AI models and papers trending on October 28, 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. This is the current edition.
On Wednesday, October 28, 2026 the model at the top of the ranking was deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 (image text to text), with 105,667 downloads in 30 days and 3,437 likes. The most upvoted paper was "ChronoReplay: One Answer Interface Is Not Enough for Streaming Spatial Intelligence" from LINs lab, with 131 votes. 8 of the 15 leading papers had a code repository attached.
Recorded 2026-10-28 07:02 UTC · numbers are those of that moment
Papers
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Memory Tax: Dissecting the Net Value of Agent Memory
University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignarXiv 2610.34073 (opens in a new tab)Code (opens in a new tab)GitHub Trending Today (opens in a new tab)
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Cross-modal Steering Vectors Exist Across Both Image and Text Generation
Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence InstitutearXiv 2610.36269 (opens in a new tab)Code (opens in a new tab)GitHub Trending Today (opens in a new tab)
Models
- 1
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017
Image text to text · 106K downloads / 30 d · 3,437 likes
- 2
Text generation · 10.6K downloads / 30 d · 1,086 likes
- 3
Text generation · 4,785 downloads / 30 d · 683 likes
- 4
Text generation · 6,191 downloads / 30 d · 817 likes
- 5
black-forest-labs/flux-3-image-klein-comfy
Image to image · 751K downloads / 30 d · 1,882 likes
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Image text to text · 11.1K downloads / 30 d · 428 likes
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Image to video · 2.16M downloads / 30 d · 9,606 likes
- 8
ISTA-DASLab/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017-GSQ-RCO-GGUF
Text generation · 1.11M downloads / 30 d · 407 likes
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Text generation · 6,613 downloads / 30 d · 347 likes
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Image text to text · 7.52M downloads / 30 d · 18.6K likes
- 11
abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-Quantized
Text to image · 2.2M downloads / 30 d · 5,211 likes
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Text generation · 15K downloads / 30 d · 300 likes
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Image text to text · 513 downloads / 30 d · 275 likes
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Text to image · 13.3K downloads / 30 d · 790 likes
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orcarouter/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017-abliterated-GGUF
Text generation · 13.4K downloads / 30 d · 285 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.
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