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公开(公告)号:US20250005381A1
公开(公告)日:2025-01-02
申请号:US18217356
申请日:2023-06-30
Applicant: Maplebear Inc. (dba Instacart)
Inventor: Peng Qi , Cheng Jia , Xiyu Wang , Qiao Jiang , Sharad Gupta , David Pal , Joseph Haraldson , Zhenbang Chen
IPC: G06N5/022
Abstract: An online system manages presentation of content items in various presentation contexts such as when the users are browsing pages or when the users have entered a search query. The online system trains a single unified machine learning model that predicts one or more likelihoods of a target event associated with presentation of a content item in the different presentation contexts. The learned model is applied to a set of candidate content items associated with a presentation opportunity in a specific context. Features that are inapplicable to the specific context may be masked when applying the model. The online system may select between the candidate content items based on the predicted likelihoods using the model trained across the multiple different contexts, such that the prediction for one context may be based in part on learned outcomes in other related contexts.
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公开(公告)号:US20230162038A1
公开(公告)日:2023-05-25
申请号:US17534184
申请日:2021-11-23
Applicant: Maplebear Inc. (dba Instacart)
Inventor: Peng Qi , Zhenbang Chen
CPC classification number: G06N3/084 , G06N3/04 , G06Q30/0202
Abstract: An online system uses a trained model predicting likelihoods of a user performing a specific interaction with items to order or to rank items for display to the user. The online system trains the model using interactions by users with items displayed by the online system. However, selection, popularity, and position from display of the items affects the model during training. To improve the model, the online system further trains the model using additional training data obtained from displaying items to users in different orders. The further training is done on a limited portion of the model, such as a limited number of layers of the model, to improve the model performance while reducing an amount of additional data to acquire to further train the model.
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公开(公告)号:US20220414747A1
公开(公告)日:2022-12-29
申请号:US17358081
申请日:2021-06-25
Applicant: Maplebear Inc.(dba Instacart)
Inventor: Changyao Chen , Peng Qi , Weian Sheng , Chuanwei Ruan , Qiao Jiang
Abstract: An online concierge system enables users to create lists of items and generate a link allowing other receiving users to access a list by selecting the link. When a receiving user selects the link, the online concierge system generates a user-specific list from the original list. The user-specific list includes user-specific items selected for the receiving user that replace items in the original list based on item availability to the receiving user, receiving user preferences, and other receiving user-specific criteria. The receiving user can then view the user-specific items in the user-specific list via an interface allowing the user-specific items in the user-specific list to be included in an order in a single interaction.
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公开(公告)号:US20230068634A1
公开(公告)日:2023-03-02
申请号:US17462767
申请日:2021-08-31
Applicant: Maplebear Inc. (dba Instacart)
Inventor: Chuanwei Ruan , Peng Qi , Weian Sheng , Changyao Chen , Qiao Jiang
IPC: G06Q30/06 , G16H20/60 , G06Q50/28 , G06F16/9535 , G06N20/00
Abstract: An online concierge system allows a user to provide a nutritional goal and uses the nutritional goal as a constraint for selecting candidate orders to display to the user. From prior orders from the user, the online concierge system generates order templates including combinations of generic item descriptions corresponding to items previously included in orders from the user. From the order templates, the online concierge system generates candidate orders including specific items from a warehouse corresponding to the generic item descriptions. The online concierge system selects a set of the candidate orders that each include specific items with combined nutritional information satisfying the user's nutritional goal. Based on probabilities of the user purchasing different candidate orders of the set, the online concierge system selects one or more candidate orders of the set for display to the user.
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公开(公告)号:US20220398605A1
公开(公告)日:2022-12-15
申请号:US17343026
申请日:2021-06-09
Applicant: Maplebear, Inc.(dba Instacart)
Inventor: Changyao Chen , Peng Qi , Weian Sheng
Abstract: An online concierge system trains a user interaction model to predict a probability of a user performing an interaction after one or more content items are displayed to the user. This provides a measure of an effect of displaying content items to the user on the user performing one or more interactions. The user interaction model is trained from displaying content items to certain users of the online concierge system and withholding display of the content items to other users of the online concierge system. To train the user interaction model, the user interaction model is applied to labeled examples identifying a user and value based on interactions the user performed after one or more content items were displayed to the user and interactions the user performed when one or more content items were not used.
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公开(公告)号:US20230196389A1
公开(公告)日:2023-06-22
申请号:US18112438
申请日:2023-02-21
Applicant: Maplebear Inc. (dba Instacart)
Inventor: Changyao Chen , Peng Qi , Weian Sheng
IPC: G06Q30/0201 , G06N3/084 , G06N3/047
CPC classification number: G06Q30/0201 , G06N3/084 , G06Q30/0206 , G06N3/047
Abstract: An online concierge system trains a user interaction model to predict a probability of a user performing an interaction after one or more content items are displayed to the user. This provides a measure of an effect of displaying content items to the user on the user performing one or more interactions. The user interaction model is trained from displaying content items to certain users of the online concierge system and withholding display of the content items to other users of the online concierge system. To train the user interaction model, the user interaction model is applied to labeled examples identifying a user and value based on interactions the user performed after one or more content items were displayed to the user and interactions the user performed when one or more content items were not used.
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公开(公告)号:US20220358560A1
公开(公告)日:2022-11-10
申请号:US17308993
申请日:2021-05-05
Applicant: Maplebear, Inc.(dba Instacart)
Inventor: Weian Sheng , Peng Qi , Changyao Chen
Abstract: An online concierge system maintains a taxonomy associating one or more specific items offered by a warehouse with a generic item description. When the online concierge system receives a generic item description from a user for inclusion in an order, the online concierge system uses the taxonomy to select a set of items associated with the generic item description. Based on probabilities of the user purchasing various items of the set, the online concierge system selects an item of the set for inclusion in the order For example, the online concierge system selects an item of the set for which the user has a maximum probability of being purchased. Subsequently, the online concierge system displays an interface for the user that is prepopulated with information identifying the selected item of the set.
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公开(公告)号:US20220335493A1
公开(公告)日:2022-10-20
申请号:US17232651
申请日:2021-04-16
Applicant: Maplebear, Inc.(dba Instacart)
Inventor: Weian Sheng , Peng Qi , Changyao Chen
Abstract: An online concierge system maintains historical orders received from a user that include one or more items. For items included in one more historical orders, the online concierge system determines an interval between orders including an item, providing an indication of a frequency with which the user orders the item. When the online concierge system receives a request to create an order from the user, in response to an amount of time between a most recently received order including the item and a time when the request was received is within a threshold duration of the interval between orders including the item, the online concierge system selects an item from a category including the item. The selected item may be the item or an alternative item in the category. Subsequently, the online concierge system displays an interface for the user that is prepopulated with information identifying the selected item.
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公开(公告)号:US20250095055A1
公开(公告)日:2025-03-20
申请号:US18965960
申请日:2024-12-02
Applicant: Maplebear Inc. (dba Instacart)
Inventor: Jeffrey Bernard Arnold , Rob Donnelly , Sumit Garg , Jonathan Gu , Bill Lundberg , David Pal , Sharath Rao Karikurve , Peng Qi
IPC: G06Q30/0601 , G06F9/451 , G06Q30/02
Abstract: An online concierge system includes sponsored content items in an interface including different slots for displaying content items. A sponsored content item may be displayed in a single slot or in multiple adjacent slots. The online concierge system determines a content score for various sponsored content items indicating a likelihood of a user interacting with a sponsored content item and a position bias for slots in the interface indicating a likelihood of the user interacting with a slot independent of content in the slot. Position biases are different dependent on a number of slots in which a content item is displayed. The online concierge system generates a graph identifying potential placements of sponsored content items in slots by selecting content items in an order according to their content scores. Sponsored content items are positioned in slots according to a path through the graph that has the highest overall expected value.
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公开(公告)号:US20240005377A1
公开(公告)日:2024-01-04
申请号:US17855377
申请日:2022-06-30
Applicant: Maplebear Inc. (dba Instacart)
Inventor: Zhenbang Chen , Jingying Zhou , Peng Qi
CPC classification number: G06Q30/0631 , G06Q30/0222 , G06Q30/0205
Abstract: An online system trains a machine-learned lift prediction model configured as a neural network. The machine-learned lift prediction model can be used during the inference process to determine lift predictions for users and items associated with the online system. By configuring the lift prediction model as a neural network, the lift prediction model can capture and process information from users and items in various formats and more flexibly model users and items compared to existing methods. Moreover, the lift prediction model includes at least a first portion for generating control predictions and a second portion for generating treatment predictions, where the first portion and the second portion share a subset of parameters. The shared subset of parameters can capture information important for generating both control and treatment predictions even when the training data for a control group of users might be significantly smaller than that of the treatment group.
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