of Unstructured Data: Building Airbnb’s Listing Knowledge from Big Text Data
Wisdom of Unstructured Data: Building Airbnb’s Listing Knowledge from Big Text Data
How Airbnb leverages ML/NLP to extract useful information about listings from unstructured text data to power personalized experiences for…
Hongwei Harvey Li
Nov 15, 2023
Chronon — A Declarative Feature Engineering Framework
Chronon — A Declarative Feature Engineering Framework
A framework for developing production grade features for machine learning models. The purpose of the blog is to provide an overview of…
Nikhil Simha
Jul 11, 2023
Prioritizing Home Attributes Based on Guest Interest
Prioritizing Home Attributes Based on Guest Interest
How Airbnb leverages ML to derive guest interest from unstructured text data and provide personalized recommendations to Hosts
Joy Jing
Feb 16, 2023
Learning To Rank Diversely
Learning To Rank Diversely
by Malay Haldar, Liwei He & Moose Abdool
Malay Haldar
Jan 30, 2023
When a Picture Is Worth More Than Words
When a Picture Is Worth More Than Words
How Airbnb uses visual attributes to enhance the Guest and Host experience
Yuanpei Cao
Dec 8, 2022
How AI Text Generation Models Are Reshaping Customer Support at Airbnb
How AI Text Generation Models Are Reshaping Customer Support at Airbnb
Leveraging text generation models to build more effective, scalable customer support products.
Gavin Li
Nov 23, 2022
Building Airbnb Categories with ML and Human-in-the-Loop
Building Airbnb Categories with ML and Human-in-the-Loop
Airbnb Categories Blog Series — Part I
Mihajlo Grbovic
Nov 21, 2022
T-LEAF: Taxonomy Learning and EvaluAtion Framework
T-LEAF: Taxonomy Learning and EvaluAtion Framework
How we applied qualitative learning, human labeling and machine learning to iteratively develop Airbnb’s Community Support Taxonomy.
Cen(Mia) Zhao
Jun 23, 2022
Intelligent Automation Platform: Empowering Conversational AI and Beyond at Airbnb
Intelligent Automation Platform: Empowering Conversational AI and Beyond at Airbnb
How Intelligent Automation Platform supports conversational AI and agent-automation to improve the Airbnb customer experience
Zhiheng Xu
Jan 11, 2022
Task-Oriented Conversational AI in Airbnb Customer Support
Task-Oriented Conversational AI in Airbnb Customer Support
How Airbnb is powering automated support to enhance the host and guest experience
Gavin Li
Aug 10, 2021
Using Sentiment Score to Assess Customer Service Quality
Using Sentiment Score to Assess Customer Service Quality
How AI-based Sentiment Models Complement Net Promoter Score
Shuai Shao (Shawn)
Jul 26, 2021
WIDeText: A Multimodal Deep Learning Framework
WIDeText: A Multimodal Deep Learning Framework
How we designed a multimodal deep learning framework for quick product development.
Wayne Zhang
Dec 8, 2020
Improving Deep Learning for Ranking Stays at Airbnb
Improving Deep Learning for Ranking Stays at Airbnb
A practical case study of how to iterate on DNNs
Malay Haldar
Oct 6, 2020
Using Chatbots to Provide Faster COVID-19 Community Support
Using Chatbots to Provide Faster COVID-19 Community Support
How we architected Helpbot, our customer support chatbot powered by machine learning.
Chris Zhu
Jul 15, 2020
Amenity Detection and Beyond — New Frontiers of Computer Vision at Airbnb
Amenity Detection and Beyond — New Frontiers of Computer Vision at Airbnb
Build highly customized AI technologies into home-sharing products and help our guests belong anywhere.
Shijing Yao
Jul 16, 2019
Machine Learning-Powered Search Ranking of Airbnb Experiences
Machine Learning-Powered Search Ranking of Airbnb Experiences
How we built and iterated on a machine learning Search Ranking platform for a new two-sided marketplace and how we helped it grow.
Mihajlo Grbovic
Feb 5, 2019
Contextualizing Airbnb by Building Knowledge Graph
Contextualizing Airbnb by Building Knowledge Graph
Introducing how we built the Knowledge Graph at Airbnb, which helped us categorize our inventories and deliver contexts to people.
Xiaoya Wei
Jan 29, 2019
Discovering and Classifying In-app Message Intent at Airbnb
Discovering and Classifying In-app Message Intent at Airbnb
Conversational AI is inspiring us to rethink the customer experience on our platform.
Michelle (Guqian) Du
Jan 22, 2019
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