RecommendersGGUF2025–2026
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
Recommenders2025
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
Recommenders2024–2025
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
Recommenders2024
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
Recommenders2024
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
RecommendersNot maintained2024
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
RecommendersGGUFNot maintained2024
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
RecommendersNot maintained2024
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
RecommendersNot maintained2024
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
RecommendersNot maintained2023
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
RecommendersNot maintained2023
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
RecommendersNot maintained2022
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