AI models and papers trending on October 12, 2026
The edition of this day as it was recorded: models with the likes and downloads they had then, and the most upvoted papers of the daily list.
On Monday, October 12, 2026 the model at the top of the ranking was google/embeddinggemma-2 (feature extraction), with 98,829 downloads in 30 days and 1,774 likes. 1 model was held back for having likes without downloads. The most upvoted paper was "ProgramGym: Scaling Training Environments for Long-Horizon Program Reproduction Agents" from ProgramGym, with 41 votes. 13 of the 15 leading papers had a code repository attached.
Recorded 2026-10-12 07:05 UTC · numbers are those of that moment
Papers
- 41
ProgramGym: Scaling Training Environments for Long-Horizon Program Reproduction Agents
ProgramGymarXiv 2610.13395 (opens in a new tab)Code (opens in a new tab)
- 38
SoftwareGym: Scaling Computer-Use Agent Training with Diverse Synthesized Software Environments
arXiv 2610.12611 (opens in a new tab)Code (opens in a new tab)
- 34
DiffusionART: Efficient, Stable and Scalable Reinforcement of Diffusion Models
KlingAI ResearcharXiv 2610.12572 (opens in a new tab)Code (opens in a new tab)
- 34
VisionWeave: Weaving Elastic Visual Representations as a Native Capability of MLLMs
QwenarXiv 2610.07987 (opens in a new tab)Code (opens in a new tab)
- 32
Here the World in Stereo: Learning Dynamic Spatial Correspondence for Immersive Joint Video-Audio Generation
arXiv 2609.38748 (opens in a new tab)Code (opens in a new tab)
- 31
Reflex: Visually Grounded Reactive Humanoid Control
University of WashingtonarXiv 2610.12772 (opens in a new tab)Code (opens in a new tab)
- 30
EmbodiedCLBench: Evaluating Continual Learning for Self-Evolving Embodied Agents
PKU-VaLuE-LabarXiv 2610.13021 (opens in a new tab)Code (opens in a new tab)
- 30
SoloQ: Calibration-Free Quantization for Diffusion Language Models
University of Southern CaliforniaarXiv 2610.07121 (opens in a new tab)
- 27
Continually Post-training Small Models via Synthetic Self-distillation
LG AI ResearcharXiv 2610.13113 (opens in a new tab)
- 26
Can AI Agents Learn Their Way to the Top? Evaluating Heuristic Learning in a Long-Running Game Agent Competition
THU-CST-SASTarXiv 2610.12341 (opens in a new tab)Code (opens in a new tab)
- 24
SepGen: Multi-Stem Audio-Video Separation and Generation in a Single Model
arXiv 2610.11361 (opens in a new tab)Code (opens in a new tab)
- 21
RSI-Anything: Unlocking Recursive Self-Improvement with World Models
PhAI LabsarXiv 2610.13912 (opens in a new tab)Code (opens in a new tab)
- 19
Learning Representations to Guide Pixel Diffusion Transformers
alibabaarXiv 2610.12978 (opens in a new tab)Code (opens in a new tab)
- 17
Work2Skill: Capturing Human GUI Experience for Reusable Agent Skill Induction
Nex AGIarXiv 2610.12984 (opens in a new tab)Code (opens in a new tab)
- 17
PolyOCR-Venus: Unified OCR Foundation Models for Text-Centric Visual Intelligence
inclusionAIarXiv 2609.37712 (opens in a new tab)Code (opens in a new tab)
Models
- 1
Feature extraction · 98.8K downloads / 30 d · 1,774 likes
- 2
Text generation · 37.6K downloads / 30 d · 1,157 likes
- 3
Cloudflare/clef (opens in a new tab)
Image text to text · 14.4K downloads / 30 d · 2,042 likes
- 4
abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Text to image · 2.19M downloads / 30 d · 4,017 likes
- 5
Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo (opens in a new tab)
Text to image · 4,702 downloads / 30 d · 569 likes
- 6
Image to video · 1.73M downloads / 30 d · 7,347 likes
- 7
Aleph-Alpha/Kolibri-1 (opens in a new tab)
Text generation · 12.6K downloads / 30 d · 898 likes
- 8
Image text to text · 6.84M downloads / 30 d · 17.5K likes
- 9
ConwayResearch/Underdog-Saluki-27B-1.0 (opens in a new tab)
Text generation · 109K downloads / 30 d · 338 likes
- 10
Venastine-Research/Xing4.0-29B-A4B-GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Text generation · 48.4K downloads / 30 d · 700 likes
- 11
canberkkkkkk/ema-lightning (opens in a new tab)
Text to speech · 18.1K downloads / 30 d · 367 likes
- 12
LiquidAI/d1-3B (opens in a new tab)
Image text to text · 10.8K downloads / 30 d · 313 likes
- 13
AtomicChat/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo-Uncensored-GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Text to image · 101K downloads / 30 d · 345 likes
- 14
Cloudflare/clef-flash (opens in a new tab)
Image text to text · 22.1K downloads / 30 d · 766 likes
- 15
convaiinnovations/laya (opens in a new tab)
Text classification · 44.1K downloads / 30 d · 5,503 likes
- FrancisRing/Prism · 172 likes, 0 downloads
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Model lists exist from the first day the collector ran: Hugging Face does not publish past trending lists, so they cannot be rebuilt. Paper lists for earlier days were rebuilt from the Hugging Face daily papers archive, and those days are marked "papers only".
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The leading models with their task, likes and downloads on that day, the models held back, and the leading papers with their upvotes. Abstracts are not duplicated in the archive; each paper links to arXiv.
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