Machine Learning-Powered Search Ranking of Airbnb Experiences

Re:Machine Learning-Powered Search Ranking of Airbnb Experie... by syspec on Saturday October 26, 2019 @06:17PM (#21366606)

I find the searches on Airbnb to be pretty ineffective. Often times I’m trying to find a listing I was previously viewing and it’s nearly impossible to find it (referring only to the cases where I eventually do find it, not when it’s no longer available)

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Re:Machine Learning-Powered Search Ranking of Airbnb Experie... by pheug on Sunday October 27, 2019 @09:31AM (#21369563)

It seems to be working as designed:

"experiences that were clicked but not booked (which we treated as negative labels)"

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Re:Machine Learning-Powered Search Ranking of Airbnb Experie... by moritzmeister on Sunday October 27, 2019 @10:13AM (#21369791)

Too bad that they don't provide any reasoning for this labelling. Also it isn't clear to me over which time span they were looking at individuals to make the label decision, i.e. are they considering sessions or just single clicks with subsequent bookings?

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