arXiv Machine Learning July 14, 2026 By Syed Mohammed Arshad Zaidi, Eric Rincon, Shayan Hassantabar

Serving the Long Tail: Training-Free LLM Candidate Generation for Vacation Rental Marketplaces

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arXiv:2607. 09877v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vacation rental marketplaces face a structural imbalance on the supply side: a small fraction of properties receive most user interactions, while the long tail of new, niche, and seasonal listings generates too little behavioral signal for collaborative filtering to serve effectively.

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