cs.IRApr 16, 2026

NewsTorch: A PyTorch-based Toolkit for Learner-oriented News Recommendation

Authors: Rongyao WangVeronica LiesaputraZhiyi Huang

Organizations: School of Computing, University of Otago, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand

Abstract

News recommender systems are devised to alleviate the information overload, attracting more and more researchers' attention in recent years. The lack of a dedicated learner-oriented news recommendation toolkit hinders the advancement of research in news recommendation. We propose a PyTorch-based news recommendation toolkit called NewsTorch, developed to support learners in acquiring both conceptual understanding and practical experience. This toolkit provides a modular, decoupled, and extensible framework with a learner-friendly GUI platform that supports dataset downloading and preprocessing. It also enables training, validation, and testing of state-of-the-art neural news recommendation models with standardized evaluation metrics, ensuring fair comparison and reproducible experiments. Our open-source toolkit is released on Github: https://github.com/whonor/NewsTorch.

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