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Airbnb
The guest journey, updated in real time: extending Airbnb’s sequence recommender with Chronon
Airbnb’s guest sequence recommender previously refreshed Transformer-based embeddings in a daily batch, leaving activity from earlier the same day unavailable until the following run and creating up to nearly two days of staleness. To close this gap, Airbnb added Push Mode, which emits notifications when streaming feature values commit, and Near-real-time Model Transform, which invokes the deployed sequence encoder inside that streaming pipeline. Each page view or search is merged with the guest’s long-term and short-term sequence data, triggers inference, and writes a fresh embedding to the same low-latency store used by batch serving. The resulting system typically updates embeddings in under a minute, often within 10–30 seconds, improved offline NDCG by 1.67%, and increased uncancelled bookings by approximately one-third of a percent in online A/B tests.

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1 post about Chronon. Every summary links to the original.

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Airbnb
The guest journey, updated in real time: extending Airbnb’s sequence recommender with Chronon
Airbnb’s guest sequence recommender previously refreshed Transformer-based embeddings in a daily batch, leaving activity from earlier the same day unavailable until the following run and creating up to nearly two days of staleness. To close this gap, Airbnb added Push Mode, which emits notifications when streaming feature values commit, and Near-real-time Model Transform, which invokes the deployed sequence encoder inside that streaming pipeline. Each page view or search is merged with the guest’s long-term and short-term sequence data, triggers inference, and writes a fresh embedding to the same low-latency store used by batch serving. The resulting system typically updates embeddings in under a minute, often within 10–30 seconds, improved offline NDCG by 1.67%, and increased uncancelled bookings by approximately one-third of a percent in online A/B tests.

The best engineering reads, once a week.