No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
implicit has 361K monthly downloads and 4K GitHub stars. Version 0.7.3 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2016.
It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in May 2026.
It is built on top of numpy, scipy and threadpoolctl. It is used by 9 tracked packages, including rectools, rtrec and fairreckitlib.
GitHub topics include collaborative-filtering, machine-learning and matrix-factorization.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
78
Adoption
65
Community
55
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
59 days ago
Monthly downloads
361,373
Active
Activity within 30 days
•
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
361,373
Stars
3,801
Stars per 1k downloads
10.52
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
•
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
11,163
Month daily avg
12,046
Momentum
-7.3%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
•
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
MIT
•
Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
54 days ago
Total releases
47
Releases/year
4.6
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
•
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
31
Monthly downloads
361,373
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
•
Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
60
Issue Burden
23.7
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
4.9%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
7.7K
Windows
37
macOS
31
Python Versions
3.11
42.2%
3.2K
3.12
35.9%
2.7K
3.10
11.8%
885
3.9
7.0%
521
3.8
3.1%
234
Top Countries
1.
US
5.3K
US
2.
JP
758
JP
3.
DE
666
DE
4.
IE
257
IE
5.
KR
186
KR
6.
NL
133
NL
7.
IN
115
IN
8.
PL
102
PL
9.
RU
93
RU
10.
BE
50
BE
Dependencies
4
- numpy >=1.17.0
- scipy >=0.16
- threadpoolctl
- tqdm >=4.27
1 optional dependencies
- rmm-cu13[gpu]
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
April 17, 2016
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
2 months ago
Latest Version
0.7.3
Total Releases
47
Contributors
31
Open PRs
7
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
Wheels
cp310
cp311
cp312
cp313
cp314
cp36
cp38
cp39
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh