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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2023
Maplebear Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Levi Boxell, Brownsburg, IN (US);
Rustin Partow, San Francisco, CA (US);
Maplebear Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A computing system automatically selects treatments for users by generating a propensity vector for a set of treatments and selecting a treatment based on the propensity vector. The propensity vector is determined based on one or more computer models that predict user actions responsive to the treatments and the propensity vector is determined based on the value of a treatment parameter. The treatment parameter is perturbed to determine an adjusted propensity vector. Treatments are applied and outcomes determined with the propensities determined by the current value of the treatment parameter, and counterfactuals for the adjusted treatment vector are determined to evaluate the effect of modifying the treatment parameter. When the perturbed treatment parameter value yields improved results in the counterfactual, the current value is modified to improve performance of the model as a whole without requiring retraining of underlying predictive models.