arXiv：cs.LG· Shashank Dabriwal, Tanya Piplani, Hao Li, Yiwei Wang, Ashish Jain, Kedar Bellare, Stephanie Moyerman·· 4 小时前AI 评分36
Airbnb 的 SIFT：面向多任务个性化筛选排序的搜索意图到筛选 Transformer
SIFT: Search Intent-to-Filter Transformer for Multi-Task Personalized Filter Ranking at Airbnb
AI 导读
Airbnb 提出 SIFT（Search Intent-to-Filter Transformer）排序模型，直接从未经处理的用户行为序列中学习偏好，替代 ETL 流水线生成的人工特征。
正文
Abstract:Search filters help guests navigate vast catalogs in two-sided marketplaces like Airbnb, and recommending the right filters can meaningfully lift booking conversion. Many such production filter-ranking systems, however, represent the guest through hand-engineered, pre-aggregated features generated by ETL pipelines. This makes it expensive to maintain and difficult to extend for new filter types or contextual dimensions (trip length, group size). We present SIFT (Search Intent-to-Filter Transformer), a ranking model built on transformers that learns guest preferences directly from raw behavioral sequences. SIFT replaces manual feature engineering with a unified guest representation that feeds multiple prediction tasks, including booking likelihood, filter engagement, and ordinal capacity thresholds (e.g., 2+ bedrooms) -- a general framework for filter ranking in two-sided marketplaces that accommodates both boolean and numeric-range filter types. Extending SIFT to new filters requires only adding a new head, not a new feature pipeline. To keep serving fast, this guest representation is computed offline on a daily cadence rather than at request time. Offline, SIFT improves booking and amenity-engagement PR-AUC by +51.9% and +62.8% respectively over the production baseline. In online A/B testing, SIFT increased engagement with recommended filters by +20.0%, overall filter usage among searchers by +0.72%, and usage of the newly-supported bedroom, bathroom, and bed filters by +3.9%, +10.7%, and +0.52% respectively. Demonstrating the system's extensibility, we rapidly integrated a novel hotel-intent filter using the same shared representation, driving a +3.8% lift in uncancelled hotel bookings and a +0.76% lift in overall marketplace bookings. SIFT is now fully deployed in production, serving scalable personalization to millions of guests.
| Comments: | 9 pages, 5 figures, 6 tables. Accepted at GRAIL 2026: Workshop on Generative, Retrieval-augmented, and Agentic Intelligence for Personalization, co-located with CIKM 2026, Rome, Italy |
| Subjects: | Machine Learning (cs.LG) |
| ACM classes: | H.3.3; I.2.6; H.3.5 |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2610.07810 [cs.LG] |
| (or arXiv:2610.07810v1 [cs.LG] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.07810 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) |
Submission history
From: Shashank Dabriwal [view email]
[v1]
Tue, 6 Oct 2026 06:05:45 UTC (1,901 KB)
来源：arXiv：cs.LG · arxiv.org