AI models and papers trending on October 20, 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 Tuesday, October 20, 2026 the model at the top of the ranking was deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 (image text to text), with 17,924 downloads in 30 days and 1,756 likes. The most upvoted paper was "Learning from Fleet Experience: A Collective Learning Paradigm for Robots", with 84 votes. 13 of the 15 leading papers had a code repository attached.
Recorded 2026-10-20 07:02 UTC · numbers are those of that moment
Papers
- 84
Learning from Fleet Experience: A Collective Learning Paradigm for Robots
- 57
OpenVLHarness: Real World Visual Agentic Tool-Use with Multimodal Memory
University of California, Los AngelesarXiv 2610.26860 (opens in a new tab)Code (opens in a new tab)
- 40
ScaleNav: Scalable Internet Video Pretraining for Language-Conditioned Local Navigation
arXiv 2610.25690 (opens in a new tab)Code (opens in a new tab)
- 30
Self-Evolving Coding Agents via Harness-Policy Optimization
Microsoft ResearcharXiv 2610.22791 (opens in a new tab)Code (opens in a new tab)
- 30
MT Forcing: Towards Stable and Consistent Multi-Turn Image Editing with Autoregressive Diffusion
SenseNovaarXiv 2610.25404 (opens in a new tab)Code (opens in a new tab)
- 28
CoworkEnv: Synthesizing Training Environments for Long-Horizon Cowork Agents
arXiv 2610.24960 (opens in a new tab)Code (opens in a new tab)
- 23
OR-License: Evaluating LLM Agents as Real-World Operations Research Practitioners
Data Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab at HKUSTarXiv 2610.24087 (opens in a new tab)Code (opens in a new tab)
- 23
RoAR-VAE: Improving Latent Diffusability through Robust Prediction
Tsinghua-LeapLabarXiv 2610.26216 (opens in a new tab)Code (opens in a new tab)
- 22
AnyGoal: On World Model Generalization Beyond Expert Rollouts
galilai-grouparXiv 2610.26844 (opens in a new tab)Code (opens in a new tab)
- 19
InfiniDream: Open-Ended Photorealistic 3D Worlds Through Procedural Generation
Alaya LabarXiv 2610.26853 (opens in a new tab)Code (opens in a new tab)
- 16
Scaling Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for Brain Encoding
- 16
EgoXperience: Learning World-Grounded Egocentric Representations from Human Experience
RopediaarXiv 2610.26625 (opens in a new tab)Code (opens in a new tab)
- 15
SpecMRL: Redesign Matryoshka Representation Learning within Parametric Spectrum
arXiv 2610.26824 (opens in a new tab)Code (opens in a new tab)
- 13
MemPilot: Orchestrating On-Demand Multimodal Memory Curation for LLM Agents
Nanyang Technological UniversityarXiv 2610.06830 (opens in a new tab)Code (opens in a new tab)
- 13
AffordanceWAM: Affordance-Aware Joint World-Action Modeling for Robot Manipulation
Peking UniversityarXiv 2609.22332 (opens in a new tab)Code (opens in a new tab)
Models
- 1
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017
Image text to text · 17.9K downloads / 30 d · 1,756 likes
- 2
black-forest-labs/flux-3-image-klein-comfy
Image to image · 393K downloads / 30 d · 1,001 likes
- 3
Text to speech · 11.8K downloads / 30 d · 787 likes
- 4
openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-35B-A3B (opens in a new tab)
Image text to text · 76.4K downloads / 30 d · 1,071 likes
- 5
Feature extraction · 168K downloads / 30 d · 2,734 likes
- 6
Text generation · 11K downloads / 30 d · 1,999 likes
- 7
meta-models/Muse-Spark-Open-816B-A42B
Image text to text · 2,109 downloads / 30 d · 587 likes
- 8
LiquidAI/LFM2.5-24B-A2B (opens in a new tab)
Text generation · 14.2K downloads / 30 d · 504 likes
- 9
black-forest-labs/flux-3-image-klein
Image to image · 62K downloads / 30 d · 533 likes
- 10
Image to video · 2.02M downloads / 30 d · 8,515 likes
- 11
Text to image · 3,336 downloads / 30 d · 446 likes
- 12
Text to image · 2,774 downloads / 30 d · 392 likes
- 13
abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-Quantized
Text to image · 2.74M downloads / 30 d · 4,656 likes
- 14
Image text to text · 7.46M downloads / 30 d · 18K likes
- 15
baidu/Unlimited-OCR (opens in a new tab)
Image text to text · 1.8M downloads / 30 d · 4,827 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.
How are weeks defined?
ISO 8601 weeks: Monday to Sunday, numbered so that week 1 contains the first Thursday of the year. The address /week/2026-40 is week 40 of 2026.