Building Airbnb Categories with ML & Human in the Loop

Building Airbnb Categories with ML & Human in the Loop

摘要

Airbnb 2022 release introduced Categories, a browse focused product that allows the user to seek inspiration by browsing collections of homes revolving around a common theme, such as Lakefront, Countryside, Golf, Desert, National Parks, Surfing, etc. In Part I of our Categories Blog Series we covered the high level approach to creating Categories and showcasing them in the product. In this Part II we will describe the ML Categorization work in more detail.

Throughout the post we use the Lakefront category as a running example to showcase the ML-powered category development process. Similar process was applied for other categories, with category specific nuances. For example, some categories rely more on points of interests, while others more on structured listing signals, image data, etc.