Manning opens early access to Kim Falk's AI Recommender Systems, on building recommenders with transformers, LLMs, agents and RAG
Manning published this on Oct 13, 2026 (source: manning.com).
Manning has released AI Recommender Systems: Transformers, LLMs, agents, and RAG by Kim Falk in its MEAP early-access program, with 4 of 14 chapters available and print publication estimated for spring 2027. The book covers building an AI-first recommender system, candidate, filtering, scoring and reranking pipelines, cold-start problems, and deploying and monitoring recommenders in production. Falk, a principal recommender engineer, previously wrote Practical Recommender Systems.