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Enhancing FoodStorm with AI Image Generation
Enhancing FoodStorm with AI Image Generation
Anthony Super
Anthony Super
Jul 2
Bandits for Marketing Optimization
Bandits for Marketing Optimization
Toban Wiebe, Fang Guo, Rustin Partow, and Tilman Drerup
Tilman Drerup
Jun 26
Unlocking 66% Faster Experiments with Covariate Adjustment: Power Analysis for Clustered Data…
Unlocking 66% Faster Experiments with Covariate Adjustment: Power Analysis for Clustered Data…
Tim Hesterberg and Benjamin Knight
Benjamin Knight
Jun 17
Optimizing at the Edge: Using Regression Discontinuity Designs to Power Decision-Making
Optimizing at the Edge: Using Regression Discontinuity Designs to Power Decision-Making
Levi Boxell, Robert Fletcher, and Tilman Drerup
Tilman Drerup
Apr 15
Instacart Distinguished Speaker Series with Professor Tao Yu
Instacart Distinguished Speaker Series with Professor Tao Yu
For our ongoing Distinguished Speaker Series, Instacart Engineering invites renowned researchers and practitioners to present…
Instacart
Apr 5
Real-time Fraud Detection with Yoda and ClickHouse
Real-time Fraud Detection with Yoda and ClickHouse
Authors: Nick Shieh, Shen Zhu, Xiaobing Xia
Nick Shieh
Mar 18
Distinguished Speaker Series with Ping Li: ML-Enhanced Sparse Vector Search with Privacy Protection
Distinguished Speaker Series with Ping Li: ML-Enhanced Sparse Vector Search with Privacy Protection
Instacart Engineering invites renowned researchers and practitioners to present state-of-the-art work on the technology that lies behind…
Dayle Lyng
Feb 5
Unveiling the Core of Instacart’s Griffin 2.0: A Deep Dive Into The Model Serving Platform
Unveiling the Core of Instacart’s Griffin 2.0: A Deep Dive Into The Model Serving Platform
Authors: Zihan Li Joseph Haraldson Adway Dhillon Keith Lazuka Vaibhav Agarwal James Matthews Sahil Khanna Rajpal Paryani
Zihan Li
Feb 5
Unlocking Efficiency: How Ava Became Our AI Productivity Partner
Unlocking Efficiency: How Ava Became Our AI Productivity Partner
At Instacart, we’re not just using generative AI to develop new features in the Instacart app that will help transform peoples’…
Dayle Lyng
Jan 30
One model to serve them all
One model to serve them all
How Instacart deployed a single Deep Learning pCTR model for multiple surfaces with improved operations and performance along the way
Cheng Jia
Dec 19, 2023
Monte Carlo, Puppetry and Laughter: The Unexpected Joys of Prompt Engineering
Monte Carlo, Puppetry and Laughter: The Unexpected Joys of Prompt Engineering
The universe of the current Large Language Models (LLMs) engineering is electrifying, to say the least. The industry has been on fire with…
Ben Bernard
Dec 11, 2023
Unveiling the Core of Instacart’s Griffin 2.0:
Unveiling the Core of Instacart’s Griffin 2.0:
Authors: Han Li, Sahil Khanna, Jocelyn De La Rosa, Moping Dou, Sharad Gupta, Chenyang Yu and Rajpal Paryani
Han Li
Nov 20, 2023
Introducing Griffin 2.0: Instacart’s Next-Gen ML Platform
Introducing Griffin 2.0: Instacart’s Next-Gen ML Platform
Authors: Rajpal Paryani, Han Li, Sahil Khanna, Walter Tuholski
Rajpal Paryani
Nov 17, 2023
The Economics Team at Instacart
The Economics Team at Instacart
Tilman Drerup, Levi Boxell, and Robert Fletcher
Tilman Drerup
Nov 13, 2023
Scaling Productivity with Ava — Instacart’s Internal AI Assistant
Scaling Productivity with Ava — Instacart’s Internal AI Assistant
Zain Adil, Kevin Lei and Ada Cohen
Zain Adil
Sep 7, 2023
Instacart’s Item Availability Architecture: Solving for scale and consistency.
Instacart’s Item Availability Architecture: Solving for scale and consistency.
Instacart’s Item Availability Architecture: Solving for scale and consistency.
Michael Prescott
Sep 6, 2023
Adopting dbt as the Data Transformation Tool at Instacart
Adopting dbt as the Data Transformation Tool at Instacart
At Instacart, datasets are transformed for use in analytics, experimentation, machine learning, and retailer reporting. We use these…
James Zheng
Aug 17, 2023
The Next Era of Data at Instacart
The Next Era of Data at Instacart
Data is an integral part of how we do business at Instacart: for informing decisions, providing insights into how our users interact with…
Nate Kupp
Aug 16, 2023
Supercharging ML/AI Foundations at Instacart
Supercharging ML/AI Foundations at Instacart
Haixun Wang and Jagannath Putrevu
Haixun Wang
Aug 15, 2023
Zero-Downtime PostgreSQL Cutovers
Zero-Downtime PostgreSQL Cutovers
Authors: Brad Nicholson, Andrew Tanner, Marco Montagna
Brad Nicholson
Jul 17, 2023
How Instacart Modernized the Prediction of Real Time Availability for Hundreds of Millions of Items…
How Instacart Modernized the Prediction of Real Time Availability for Hundreds of Millions of Items…
This is Part 2 of a three-part blog post series in which we outline how we addressed inventory challenges through product, machine…
Jack He
Jul 17, 2023
How Instacart’s item availability evolved over the pandemic
How Instacart’s item availability evolved over the pandemic
This is the first in a three-part blog post series in which we outline how we addressed inventory challenges through product, machine…
Viswa Mani Kiran Peddinti
Jul 10, 2023
How Instacart Measures the True Value of Advertising: The Methodology of Ad Incrementality
How Instacart Measures the True Value of Advertising: The Methodology of Ad Incrementality
Author: Jason Kim
Jason Kim
Jun 30, 2023
Using Contextual Bandit models in large action spaces at Instacart
Using Contextual Bandit models in large action spaces at Instacart
David Vengerov, Vinesh Gudla, Tejaswi Tenneti, Haixun Wang, Kourosh Hakhamaneshi
David Vengerov
Jun 15, 2023
Building a Flink Self-Serve Platform on Kubernetes at Scale
Building a Flink Self-Serve Platform on Kubernetes at Scale
At Instacart, we have a number of data pipelines with low-latency needs that handle over two trillion events a year. Those events help our…
Sylvia Lin
Apr 18, 2023
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