recommendationfamily
BERT4Rec
Sequential recommendation model using bidirectional transformer encoders. Paper by Sun et al. (2019).
Levelfamily
Classrecommendation
Parametersnot in the notes
Contextnot in the notes
Released14 Apr 2019
Opennessopen source
Runs onnot in the notes
Statusactive
Identity
- Developer
- Alibaba Group
- Family
- not in the notes
- Released
- 14 Apr 2019 sourcesannouncement page
- Weights published
- –
- Record checked
- 12 Oct 2026
Where this comes from
Developer and dates from the research notes. Release date is the vendor's public announcement; weights date is when open weights were published.
Architecture and Size
- Architecture
- dense transformer Bidirectional transformer trained with masked item prediction
- Total parameters
- – sources
- Active parameters
- –
- Checkpoint parameters
- –
- Context length
- not in the notes
- Input
- table
- Output
- table
Where this comes from
Parameter counts as the developer states them. Where the checkpoint holds a different total, both are shown (register A16).
Openness and Access
- Openness
- open source
- Licence
- Apache License 2.0 sources
- Access routes
- not in the notes
Where this comes from
The licence file governs over registry tags and aggregator labels.
Deployment
- Runs on
- not in the notes
- Footprint
- Licence is that of the authors' FeiSun/BERT4Rec repository (Apache-2.0).
- Runtimes
- not in the notes
Where this comes from
Deployment tiers and runtimes as named in the notes. Footprint is the notes' figure, not a measurement by AURION.
Indonesia
- Indonesian support
- not stated
- Regional languages
- not in the notes
- Jakarta hosting
- unknown
- Languages
- not in the notes
Where this comes from
Indonesia fields are carried on every model; unknown is an allowed value.
Benchmark Results
The notes record no benchmark result for this model.
Lineage
The notes record no lineage for this model.
Industry Use Cases
No industry use case links this model.
Links
DeveloperAlibaba Groupbig tech, China
Alibaba Groupbig tech, ChinaModelBERT4RecAlibaba Group, recommendation
BERT4RecAlibaba Group, recommendationUse CasesSuper-App Recommendation and PersonalisationRetail and LogisticsUse cases of models in the same R&D topic; none is recorded for this model itself.
Who Runs It
GrabIn production, 6 Oct 2026Deployments of these use cases; none names this model.
GrabIn production, 6 Oct 2026Deployments of these use cases; none names this model.Organisations 1
Sources
- arxiv.org/abs/1904.06690 https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.06690
- github.com/FeiSun/BERT4Rec https://github.com/FeiSun/BERT4Rec
- github.com/RUCAIBox/RecBole2.0/blob/main/model_list.md https://github.com/RUCAIBox/RecBole2.0/blob/main/model_list.md
- arxiv.org/html/1904.06690 https://arxiv.org/html/1904.06690
To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "BERT4Rec", https://aurion.semai.id/models/bert4rec/, records of October 2026.