How does Surprise compare to LightFM?

[hichemfantar]

A nice breakdown of the pros and cons of each library would be great.

[NicolasHug]

Take this with a grain of salt but the chat-GPT answer is surprisingly accurate https://chatgpt.com/share/d58097c0-b087-4650-8fdc-640ca64476a0 (I didn't fact-check everything!!!!)

[hichemfantar]

@NicolasHug I believe surprise only handles explicit rating while lightFM handles both implicit and explicit, is that correct?

[NicolasHug]

yup

[hichemfantar]

yup

Are there any plans to support implicit rating in the future?

[NicolasHug]

nope

[hichemfantar]

Is it because of a limitation with the current implementation, or do you lack the time to implement it or do you simply not want to include it with Surprise?
edit: i just read https://github.com/NicolasHug/Surprise?tab=readme-ov-file#development-status but still asking to see if the circumstances have changed.

[NicolasHug]

circumstances haven't changed

[hichemfantar]

Thanks for the info and your hard work !