The Recommendation System at Lyft

The Recommendation System at Lyft

摘要

Recommendation plays an important role in Lyft’s understanding of its riders and allows for customizing app experiences to better fulfill their needs. At times, recommendations are also leveraged to manage the marketplace, making sure there’s a healthy balance between ride demand and driver supply. This allows ride requests to be fulfilled with more desirable dispatch outcomes such as matching riders with the best driver nearby.

This blog post focuses on the scope and the goals of the recommendation system, and explores some of the most recent changes the Rider team has made to better serve Lyft’s riders.