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Key contributors: Prithvi Srinivasan and Shishir Kumar Prasad Introduction Selling groceries online has a fundamental challenge: customers can’t pick up and examine products like they would in-store. This is especially true for prepared foods, butcher...

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Author: Jeff Wu Key Contributors : Lily Sierra, Nour Alkhatib, Steven Gross, Jacquelene Obeid, Kyle Swint, Monta Shen, Gary Song, Riddhima Sejpal, Jatin Jain, Shishir Kumar Prasad, Ayesha Saleem Introduction Millions of people rely on...

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Authors: Ankit Mittal, Vinesh Gudla, Guanghua Shu, Akshay Nair, Tejaswi Tenneti, Andrew Tanner In a previous blog post “ Improving search at Instacart using hybrid recall ”, we shared our progress on adaptively combining traditional...

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Author: Ben Bernard The universe of the current Large Language Models (LLMs) engineering is electrifying, to say the least. The industry has been on fire with change since the launch of ChatGPT in November of...

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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...