NewsReX: A More Efficient Approach to News Recommendation with Keras 3 and JAX
Paper β’ 2508.21572 β’ Published
GLORY news recommendation model trained on MIND-small using the NewsReX framework (JAX).
| Seed | AUC | MRR | NDCG@5 | NDCG@10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 123 | 0.6636 | 0.3148 | 0.3482 | 0.4116 |
| 42 * | 0.6653 | 0.3201 | 0.3533 | 0.4168 |
| 456 | 0.6583 | 0.3107 | 0.3433 | 0.4072 |
| mean Β± std | 0.6624Β±0.0030 | 0.3152Β±0.0038 | 0.3483Β±0.0041 | 0.4119Β±0.0040 |
* Best seed (weights at repo root)
model:
name: glory
architecture:
news_encoder:
type: mha_pool
head_num: 20
head_dim: 20
attention_hidden_dim: 200
graph_encoder:
type: gated_graph_conv
gnn_num_layers: 3
use_graph_type: 0
directed: true
k_hops: 2
num_neighbors: 8
entity_neighbors: 10
click_predictor:
type: dot_product
embedding:
size: 300
trainable: true
dropout_rate: 0.2
seed: 42
use_entity: true
entity_emb_dim: 100
inputs:
title:
max_length: 30
entity:
max_length: 5
history:
max_length: 50
impressions:
max_length: 5
process_title: true
process_abstract: false
process_category: true
process_subcategory: true
process_entities: true
process_user_id: false
training:
loss:
name: categorical_crossentropy
from_logits: true
reduction: sum_over_batch_size
label_smoothing: 0.0
optimizer: adam
learning_rate: 0.0002
batch_size: 32
grad_accum_steps: 1
num_epochs: 20
gradient_clip_val: 1.0
early_stopping:
patience: 5
min_improvement: 0.01
negative_sampling:
strategy: random
candidates: 4
evaluation:
mode: fast
evaluator: default
metrics:
- auc
- mrr
- ndcg@5
- ndcg@10
batch_size: 256
newsrex/GLORY-JAX-MIND-small/
βββ model.safetensors β best seed (42)
βββ test_results.json
βββ training_run_summary.json
βββ seed_123/model.safetensors
βββ seed_42/model.safetensors
βββ seed_456/model.safetensors
βββ README.md
git clone https://github.com/igor17400/NewsReX.git
cd NewsReX && uv sync
# Run evaluation with best seed weights
uv run python src/eval.py \
experiment=mind/glory \
framework=jax \
weights=hf://newsrex/GLORY-JAX-MIND-small/model.safetensors
# Run evaluation with a specific seed
uv run python src/eval.py \
experiment=mind/glory \
framework=jax \
weights=hf://newsrex/GLORY-JAX-MIND-small/seed_42/model.safetensors
@misc{newsrex2026,
title={NewsReX: An Open-Source Multi-Framework for Neural News Recommendation},
author={Igor L. R. Azevedo and Toyotaro Suzumura and Yuichiro Yasui},
year={2025},
eprint={2508.21572},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.IR},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21572},
}