Airbnb Tech
Research
Research is an integral part of what we do at Airbnb Tech. We’re excited to share how we’re moving the needle.
- Papers
- 54
- Venues
- 12
- Authors
- 141
- Years
- 2018–26
Academic papers
2026
12 papers
EMNLP
KDD Two-Sided Marketplace Optimization Workshop
Published Journals
- A Bayesian Dirichlet autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity model for forecasting currency sharesScienceDirect
- Coupled supply and demand forecasting in platform accommodation marketsScienceDirect
- Directional-shift Dirichlet ARMA models for compositional time series with structural break interventionScienceDirect
- Forecasting the Evolving Composition of Guest Origin Markets in Platform Bookings: A Bayesian Compositional Time-Series Approach Using Airbnb Datamdpi.com
Other Publications
2025
20 papers
EMNLP
KDD
CIKM
MIT CODE
The 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics
Other Publications
- Comparative Analysis and Distributional Fitting of Compositional Lead Time Distributions in Hospitality Booking DataPDF
- Lead times in flux: Analyzing Airbnb booking dynamics during global UpheavalsScienceDirect
- Slomads Rising: Structural Shifts in U.S. Airbnb Stay Lengths During and After the Pandemicmdpi.com
- Quality Externalities on Platforms: The Case of AirbnbPDF
- Two-Part Forecasting for Time-Shifted MetricsarXiv
- Sensitivity Analysis of Priors in the Bayesian Dirichlet Auto-Regressive Moving Average Modelmdpi.com
2024
11 papers
KDD
- Can Language Models Accelerate Prototyping for Non-Language Data? Classification & Summarization of Activity Logs as TextPDF
- Learning to Rank for Maps at AirbnbACM
- Learning and Applying Airbnb Listing Embeddings in Two-Sided MarketplacePDF
- Metric Decomposition in A/B TestsACM
- Multi-objective Learning to Rank by Model DistillationACM
- Predicting Potential Customer Support Needs and Optimizing Search Ranking in a Two-Sided MarketplacePDF
- Understanding Guest Preferences and Optimizing Two-sided MarketplacesPDF
- Understanding Product Quality with Unstructured Data: An Application of LLMs and Embeddings at AirbnbPDF
- Understanding User Booking Intent at AirbnbPDF
CIKM
2023
4 papers
KDD
2022
1 paper
2021
2 papers
2020
2 papers
2019
1 paper
2018
1 paper
From the blog
Academic Publications & Airbnb Tech: 2025 Year in Review
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.
Read the review