[tw1984]

for those interested, Chinese laws forbid the export of recommendation systems, unless ByteDance is challenging the Chinese laws here, which is highly unlikely, this simple can not be the recommendation system used in their production.

will be far more interesting to know say what is the difference, what got changed/removed to make them feel comfortable that such an open source variant won't get them into troubles with some 3-letters-acronym agencies back home.

[voxic11]

This is essentially the framework for executing their recommendation system but the actual piece which determines the recommendation is a model called "demo" so I presume its not the actual ML model they use in production.

[tw1984]

thank for the details, very useful.