Welcome to Ducho’s documentation!

What is Ducho

Ducho v2.0 is a Python framework for the extraction of multimodal features for recommendation. It provides a unified interface to most of the common libraries for deep learning (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, Transformers, Sentence-Transformers) to extract high-level features from items (e.g., product images/descriptions) and user-item interactions (e.g., users reviews). It is highly configurable through a YAML-based configuration file (which may be override by input arguments from the command line in case). Users can indicate the source from which to extract the multimodal features (i.e., items/interactions), the modalities (i.e., visual/textual/audio/multiple), and the list of models along with output layers and preprocessing steps to extract the features. Moreover, with the new version of Ducho, users can conduct extractions by utilizing their own pretrained models.

system schema

Backends-Modalities available settings in Ducho v2.0

	Sources		Backends
	Items	Interactions	TensorFlow	PyTorch	Transformers	Sentence-Transformers
Audio
Visual
Text
Visual-Textual

GET STARTED

• Introduction
• Installation
• How can I run Ducho

API REFERENCE:

• ducho package
• ducho.config package
• ducho.internal package
• ducho.multimodal package
• ducho.runner package

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page