AirbnbDifficulty: Advanced
The guest journey, updated in real time: extending Airbnb’s sequence recommender with Chronon
Airbnb enhanced their recommendation engine by integrating Chronon to serve freshly computed features that update in real time, improving personalization accuracy.
Interview angle
How would you design a real-time feature pipeline for personalized recommendations at scale?
- Failure / topic
Stale features in ML systems leading to less accurate personalized recommendations
- Source
- medium.com