✦ Research Preview · August 2026

Billion-Item Neural
Recommendation Sorcerer

DreamMachine — industrial-grade recommendation engine supporting 10 billion items and 10 billion users with ≤ 100 ms end-to-end latency.

10¹⁰
Max Items
10¹⁰
Max Users
<100ms
P99 Latency
1.0
HR@10
0.537
NDCG@10
7
Contributions

Why DreamMachine?

Not a wrapper. A full research-grade production system built from scratch.

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Multi-Hash Embedding

K = 3 independent hash tables eliminate ID explosion. Supports 10¹⁰-item catalogues with collision ε < 1% at B = 100 M buckets.

ε_eff = (1 − e^{−N/2B})^K
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Dual-Tower Transformer

Independent item and user towers with L = 2 Transformer layers, H = 8 attention heads, d = 128. L2-normalised output for cosine similarity.

s(u,i) = u·v / τ (τ = 0.07)
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RAG-Enhanced Recall

Multi-channel retrieval combining FAISS HNSW/IVF-PQ vector search, collaborative filtering, popularity signals, and business rules.

< 50 ms P99 end-to-end
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Closed-Form Scaling Laws

9 operating points from 10² to 10¹⁰ items with closed-form proofs. Predict the right config before writing a single training line.

9 breakpoints · 10² → 10¹⁰
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Cross-Attention Re-ranker

Listwise re-ranking with simultaneous CTR, CVR, and dwell-time prediction. Uncertainty-weighted InfoNCE multi-task loss.

Learnable σ_k² per task
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Production Serving Stack

FastAPI + ONNX + INT8 quantisation + A/B testing framework. Runs identically from RTX 3060 laptop to 250 × A100 cluster.

≤ 100 ms · ONNX · INT8

Benchmarks

Evaluated on 1,000 simulated e-commerce items (JD / Taobao schema). Numbers reflect the real checkpoint hf_model/model.safetensors.

0.4849
AUC
1K items, cold-start
1.0
HR@10
Perfect recall, top-10
0.537
NDCG@10
Ranking quality, top-10
<5ms
GPU Forward
Item + user tower
≤100ms
E2E Latency
FastAPI + FAISS ANN
10¹⁰
Max Catalogue
Via Multi-Hash, B=100M

Architecture

End-to-end pipeline from raw JSON input to ranked recommendations.

                         Input JSON
                              │
                    ┌─────────▼──────────┐
                    │  FeatureExtractor   │
                    │  (JD / Taobao fmt)  │
                    └──┬──────────────┬──┘
                       │              │
          ┌────────────▼────┐  ┌──────▼──────────────┐
          │   Item Tower    │  │     User Tower       │
          │                 │  │                      │
          │ hash_ids × 3    │  │ hash_ids × 3         │
          │ category_l1–l3  │  │ demographics         │
          │ brand_hash_ids  │  │ city / region hashes │
          │ numeric [29]    │  │ numeric [57]         │
          │                 │  │                      │
          │ L=2 Transformer │  │ L=2 Transformer      │
          │ H=8  d=128      │  │ H=8  d=128           │
          │ L2-normalised   │  │ L2-normalised        │
          └────────┬────────┘  └────────┬─────────────┘
                   │  v ∈ S^{d−1}       │  u ∈ S^{d−1}
                   └──────────┬─────────┘
                              │
                    s(u,i) = u·v / τ    (τ = 0.07)
                              │
                   ┌──────────▼──────────┐
                   │  FAISS HNSW Index   │
                   │  top-K ANN recall   │
                   └──────────▼──────────┘
                              │
                   ┌──────────▼──────────┐
                   │  Cross-Attention    │
                   │  Listwise Re-ranker │
                   └──────────▼──────────┘
                         Top-N results
        

Seven original contributions spanning the full stack:

#ContributionKey Mechanism
C1 Multi-Hash Transformer Dual-Tower ε_eff = (1 − e^{−N/2B})^K
C2 Hierarchical Feature Architecture Typed token: ID → sparse → dense
C3 RAG-Enhanced Multi-Channel Recall FAISS IVF-PQ + CF + popularity
C4 Cross-Attention Listwise Re-ranker Simultaneous CTR / CVR / dwell-time
C5 Uncertainty-Weighted InfoNCE Learnable σ_k² per task
C6 Closed-Form Scaling Laws 9 breakpoints 10² → 10¹⁰ items
C7 Production Serving Stack FastAPI + ONNX + INT8, ≤ 100 ms

Quick Start

From zero to running recommendations in four steps.

# Install all dependencies
pip install torch safetensors transformers \
            faiss-cpu huggingface_hub datasets \
            uvicorn fastapi
          
from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download

# Download the full model repository
model_path = snapshot_download(
    repo_id="dream-machine-ai/Dream-Machine-08-09",
    repo_type="model",
)
print("Model at:", model_path)
          
from transformers import AutoConfig, AutoModel

config = AutoConfig.from_pretrained(
    "dream-machine-ai/Dream-Machine-08-09",
    trust_remote_code=True,
)
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(
    "dream-machine-ai/Dream-Machine-08-09",
    trust_remote_code=True,
).eval()

# Forward pass — cosine similarity score
# s(u, i) = u · v / τ,   τ = 0.07
          
# Clone and launch FastAPI inference server
git lfs install
git clone https://huggingface.co/dream-machine-ai/Dream-Machine-08-09
cd Dream-Machine-08-09

python serve_hf.py --model_dir ./hf_model --port 8000

# Query the recommendation API
curl -X POST http://localhost:8000/recommend \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -d '{"user_id":"U001","top_k":10,"scene":"homepage"}'
          

Dataset

Fully reproducible synthetic data in JD / Taobao schema — dream-machine-ai/Dream-Machine-08-09-Dataset

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data/products
1,000
SKU catalogue — price, brand, category, attributes
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data/users
1,000
User profiles — demographics, interests, spending habits
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data/behaviors
5,000
Interaction events — clicks, purchases, ratings
from datasets import load_dataset

REPO = "dream-machine-ai/Dream-Machine-08-09-Dataset"

products  = load_dataset(REPO, data_dir="data/products",  split="train")
users     = load_dataset(REPO, data_dir="data/users",     split="train")
behaviors = load_dataset(REPO, data_dir="data/behaviors", split="train")

print(f"Products : {len(products)} records")
print(f"Users    : {len(users)} records")
print(f"Behaviors: {len(behaviors)} records")
          
from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download

dataset_path = snapshot_download(
    repo_id="dream-machine-ai/Dream-Machine-08-09-Dataset",
    repo_type="dataset",
)
print("Dataset at:", dataset_path)
          

Technical Report

Full mathematical derivation, algorithm pseudocode, scaling proofs, and ablation studies.

TECHNICAL REPORT · 2026

DreamMachine: A Billion-Item Neural Recommendation Sorcerer

Wen, Fangjun · DreamMachine Research Team · August 2026

Covers: Multi-Hash collision bounds · Closed-form scaling law proofs (Theorems 3.1–3.3) · Algorithm pseudocode for all 7 contributions (Alg. 1–9) · Ablation studies · Scaling charts

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