SIFT: Search Intent-to-Filter Transformer for Multi-Task Personalized Filter Ranking at Airbnb

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arXiv:2610.07810v1 Announce Type: new 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