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Airbnb users in the early trip planning stage often lack a clear travel destination, making it difficult to provide relevant recommendations and convert exploratory browsing into bookings.
Airbnb needed to advance its AI, data science, and machine learning capabilities across multiple domains (NLP, optimization, measurement science) to improve its travel and living platform, requiring solutions to challenges in search ranking, recommendation, experimentation, and large-scale data processing.