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 Tan , Xin Liu , Bin Xu , Han Zhao , Xiaowei Liu , Jun Shi , Tracy Yu , Hui Gao , Huiji Gao , Liwei He , Michael Kinoti , Stephanie Moyerman , and Sanjeev Katariya Introduction Planning a trip on Airbnb rarely happens in a single session. A…