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Applying Deep Learning To Airbnb Search — mentioned by BillFranklin

Thu, 01 Apr 2021 23:09:53 GMT

Interesting article! Shopify's approach is cool, it's interesting they're using Kafka to generate datasets. I wonder if the explicit human rankings will get stale (and also be hugely outweighted by implicit judgements in the training data). The real-time feedback aspect sounds cool, I wonder if it's just for metrics or also for re-training in real-time. I worked on a Learning To Rank implementation a year or so ago. What struck me then (and now reading about Shopify's implementation) is that the approach is often very similar across sites, but the implementation is usually rather tailored.…

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Applying Deep Learning To Airbnb Search — mentioned by huac

Wed, 12 Feb 2020 00:50:34 GMT

I can absolutely assure you that FB and G's ad targeting algorithms are more complex and significantly more performant than "cluster and sort by click rate per keyword." For one, you rank ads on an eCPM basis, which includes bid, but leaving that aside, trust me, just because you don't know how ads systems work, that doesn't mean they're not working. Here's a clear example of ML improving search: voice search. You might not use it, but it's extremely popular in India and other developing markets. "G search has gotten worse as they’ve focused on recency in the index, gotten more tolerant of…

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Applying Deep Learning To Airbnb Search — HN submission

Fri, 09 Nov 2018 19:40:27 GMT

Applying Deep Learning to Airbnb Search [pdf]

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Applying Deep Learning To Airbnb Search — HN submission

Mon, 29 Oct 2018 15:28:40 GMT

Applying Deep Learning to Airbnb Search

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Applying Deep Learning To Airbnb Search — HN submission

Wed, 24 Oct 2018 00:58:31 GMT

Applying Deep Learning to Airbnb Search

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