Tech & Innovation

Tech & Innovation

How we developed a unified marketplace balancing engine with machine learning and optimization. Written by Trace Levinson , Senior Machine Learning Engineer. The Instacart Marketplace team is deeply focused on producing both timely, high-quality deliveries...

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Authors: Cheng Jia , Peng Qi , Joseph Haraldson , Adway Dhillon , Qiao Jiang , Sharath Rao Introduction Instacart Ads and Ranking Models At Instacart Ads, our focus lies in delivering the utmost relevance...

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Authors: Rajpal Paryani , Han Li , Sahil Khanna , Walter Tuholski Background Griffin is Instacart’s Machine Learning (ML) platform, designed to enhance and standardize the process of developing and deploying ML applications. It significantly...

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Authors: Han Li , Sahil Khanna , Jocelyn De La Rosa , Moping Dou , Sharad Gupta , Chenyang Yu and Rajpal Paryani Background About a year ago, we introduced the first version of Griffin,...

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Tilman Drerup , Levi Boxell, and Robert Fletcher Tech firms are increasingly choosing to hire graduates from PhD programs in economics [ 1 , 2 , 3 ]. In this blog post, we present the...

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By Zain Adil, Kevin Lei and Ada Cohen Over the past few months, we’ve been building an internal AI assistant powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 models called Ava. Ava has seen accelerated adoption at...

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By Michael Prescott This blog post is the last segment in a three-part series that outlines our innovative approach to overcoming inventory challenges, delving into the application of product design, machine learning, and engineering technology....

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By James Zheng At Instacart, datasets are transformed for use in analytics, experimentation, machine learning, and retailer reporting. We use these datasets to make key business decisions that provide better experiences for our customers and...

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By Nate Kupp Data is an integral part of how we do business at Instacart: for informing decisions, providing insights into how our users interact with the product, supporting ML/AI use, and much more. Over...