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I very much doubt this is the TikTok algorithm.

1. It doesn't even claim to be that.

2. It's over a year old - so even if it was, this is no longer it.

3. There's zero incentive for them to release it, but every incentive to release a fake one.

4. TikTok is too much of a national asset, I doubt the Chinese government would not use it to their advantage (and transparency would be counter to that).

Edit: there's also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42471278

From what I can tell, they didn't release the actual model, but rather a kind of framework for running and training models in a distributed way. The only actual "model" in there appears to be three Dense layers in a "demo" file.

I mean, it's their serving infra, but not their features. See my reply in another parent comment.

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