https://www.amazon.science/blog/using-learning-to-rank-to-precisely-locate-where-to-deliver-packages
Using learning-to-rank to precisely locate where to deliver packages
Models adapted from information retrieval deal well with noisy GPS input and can leverage map information.
By George Forman
September 15, 2021
“For delivery drivers, finding the doorstep where a package should be dropped off can be surprisingly hard…. I adapt an idea from information retrieval — learning-to-rank — to the problem of predicting the coordinates of a delivery location from past GPS data.”