Learning to Bundle Proactively for On-Demand Meal Delivery

On-demand meal delivery (ODMD) platforms such as DoorDash and Ele.me have experienced explosive growth in recent years. Effective logistics optimization strategies that could guarantee high service standards with controlled costs are crucial for the long-term sustainability of these platforms, and yet are also non-trivial due to the nature of ODMD operations. In particular, most of the orders are not known until they are placed by the customers, and any dispatching policy that only considers known requests would risk making myopic decisions in such a setting.