Meituan Technology Team

Jul 13, 2023 · Artificial Intelligence

Intelligent Companion Search Guidance for Meituan Waimai: Challenges, Solutions, and Future Directions

Meituan’s delivery team created an intelligent, real‑time companion‑type search guidance system for its waimai platform—combining a smart in‑box word refresh triggered by edge‑intelligence intent signals and a unified multi‑scenario query‑recommendation model with self‑supervised pre‑training and multi‑objective optimization—delivering over 1 % DAU growth, 1.7 % UV_RPM increase, and up to 187 % CTR lifts while outlining future extensions to more pages and large‑model embeddings.