SEP 17, 2026

Personalizing Airbnb search by learning from the guest journey

How we built a Transformer-based sequence model that encodes years of guest behavior to surface the right listings at the right time.By: Daochen Zha, Chun How...

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Beyond the Model: Engineering AI Infra with Scientific Judgement

How Airbnb’s agent harness transforms unstructured data exploration by encoding scientific methodology into scalable, reproducible, and audit-ready...

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Project Lighthouse — Part 3: Introducing project-lighthouse-anonymize

Project Lighthouse — Part 3: Introducing project-lighthouse-anonymizeThe data in Project Lighthouse is powered by privacy-preserving anonymization code. We’ve...

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How we knew COVID was over (and what our models had to unlearn)

When we retrain, when we rebuild, and when we leave a model alone.By: Harrison KatzA forecast that carries weightThe Forecasting Data Science team at Airbnb...

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