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New #LensKit #RecSys release - 2026.2.0, the first feature update for 2026. Includes rendering pipeline configurations to Mermaid for visualization & debugging! https://github.com/orgs/lenskit/discussions/1105

2026 Feature Update 1 · lenskit · Discussion #1105

This is the first feature update of the 2026 release series. Details are in the release notes. Highlights: New pipeline tooling for expanding a configuration file into a full configuration (lenskit...

GitHub

LensKit RecSys Toolkit Apr 18

Pleased to announce the first 2026 release of LensKit — the same ideas as 2025, with some training and metric interface cleanups, and improved defaults. Most of your 2025 code will work unchanged. Bug reports, questions, PRs, etc. welcome! https://lenskit.org/stable/releases/2026.html

2026 Releases

2026 builds on the foundation of 2025 to improve the ergonomics of data access, querying, and metrics, and clean up some APIs that seemed good at the time, while making it even easier to use LensKi...

LensKit

LensKit RecSys Toolkit Aug 1, 2025

Spent some time today updating the list of #RecSys research using LensKit, and we're now at 105 known research products using LensKit for Python! https://lenskit.org/research/

As a friendly reminder, if you use LensKit in your research, please cite the CIKM'20 paper (https://md.ekstrandom.net/pubs/lkpy), as that makes tracking usage easier. Also, drop Michael an e-mail with your paper!

LensKit — Research

LensKit RecSys Toolkit Dec 8, 2024

The next LensKit release will be the biggest since the switch to Python, a fundamental paradigm shift to support better flexibility, easier correctness, and improved self-documentation. Still working on code, testing, and docs, but a preview: https://lkpy.lenskit.org/en/latest/guide/migrating.html

Migrating from LensKit 0.x

LensKit 2025.1 brings the largest changes to LensKit’s APIs and operation since moving to Python. These changes are a result of years of experience using and teaching the current Python APIs, talki...

LensKit

LensKit RecSys Toolkit Oct 27, 2023

Hello, #recsys world! We're over here now.