AI models and papers trending on October 18, 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 Sunday, October 18, 2026 the model at the top of the ranking was deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 (image text to text), with 0 downloads in 30 days and 1,102 likes. The most upvoted paper (from the daily list of October 16, 2026) was "Waypoint-OPD: Transferring RL-Induced Policy Shifts via Gated On-Policy Distillation", with 666 votes. 15 of the 15 leading papers had a code repository attached.
Recorded 2026-10-18 07:03 UTC · numbers are those of that moment
Papers
- 666
Waypoint-OPD: Transferring RL-Induced Policy Shifts via Gated On-Policy Distillation
arXiv 2610.21601 (opens in a new tab)Code (opens in a new tab)
- 577
OmniCompass: A Holistic Benchmark for Omni-Modal Video Grounding and Understanding
VCLabarXiv 2610.18829 (opens in a new tab)Code (opens in a new tab)
- 352
MJev-Spatial: System One Spatial Intelligence via Native Attention Matching
Mind LabarXiv 2610.22276 (opens in a new tab)Code (opens in a new tab)
- 315
OpenGCUA: Toward a Fully Open Stack for Generalist Computer Use
Tongyi-MAIarXiv 2610.22200 (opens in a new tab)Code (opens in a new tab)
- 284
FDE-Gym: The Last Mile of AI Delivery
DeepLethearXiv 2610.22350 (opens in a new tab)Code (opens in a new tab)
- 201
RoTA-Bench: Evaluating 3D Spatial Reasoning through Interactive Projection Alignment
MAC-AutoMLarXiv 2610.17665 (opens in a new tab)Code (opens in a new tab)
- 198
Self-Evolving Agent Harness
ZGCAGIarXiv 2610.18813 (opens in a new tab)Code (opens in a new tab)
- 153
MAI-Gym: An Open All-in-One Platform for GUI Agent Evaluation and RL Training across Mobile and Computer Environments
Tongyi-MAIarXiv 2610.20939 (opens in a new tab)Code (opens in a new tab)
- 134
Learning Where to Split: Dynamic Band Splitting for Audio Source Separation
Tsinghua Machine Learning GrouparXiv 2610.14993 (opens in a new tab)Code (opens in a new tab)
- 118
InfiniSplat v2: Analyzing and Improving Feed-Forward 3DGS from Any Views
zju3dvarXiv 2610.20341 (opens in a new tab)Code (opens in a new tab)
- 106
Behavioral Compositionality of Sparse Autoencoder Representations
OpenSAEarXiv 2610.21261 (opens in a new tab)Code (opens in a new tab)
- 105
3DCodeVerse: Exploring 3D Worlds as Code
University of Southern CaliforniaarXiv 2610.22341 (opens in a new tab)Code (opens in a new tab)
- 79
SCOPE: Semantic Bounded Credit Optimization for Prompt Engineering in Text-to-image Generation
University of RochesterarXiv 2610.22264 (opens in a new tab)Code (opens in a new tab)
- 77
Speculative Forcing for Efficient Autoregressive Video Generation
NAVER AI LabarXiv 2610.22347 (opens in a new tab)Code (opens in a new tab)
- 56
Each Reward to Its Relevant Tokens: Reward-Specific Token-Level Credit Assignment for Multi-Reward RL
Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial IntelligencearXiv 2610.21439 (opens in a new tab)Code (opens in a new tab)
Models
- 1
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017
Image text to text · 0 downloads / 30 d · 1,102 likes
- 2
Feature extraction · 158K downloads / 30 d · 2,614 likes
- 3
Text generation · 95.9K downloads / 30 d · 1,910 likes
- 4
openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-35B-A3B (opens in a new tab)
Image text to text · 36.3K downloads / 30 d · 908 likes
- 5
Text to speech · 8,193 downloads / 30 d · 634 likes
- 6
black-forest-labs/flux-3-image-klein-comfy
Image to image · 224K downloads / 30 d · 697 likes
- 7
meta-models/Muse-Spark-Open-816B-A42B
Image text to text · 1,600 downloads / 30 d · 517 likes
- 8
Image to video · 1.99M downloads / 30 d · 8,259 likes
- 9
LiquidAI/LFM2.5-24B-A2B (opens in a new tab)
Text generation · 11.9K downloads / 30 d · 451 likes
- 10
black-forest-labs/flux-3-image-klein
Image to image · 46.1K downloads / 30 d · 460 likes
- 11
abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-Quantized
Text to image · 2.57M downloads / 30 d · 4,505 likes
- 12
baidu/Unlimited-OCR (opens in a new tab)
Image text to text · 1.48M downloads / 30 d · 4,766 likes
- 13
Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo (opens in a new tab)
Text to image · 20.7K downloads / 30 d · 967 likes
- 14
Image text to text · 7.8M downloads / 30 d · 17.9K likes
- 15
openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-1B (opens in a new tab)
Image text to text · 15.2K downloads / 30 d · 380 likes
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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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