arXiv Machine Learning

Proximity Features: Privacy-Compliant Cold-Start Personalization at Airbnb

arXiv:2607. 12246v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personalization in two-sided marketplaces relies heavily on user-level features, yet for platforms with infrequent, high-consideration purchases, a large fraction of users lack sufficient history for effective recommendation, spanning both paid and organic channels.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 17

JourneyFormer: Encoding Airbnb Guest Journey with Sequence Modeling

Sequence modeling has become increasingly popular in recommendation and ranking algorithms, owing to its capacity to model users' historical behaviors and infer user intentions. Despite its theoretical simplicity, the practical deployment of a sequence model in production is non-trivial due to complexity of the sequence and sparse labels.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 18

JourneyFormer: Encoding Airbnb Guest Journey with Sequence Modeling

arXiv:2606. 19108v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sequence modeling has become increasingly popular in recommendation and ranking algorithms, owing to its capacity to model users' historical behaviors and infer user intentions.

By Daochen Zha, Chun How Tan, Xin Liu, Bin Xu, Han Zhao, Xiaowei Liu, Tracy Yu, Hui Gao, Huiji Gao, Liwei He, Stephanie Moyerman, Sanjeev Katariya
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 31

Personalized and Multi-View Representation for Federated Cold-Start Recommendation

The paper introduces PMFRec, a federated cold-start recommendation framework that addresses personalization, compositionality, and communication inefficiencies. PMFRec generates user-specific item representations from attribute features, employs a global multi-view encoder with adaptive gating and orthogonality to capture complementary semantics, and fuses collaborative and attribute knowledge into a single exchanged representation. Experiments on real-world datasets demonstrate that PMFRec outperforms strong baselines in cold-item recommendation while improving user-level fairness, warm-scenario adaptability, and robustness under Local Differential Privacy.

By Jaehyung Lim, Wonbin Kweon, Woojoo Kim, Junyoung Kim, Dongha Kim, Hwanjo Yu
arXiv AI
Aug 7

LUNAR: Benchmarking Personalized Large Language Models on UNiversal User BehAvioR Logs

arXiv:2608. 05246v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing personalized LLM benchmarks primarily rely on textual personas or isolated behavioral signals, providing limited evaluation of cross-domain behavioral personalization, where responses must be grounded in heterogeneous daily-life activities.

By Jiahao Zhang, Yongzhi Tong, Zelin Fu, Pengde Zhao, Yanmei Jiang, Jiang Feng, Min Yang
arXiv AI
Sep 7

Beyond Co-purchase Relation: Evolution of Complementary Recommendations at Allegro

The paper introduces AlleCompanion, a large‑scale retrieval framework for complementary product recommendations at Allegro.com. It addresses the challenge of noisy co‑purchase data by combining data‑level filtering, a category‑constrained Two Tower architecture, and a multi‑source Complementary Categories Mapping (ComCat) that incorporates expert rules, human feedback, LLM reasoning, and statistical mining. Experiments show that these explicit category constraints and neural models effectively reduce noise, improving recommendation relevance and driving significant GMV growth for both organic discovery and sponsored placements.

By Aleksandra Osowska-Kurczab, Klaudia Nazarko, Eli\v{s}ka Kosturov\'a, Lidia Wojciechowska, Micha{\l} Bie\'n
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Sep 4

Beyond Co-purchase Relation: Evolution of Complementary Recommendations at Allegro

The paper introduces AlleCompanion, a large‑scale retrieval framework used by Allegro.com to improve complementary product recommendations. It tackles the problem of noisy co‑purchase data by applying data‑level filtering, a category‑constrained Two Tower architecture, and a Category Adapter that limits candidates to logically complementary categories. The system also incorporates a multi‑source Complementary Categories Mapping (ComCat) that blends expert rules, human feedback, LLM reasoning, and statistical mining to refine recommendations, resulting in higher GMV for organic discovery and increased revenue from sponsored placements.