Open models for recommender systems

A recommender model looks at what people already bought and viewed and suggests what comes next. Unlike a cloud service, an open model learns from your own order history and stays inside your perimeter. Quality here depends less on the model than on how clean your purchase and view data is.

12 open model families in this collection.Updated 22 Sep 2026Open the full catalog with filters
RecommendersGGUF2025–2026

OneRec (OpenOneRec)

Kuaishou · China

An open foundation model for recommendations from a short-video service: browsing and purchase history is fed to the model as a sequence and it predicts the next item or clip. Fine-tuning on your own data is required.

  • A personal feed of products or content
  • Picking the next item from order history
  • Recommendations inside ad slots
Sizes
1.7B, 8B
Hardware
from: Laptop
Commercial use allowedDetails
Recommenders2025

MiniOneRec

MiniOneRec open project · China

A small open generative recommender at 1.5B with published checkpoints and a full training pipeline. Handy as a learning and starter option; a real store needs fine-tuning on its own orders.

  • A quick recommendation prototype on your own data
  • Testing ideas before running a large model
  • Training a team to work with generative recommendations
Sizes
1.5B
Hardware
from: Laptop
Commercial use allowedDetails
Recommenders2024–2025

HLLM

ByteDance · China

A two-level design: one language model reads the item description, the second builds the shopper interest from history. Ready checkpoints at 1B and 7B are published, but they need fine-tuning for your own catalogue.

  • Recommendations from browsing and purchase history
  • Understanding an item from its title and description
  • Suggesting cards for new items with no statistics
Sizes
1B, 7B
Hardware
from: 1 GPU
Commercial use with conditionsDetails
Recommenders2024

Marqo Ecommerce Embeddings

Marqo · Australia

Models that turn a product photo and its title into a single vector: suitable for a similar-items block, image search and matching by description. Built for retail product cards.

  • Similar items by photo and title
  • Catalogue search by image
  • Product search from a shopper phrase
Sizes
203M (B) и 652M (L)
Hardware
from: Laptop
Commercial use allowedDetails
Recommenders2024

beeFormer

Recombee · Czechia

Description encoders trained so that items people actually buy together end up close to each other, not merely items that sound alike. Versions trained on public catalogues are published.

  • A frequently-bought-together block
  • Recommendations for listings with no sales history
  • Moving the model to a new catalogue
Sizes
about 110M (built on all-mpnet-base-v2)
Hardware
from: Laptop
Commercial use with conditionsDetails
RecommendersNot maintained2024

EasyRec (HKUDS)

HKUDS, University of Hong Kong · China

Encoders that put a text portrait of a shopper and a text description of an item into one vector space so they can be matched directly. They help where a new listing has no purchase statistics yet.

  • Recommendations for new items with no statistics
  • Matching by a text portrait of the shopper
  • Reinforcing ordinary recommendations with descriptions
Sizes
three RoBERTa-based versions: small, base, large
Hardware
from: Laptop
Commercial use allowedDetails
RecommendersGGUFNot maintained2024

eCeLLM

Ohio State University (NingLab) · USA

Three language models tuned on a large set of commerce instructions: product selection, answers from the item card, matching listings, review analysis. Your own assortment still needs fine-tuning.

  • Finding a product from a shopper request
  • Answering questions about an item card
  • Matching identical listings across catalogues
Sizes
2.7B – 13B
Hardware
from: Laptop
Commercial use with conditionsDetails
RecommendersNot maintained2024

BLaIR

UC San Diego (McAuley Lab) · USA

Light encoders trained on pairs of item card and real review: they produce item vectors for similar-item blocks and for search by a shopper description. The weights are small and run on an ordinary server.

  • A similar-items block based on descriptions
  • Product search from a shopper phrase
  • Suggesting cards for new listings
Sizes
125M и 355M
Hardware
from: Laptop
Commercial use allowedDetails
RecommendersNot maintained2024

RecGPT

VinAI Research · Vietnam

A 7B language model further trained on review and product-card text for recommendation and rating-prediction tasks. The licence forbids commercial use; a store still needs its own order history.

  • Predicting the rating a user would give an item
  • Suggesting the next purchase from history
  • Researching text-based recommendations
Sizes
7B
Hardware
from: 1 GPU
Non-commercial onlyDetails
RecommendersNot maintained2023

LC-Rec

Renmin University of China · China

An approach where every item gets a short identifier code that a language model understands, and the model predicts that code. Delta weights for three categories are published; no licence is stated on the card.

  • Suggesting the next item from history
  • Turning a catalogue into short codes for the model
  • Recommendations from a shopper text request
Sizes
about 7B (a delta to LLaMA weights)
Hardware
from: 1 GPU
Commercial use with conditionsDetails
RecommendersNot maintained2023

FashionCLIP

FashionCLIP research project (Farfetch data) · not disclosed

A time-tested model for clothing and footwear: it places an item photo and its description in one space, so it fits similar-item blocks and outfit matching. Fine-tuning for your own assortment is advisable.

  • Similar items by photograph
  • Building an outfit and matching add-ons
  • Automatic tagging of clothing cards
Sizes
built on CLIP ViT-B/32
Hardware
from: Laptop
Commercial use allowedDetails
RecommendersNot maintained2022

P5

Rutgers University · USA

An early and still popular approach where recommendations are expressed as plain text: one small engine handles selection, rating and explanation. Checkpoints are trained on public datasets; a store needs its own.

  • Suggesting the next item from history
  • Predicting an item rating
  • A text explanation of a recommendation
Sizes
small and base versions built on T5
Hardware
from: Laptop
Commercial use allowedDetails

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