ronantakizawa/huggingface-top-papers

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)

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