AI models and papers trending on October 29, 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 Thursday, October 29, 2026 the model at the top of the ranking was deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 (image text to text), with 116,770 downloads in 30 days and 3,637 likes. The most upvoted paper was "DTCA: Denoising Token Credit Assignment for Reinforcement Learning in Diffusion Language Models" from ZJU-OmniAI, with 255 votes. 4 of the 6 leading papers had a code repository attached.
Recorded 2026-10-29 07:03 UTC · numbers are those of that moment
Papers
- 255
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Models
- 1
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017
Image text to text · 117K downloads / 30 d · 3,637 likes
- 2
Text generation · 7,412 downloads / 30 d · 742 likes
- 3
Text generation · 14K downloads / 30 d · 1,209 likes
- 4
Text generation · 8,222 downloads / 30 d · 878 likes
- 5
tencent/Hy-SimulMT-30B-A3B-FP8
Translation · 165 downloads / 30 d · 426 likes
- 6
Text generation · 8,892 downloads / 30 d · 420 likes
- 7
Image text to text · 13.2K downloads / 30 d · 470 likes
- 8
ISTA-DASLab/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017-GSQ-RCO-GGUF
Text generation · 1.38M downloads / 30 d · 455 likes
- 9
Image to video · 2.23M downloads / 30 d · 9,756 likes
- 10
black-forest-labs/flux-3-image-klein-comfy
Image to image · 799K downloads / 30 d · 1,979 likes
- 11
Image text to text · 8,357 downloads / 30 d · 349 likes
- 12
Image text to text · 7.52M downloads / 30 d · 18.6K likes
- 13
abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-Quantized
Text to image · 2.18M downloads / 30 d · 5,277 likes
- 14
orcarouter/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017-abliterated-GGUF
Text generation · 27.1K downloads / 30 d · 318 likes
- 15
Text generation · 2,305 downloads / 30 d · 260 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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