README.md

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license: mit
task_categories:
- text-classification
- time-series-forecasting
- text-retrieval
tags:
- huggingface
- trending
- papers
- machine-learning
- arxiv
- research
- time-series
language:
- en
size_categories:
- n<1K
---

# HuggingFace Top Trending Papers (2025)

A ranked dataset of the most trending papers on HuggingFace Daily Papers in 2025, based on weighted scoring of their trending appearances. This dataset captures which AI/ML research papers gained the most community attention and sustained visibility.

## 📊 Dataset Overview

- **Total Entries**: 663 ranked papers
- **Time Period**: 2025 (Jan - Nov)
- **Source**: Wayback Machine snapshots of HuggingFace Daily Papers
- **Unique Papers**: 663
- **Data Order**: Sorted by rank (1 = highest score)
- **Scoring Method**: Weighted by appearance frequency and rank position

## 🏆 Scoring Methodology

Each paper's score is calculated using:

```
Score = Σ (51 - rank) for each trending appearance

Where:
- Rank 1 = 50 points
- Rank 2 = 49 points
- ...
- Rank 50 = 1 point
```

**Why this works:**
- ✅ Rewards **frequent appearances** (more days trending = more points)
- ✅ Rewards **high rankings** (rank 1 is worth more than rank 25)
- ✅ Balances viral papers with consistently popular papers

### Example Calculation

Paper appears 3 times:
- Day 1: Rank 1 → 50 points
- Day 2: Rank 5 → 46 points
- Day 3: Rank 10 → 41 points
- **Total Score: 137**

## 🌟 Key Insights

### 1. Top 10 Most Trending Papers (2025)

| Rank | Paper | Score | Appearances | Avg Rank | Key Topic |
|------|-------|-------|-------------|----------|-----------|
| 1 | **LlamaFactory** | 17,160 | 432 | 11.28 | LLM Fine-tuning |
| 2 | DINOv3 | 10,372 | 346 | 21.02 | Computer Vision |
| 3 | Agent Lightning | 10,015 | 325 | 20.18 | RL for Agents |
| 4 | WebDancer | 10,010 | 398 | 25.85 | Information Seeking |
| 5 | WebShaper | 9,912 | 402 | 26.34 | Data Synthesis |
| 6 | WebWatcher | 9,881 | 393 | 25.86 | Vision-Language |
| 7 | WebSailor | 9,839 | 394 | 26.03 | Web Reasoning |
| 8 | InternVL3 | 9,746 | 349 | 23.07 | Vision-Language |
| 9 | AgentScope 1.0 | 9,474 | 290 | 18.33 | Agent Framework |
| 10 | Qwen-Image | 9,255 | 302 | 20.35 | Vision Language Model |

**Notable:** LlamaFactory appeared on trending **432 times** - nearly every day in 2025!

### 2. Research Themes Dominating 2025

**Web Agents & Information Systems (Major Trend)**
- 4 "Web" papers in top 10 (WebDancer, WebShaper, WebWatcher, WebSailor)
- 400+ appearances each showing sustained interest
- Focus on autonomous web navigation and reasoning

**Agent Systems**
- Agent Lightning, AgentScope in top 10
- Strong focus on reinforcement learning for agents
- Training frameworks and methodologies driving adoption

**Vision-Language Models**
- DINOv3, InternVL3, Qwen-Image all in top 10
- Combined 1,000+ appearances
- Integration of vision and language continues to trend

**LLM Fine-tuning Tools**
- LlamaFactory dominates with 432 appearances (#1)
- 63,300 GitHub stars shows massive adoption
- Democratizing access to fine-tuning

### 3. Appearance Patterns

**Most Consistent Papers (High Frequency):**
- **LlamaFactory**: 432 appearances (nearly every day!)
- **WebShaper**: 402 appearances
- **WebDancer**: 398 appearances
- **WebSailor**: 394 appearances
- **WebWatcher**: 393 appearances

**Highest Quality Rankings (Best Avg Rank):**
- Papers consistently ranking in top 10-15 positions
- **LlamaFactory**: 11.28 avg rank (best combination of frequency + quality)
- **AgentScope**: 18.33 avg rank
- **Agent Lightning**: 20.18 avg rank
- **Qwen-Image**: 20.35 avg rank

**Viral Papers (Few Appearances, High Impact):**
- Papers with <50 appearances but top 100 ranking show viral breakthrough moments
- Often coincide with major model releases or novel capabilities

### 4. Community Engagement Metrics

**Most Upvoted:**
- Qwen3: 316 upvotes
- DINOv3: 284 upvotes
- Qwen-Image: 261 upvotes
- A Survey of Context Engineering: 256 upvotes

**Most GitHub Stars:**
- PaddleOCR-VL: 65,400 stars
- LlamaFactory: 63,300 stars
- PaddleOCR 3.0: 57,600 stars
- OmniFlatten: 50,300 stars
- MinerU2.5: 49,600 stars