arxivcs.LGcs.IR2026-07-10
Serving the Long Tail: Training-Free LLM Candidate Generation for Vacation Rental Marketplaces
Syed Mohammed Arshad Zaidi, Eric Rincon, Shayan Hassantabar
Vacation rental marketplaces face a structural imbalance on the supply side: a small fraction of properties receive most user interactions, while the long tail of new, niche, and seasonal listings generates too little behavioral signal for collaborative filtering to serve effecti…