ReChorus2.0: A Modular and Task-Flexible Recommendation Library

TL;DR

ReChorus2.0 is a flexible, modular recommendation library that supports diverse data formats, models, and tasks, enabling researchers to implement complex recommendation scenarios more easily.

Contribution

It extends existing recommendation libraries by supporting multiple tasks, data types, and highly customizable inputs, filling a gap for flexible research experimentation.

Findings

Supports complex tasks like reranking and CTR prediction

Includes various context-aware recommenders

Enables models to perform multiple tasks with the same architecture

Abstract

With the applications of recommendation systems rapidly expanding, an increasing number of studies have focused on every aspect of recommender systems with different data inputs, models, and task settings. Therefore, a flexible library is needed to help researchers implement the experimental strategies they require. Existing open libraries for recommendation scenarios have enabled reproducing various recommendation methods and provided standard implementations. However, these libraries often impose certain restrictions on data and seldom support the same model to perform different tasks and input formats, limiting users from customized explorations. To fill the gap, we propose ReChorus2.0, a modular and task-flexible library for recommendation researchers. Based on ReChorus, we upgrade the supported input formats, models, and training&evaluation strategies to help realize more recommendation tasks with more data types. The main contributions of ReChorus2.0 include: (1) Realization of complex and practical tasks, including reranking and CTR prediction tasks; (2) Inclusion of various context-aware and rerank recommenders; (3) Extension of existing and new models to support different tasks with the same models; (4) Support of highly-customized input with impression logs, negative items, or click labels, as well as user, item, and situation contexts. To summarize, ReChorus2.0 serves as a comprehensive and flexible library better aligning with the practical problems in the recommendation scenario and catering to more diverse research needs. The implementation and detailed tutorials of ReChorus2.0 can be found at https://github.com/THUwangcy/ReChorus.