How we addressed the cold-start problem for Airbnb’s natural language search by jointly generating synthetic training data — queries and relevance labels — from de-identified booking and search signals.
How Airbnb uses proximity signals to personalize without relying on individual user history.
2025 was a big year for research at Airbnb, as we made significant progress toward our mission to use AI, data science, and machine learning to become the best travel and living platform.
A deep dive on the framework that lets us identify the most valuable listings for our guests.
