# Bad Influence story: Meta explains Intelligent Delivery, its ML system for allocating ad-ranking compute

Active · 1 article · 1 source · First reported 11-11 12:00. Times are ET.
Story page: https://badinfluence.news/story/d7cb90f3-f4ed-4664-a80e-477cb278980a

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Latest update (11-11 12:00): Meta explains how Intelligent Delivery allocates compute for ads ranking

Overview: Meta says Intelligent Delivery is an ML-driven system that allocates compute across its ads serving stack and has contributed about a 10% ranking performance gain since 2017. Meta's engineering blog describes its approach: ML models that predict the marginal utility of compute, multi-layered mechanisms that move resources across the system, and agentic AI that detects and responds to system shifts.

The system uses the Resource Core Model, a 6B sparse and 20M dense parameter model that runs before candidate retrieval. Meta says it predicts which ad requests benefit most from additional compute.

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1. 11-11 12:00 · Engineering at Meta (from the company) · [Meta explains how Intelligent Delivery allocates compute for ads ranking](https://badinfluence.news/items/oyc5454banw9uh9kuwvv0pjtp)
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