NewsReX: A More Efficient Approach to News Recommendation with Keras 3 and JAX
Paper β’ 2508.21572 β’ Published
PPREC news recommendation model trained on MIND-small using the NewsReX framework (PYTORCH).
| Seed | AUC | MRR | NDCG@5 | NDCG@10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 123 * | 0.6693 | 0.3163 | 0.3544 | 0.4158 |
| 42 | 0.6608 | 0.3107 | 0.3452 | 0.4087 |
| 456 | 0.6592 | 0.3120 | 0.3464 | 0.4087 |
| mean Β± std | 0.6631Β±0.0044 | 0.3130Β±0.0024 | 0.3487Β±0.0041 | 0.4111Β±0.0033 |
* Best seed (weights at repo root)
newsrex/PPREC-PYTORCH-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/pprec \
framework=pytorch \
weights=hf://newsrex/PPREC-PYTORCH-MIND-small/model.safetensors
# Run evaluation with a specific seed
uv run python src/eval.py \
experiment=mind/pprec \
framework=pytorch \
weights=hf://newsrex/PPREC-PYTORCH-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},
}