Airbnb at KDD 2024 Note

Airbnb at KDD 2024

Airbnb had a significant presence at the 2024 KDD conference in Barcelona, Spain, with three full ADS track papers, one workshop, and seven workshop papers and invited talks accepted into the main conference proceedings. The topics of the work spanned Deep Learning & Search Ranking, Online Experimentation & Measurement, and Two-sided Marketplaces. The company's contributions to the workshop on Two-sided Marketplace Optimization discussed the evolution of content ranking, recommendation systems, and data mining in solving for producers and consumers on these platforms. Airbnb's work on guest intention modeling for personalization uses a deep learning approach to predict travel plans and produces multiple user intent signals. The company also presented a paper on guest demand understanding, combining economic modeling with causal inference techniques to estimate price sensitivity among guest segments.