AI models and papers trending on October 19, 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 19, 2026 the model at the top of the ranking was deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 (image text to text), with 10,233 downloads in 30 days and 1,446 likes. The most upvoted paper was "Has GPT-6-Astra Achieved Embodied Intelligence?" from SenseNova, with 88 votes. 12 of the 15 leading papers had a code repository attached.
Recorded 2026-10-19 07:04 UTC · numbers are those of that moment
Papers
- 88
Has GPT-6-Astra Achieved Embodied Intelligence?
SenseNovaarXiv 2610.22471 (opens in a new tab)Code (opens in a new tab)
- 86
Pack Light, CarryOn: Building Object-Oriented Context for Long-Horizon Agents
McAuley-LabarXiv 2610.18784 (opens in a new tab)Code (opens in a new tab)
- 69
HexaShell: A Thin Harness for Exploring the Limits of VLM Agents as Robot Coding Agents
HexaFuturearXiv 2610.23479 (opens in a new tab)Code (opens in a new tab)
- 69
Into the Unknown: Benchmarking AI agents on open scientific research problems
Carnegie Mellon UniversityarXiv 2610.19159 (opens in a new tab)Code (opens in a new tab)
- 54
BizBench: Unveiling Hidden Challenges in Deploying Long-Horizon Agents for Real-World Business
ant-internationalarXiv 2610.20424 (opens in a new tab)Code (opens in a new tab)
- 38
Learning to Think and Explore in 3D World
University of California at San DiegoarXiv 2610.21783 (opens in a new tab)
- 27
OpenMobile-2: Building Versatile Mobile Agents with Scalable Environments and App-Native Tools
Nanjing UniversityarXiv 2610.14157 (opens in a new tab)Code (opens in a new tab)
- 26
BridgeWAM: Bridging Video and Action Experts via Latent Bridge Queries
Fudan UniversityarXiv 2610.14746 (opens in a new tab)Code (opens in a new tab)
- 24
From Research Goals to Scientific Closure: Evaluating Agents Through Evidence-Supported Physics Research
Shanghai AI LaboratoryarXiv 2610.21767 (opens in a new tab)Code (opens in a new tab)
- 21
Tree-Aware Posterior Distillation for Long-Horizon Agentic Reinforcement Learning
Tencent HunyuanarXiv 2610.23181 (opens in a new tab)
- 16
DLite: History-free Speculative Decoding for Agentic AI
Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityarXiv 2610.23787 (opens in a new tab)Code (opens in a new tab)
- 13
Execution Before Memory: Diagnosing Memory Failures in Video World Models
The University of Hong KongarXiv 2610.23542 (opens in a new tab)Code (opens in a new tab)
- 13
Speculative Sampling in Interactive Video Generation
university of science and technology of chinaarXiv 2610.20556 (opens in a new tab)Code (opens in a new tab)
- 12
DiscoveryRSI: Recursively Learning to Discover Valuable Hypotheses
PhAI LabsarXiv 2610.23839 (opens in a new tab)Code (opens in a new tab)
- 9
OfficeTown: Generative Organizations for Evolving Agent Intelligence
Models
- 1
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017
Image text to text · 10.2K downloads / 30 d · 1,446 likes
- 2
openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-35B-A3B (opens in a new tab)
Image text to text · 57.9K downloads / 30 d · 1,022 likes
- 3
Feature extraction · 164K downloads / 30 d · 2,674 likes
- 4
Text to speech · 9,620 downloads / 30 d · 713 likes
- 5
Text generation · 104K downloads / 30 d · 1,959 likes
- 6
black-forest-labs/flux-3-image-klein-comfy
Image to image · 338K downloads / 30 d · 838 likes
- 7
meta-models/Muse-Spark-Open-816B-A42B
Image text to text · 1,809 downloads / 30 d · 554 likes
- 8
LiquidAI/LFM2.5-24B-A2B (opens in a new tab)
Text generation · 13K downloads / 30 d · 479 likes
- 9
Image to video · 2.01M downloads / 30 d · 8,402 likes
- 10
black-forest-labs/flux-3-image-klein
Image to image · 52.3K downloads / 30 d · 495 likes
- 11
abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-Quantized
Text to image · 2.66M downloads / 30 d · 4,576 likes
- 12
Text to image · 2,087 downloads / 30 d · 361 likes
- 13
baidu/Unlimited-OCR (opens in a new tab)
Image text to text · 1.65M downloads / 30 d · 4,802 likes
- 14
Text to image · 1,791 downloads / 30 d · 314 likes
- 15
Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo (opens in a new tab)
Text to image · 23.1K downloads / 30 d · 988 likes
About the archive
How far back does the archive go?
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".
What is kept for each day?
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.
Do archived numbers change?
No. A day’s record is the last collection of that day and is not rewritten afterwards. Likes and downloads you see on an archived day are the values on that day, not today’s.
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