Homepage
Open in app
Sign in
Get started
Building at Instacart
Engineering | Product | Data Science
Eng
Data Science
Machine Learning
Careers
Follow
Following
How Instacart Uses Machine Learning to Suggest Replacements for Out-of-Stock Products
How Instacart Uses Machine Learning to Suggest Replacements for Out-of-Stock Products
Authors: Ahsaas Bajaj, Shishir Kumar Prasad
Ahsaas Bajaj
Nov 7, 2024
Sequence models for Contextual Recommendations at Instacart
Sequence models for Contextual Recommendations at Instacart
Authors: Pradeep Karuturi, Young Rao, Sharath Rao, Shishir Kumar Prasad Key contributors: Brian Lin, Cheng Jia, Karuna Ahuja, Shrikar…
pradeep karuturi
Oct 23, 2024
Supercharging Discovery in Search with LLMs
Supercharging Discovery in Search with LLMs
Authors: Taesik Na, Yuanzheng Zhu, Vinesh Gudla, Jeff Wu, Tejaswi Tenneti Key contributors: Akshay Nair, Benwen Sun, Chakshu Ahuja, Jesse…
Vinesh Gudla
Sep 25, 2024
Optimizing search relevance at Instacart using hybrid retrieval
Optimizing search relevance at Instacart using hybrid retrieval
Vinesh Gudla, Prakash Putta, Ankit Mittal, Andrew Tanner, Tejaswi Tenneti
Vinesh Gudla
Sep 11, 2024
Using Surrogate Indices to Estimate Long-Run Heterogeneous Treatment Effects of Membership…
Using Surrogate Indices to Estimate Long-Run Heterogeneous Treatment Effects of Membership…
Authors: Levi Boxell, Changyao Chen, Rustin Partow, Mack Sweeney
Levi Boxell
Aug 26, 2024
Data Science Spotlight: Cracking the SQL Interview at Instacart (LLM Edition)
Data Science Spotlight: Cracking the SQL Interview at Instacart (LLM Edition)
By: Anahita Tafvizi, Michael Curran, Monta Shen
Monta Shen
Jul 24, 2024
Enhancing FoodStorm with AI Image Generation
Enhancing FoodStorm with AI Image Generation
Anthony Super
Anthony Super
Jul 2, 2024
Bandits for Marketing Optimization
Bandits for Marketing Optimization
Toban Wiebe, Fang Guo, Rustin Partow, and Tilman Drerup
Tilman Drerup
Jun 26, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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
About tech-at-instacart
Latest Stories
Archive
About Medium
Terms
Privacy
Teams