NewsReX: A More Efficient Approach to News Recommendation with Keras 3 and JAX
Paper β’ 2508.21572 β’ Published
LSTUR news recommendation model trained on MIND-small using the NewsReX framework (JAX).
| Seed | AUC | MRR | NDCG@5 | NDCG@10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 123 * | 0.6703 | 0.3170 | 0.3535 | 0.4167 |
| 42 | 0.6642 | 0.3131 | 0.3471 | 0.4110 |
| 456 | 0.6686 | 0.3214 | 0.3562 | 0.4190 |
| mean Β± std | 0.6677Β±0.0026 | 0.3172Β±0.0034 | 0.3523Β±0.0038 | 0.4156Β±0.0034 |
* Best seed (weights at repo root)
newsrex/LSTUR-JAX-MIND-small/
βββ model.safetensors β best seed (123)
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/lstur \
framework=jax \
weights=hf://newsrex/LSTUR-JAX-MIND-small/model.safetensors
# Run evaluation with a specific seed
uv run python src/eval.py \
experiment=mind/lstur \
framework=jax \
weights=hf://newsrex/LSTUR-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},
}