AI models and papers trending on October 23, 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 Friday, October 23, 2026 the model at the top of the ranking was deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 (image text to text), with 51,911 downloads in 30 days and 2,420 likes. The most upvoted paper was "Deep Search in Real-World Web Environments", with 91 votes. 10 of the 15 leading papers had a code repository attached.
Recorded 2026-10-23 07:06 UTC · numbers are those of that moment
Papers
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Toward Recursive Self-Improvement in Physical AI
National University of SingaporearXiv 2610.29677 (opens in a new tab)Code (opens in a new tab)
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Models
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deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017
Image text to text · 51.9K downloads / 30 d · 2,420 likes
- 2
black-forest-labs/flux-3-image-klein-comfy
Image to image · 513K downloads / 30 d · 1,325 likes
- 3
Text generation · 420 downloads / 30 d · 584 likes
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Text to image · 6,890 downloads / 30 d · 602 likes
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Text to image · 5,013 downloads / 30 d · 500 likes
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Image to video · 2.05M downloads / 30 d · 8,928 likes
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Text to speech · 16.3K downloads / 30 d · 925 likes
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No task tag · 1.46M downloads / 30 d · 378 likes
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Text generation · 482 downloads / 30 d · 363 likes
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Feature extraction · 185K downloads / 30 d · 2,852 likes
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abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-Quantized
Text to image · 2.67M downloads / 30 d · 4,854 likes
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Image text to text · 7.76M downloads / 30 d · 18.2K likes
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meta-models/Muse-Spark-Open-816B-A42B
Image text to text · 3,163 downloads / 30 d · 664 likes
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Text generation · 125K downloads / 30 d · 2,102 likes
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Text generation · 2,966 downloads / 30 d · 292 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.