Airbnb Engineering & Data Science

How we knew COVID was over (and what our models...

When we retrain, when we rebuild, and when we leave a model alone.

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AI/ML Data

Flexible Authentication: Reimagining authentication for millions of users at Airbnb

Rebuilding login and signup surfaced product insights, not just technical challenges. Here’s how we designed Flexible...

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Problems We're Solving

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Eval-driven development: Lessons from evaluating GenAI at scale

How Airbnb teams build trustworthy Generative AI products by treating evaluation as a first-class engineering discipline;...

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AI/ML

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...

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AI/ML

From weeks to a day: how we made LLM evaluation...

Training an LLM is the easy part. The hard part is designing experiments and evaluations that...

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AI/ML

Scaling beyond one: How Airbnb evolved its data architecture for...

How Airbnb’s data engineers and analytics engineers built a consistent and flexible data modeling framework to...

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Sitar-agent: Building a reliable dynamic configuration sidecar at scale

How Airbnb built a Kubernetes sidecar to deliver dynamic configuration reliably at scale.

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Infrastructure

When history fails you, borrow from geography

How Airbnb used sequential geographic recovery signals and prior propagation to generate reliable corridor-level forecasts when...

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Data
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