Applying Text Generation Models to Scalable Customer Support at Airbnb
Airbnb replaced its XLM‑RoBERTa ranking with an MT5 encoder‑decoder for content recommendation, built a real‑time generative assistant for reply suggestions and intent detection, and deployed a T5‑based paraphrase chatbot, showing that large‑scale pre‑trained transformers improve relevance, agent efficiency, and user satisfaction.