Maplebear Inc.

Sharath Rao

Shishir Kumar Prasad

Camille Van Horne

Jeremy Stanley

Mingzhe Zhuang

Maksim Golivkin

Riddhima Sejpal

Djordje Gluhovic

Shrikar Archak

Christopher Rudnick

Chris Jenkins

Ben Knight

An online concierge system may determine recommended search terms for a user. The online concierge system may receive a request from a user to view a user interface configured to receive a search query. The online concierge system retrieves long-term activity data including previous search terms entered by the user while searching for items to add to an online shopping cart. For each previous search term, the online concierge system retrieves categorical search terms corresponding to one or more categories to which the previous search term was mapped. The online concierge system determines a set of nearby categorical search terms and sends, for display via a client device, the set of nearby categorical search terms as recommended search terms.

Method, non-transitory computer-readable medium, and system for determining recommended search terms for a user of an online concierge system

A method for predicting inventory availability, involving receiving a delivery order including a plurality of items and a delivery location, and identifying a warehouse for picking the plurality of items. The method retrieves a machine-learned model that predicts a probability that an item is available at the warehouse. The machine-learned model is trained, using machine learning, based in part on a plurality of datasets. The plurality of datasets include data describing items included in previous delivery orders, whether each item in each previous delivery order was picked, a warehouse associated with each previous delivery order, and a plurality of characteristics associated with each of the items. The method predicts the probability that one of the plurality of items in the delivery order is available at the warehouse, and generates an instruction to a picker based on the probability. An instruction is transmitted to a mobile device of the picker.

Predictive inventory availability

In an online concierge system, a customer adds items to an online shopping cart. The online concierge system determines key ingredients from the items in the online shopping cart by mapping the items to generic items and removing non-ingredient items and staple items. The online concierge system retrieves recipes including at least one of the key ingredients. The online concierge system determines complementary ingredients based on the other ingredients in the recipes and calculates co-occurrence scores for the complementary ingredients. Using the co-occurrence scores, the online concierge system ranks the complementary ingredients and sends for display a subset of the complementary ingredients as recommended items.

Determining recommended items for a shopping list

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Sharath Rao