Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/microsoft/unilm/vs/recommenders-team/recommenders
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/microsoft/unilm/vs/recommenders-team/recommenders.md
Description: unilm and recommenders share 4 technologies: pyarrow, scikit-learn, transformers, and nltk. Both are written in Python.

# unilm vs recommenders

unilm and recommenders share 4 technologies: pyarrow, scikit-learn, transformers, and nltk. Both are written in Python.

- [microsoft/unilm](https://seerepo.com/r/microsoft/unilm): Large-scale Self-supervised Pre-training Across Tasks, Languages, and Modalities
- [recommenders-team/recommenders](https://seerepo.com/r/recommenders-team/recommenders): Best Practices on Recommendation Systems

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: pyarrow, scikit-learn, transformers, nltk
- Only in unilm: FastAPI, Flask, webdataset, OpenAI, Gradio, torch, timm, torchvision, datasets, opencv-python, sacrebleu, accelerate, sentencepiece, diffusers, deepspeed, torchaudio, tokenizers, bitsandbytes, einops, triton, tiktoken, vLLM, peft, torchmetrics, pycocotools, pillow, lxml, boto3
- Only in recommenders: seaborn

## Side by side

| | unilm | recommenders |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 769,203 lines written, 2,555 code files | 46,489 lines written, 107 code files |
| Who writes it | 0% of its commits signed by AI | 0% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code |
| Activity | Last push September 21, 2026, 1,092 commits, 22,240 stars | Last push November 4, 2026, 7,627 commits, 21,976 stars |
| Tests | 163 test files. 5.1% of its code files have a test that imports them | 103 test files. 72% of its code files have a test that imports them |

- Size: Lines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
- Who writes it: A commit counts as AI's when it carries its signature: a Co-Authored-By line, its author name or the merge of its branch.
- Activity: From GitHub and its history, on the day SeeRepo read it.
- Tests: The files that test the code, and the share of code files a test imports.

## Frequently asked questions

### Which is bigger, unilm or recommenders?

unilm, with 769,203 lines written; recommenders has 46,489.

The proof: [microsoft/unilm's code at commit 31c5b90](https://github.com/microsoft/unilm/tree/31c5b904ca1bf2afb4c234a6675c683a4e5fc7cd)

### Which has more GitHub stars, unilm or recommenders?

unilm, with 22,240 stars; recommenders has 21,976.

The proof: [microsoft/unilm on GitHub](https://github.com/microsoft/unilm)

### Which has more tests, unilm or recommenders?

unilm, with 163 test files; recommenders has 103.

The proof: [microsoft/unilm's code at commit 31c5b90](https://github.com/microsoft/unilm/tree/31c5b904ca1bf2afb4c234a6675c683a4e5fc7cd)

### Which was updated more recently, unilm or recommenders?

recommenders: its last push was on November 4, 2026, and unilm's on September 21, 2026.

The proof: [recommenders-team/recommenders's commits on GitHub](https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/commits)

## Sources

- microsoft/unilm: Read on November 5, 2026, at commit 31c5b90 (https://github.com/microsoft/unilm/tree/31c5b904ca1bf2afb4c234a6675c683a4e5fc7cd)
- recommenders-team/recommenders: Read on November 5, 2026, at commit c7fa55e (https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/tree/c7fa55ef7d5d2222c790ec3b91376fed68883309)

## What is your repo built with?

Any public repo, with no account: https://seerepo.com/r/owner/repo/built, with the owner and name it has on GitHub.