# Research

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## [📌 Papers: Indexing & Authorship Claim — Quick Help](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/papers-indexing-authorship-claim-quick-help/173387)

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**Author:** [@hysts](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/hysts)\
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**Last updated:** [February 12, 2026, 8:28am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/papers-indexing-authorship-claim-quick-help/173387 "2026-02-12T08:28:50Z")

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1) Indexing issues (paper page creation) If you see “Indexing failed or took too long” or “Paper not found”: Wait and retry later. Indexing can fail temporarily due to upstream availability. Please don’t repeatedly cli…

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## [How do you put a hard cap on runaway agent spend?](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/how-do-you-put-a-hard-cap-on-runaway-agent-spend/190925)

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**Author:** [@ziadatalabs](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/ziadatalabs)\
**Replies:** 12\
**Last updated:** [October 24, 2026, 11:34pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/how-do-you-put-a-hard-cap-on-runaway-agent-spend/190925 "2026-10-24T23:34:51Z")

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Genuine question for people running agents in production: if one of your agents got stuck in a retry loop overnight, what actually stops it before morning? Most cost tools I’ve looked at (Langfuse, LangSmith, Portkey, He…

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## [Can ethical cooperation between humans and AI agents be tested?](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/can-ethical-cooperation-between-humans-and-ai-agents-be-tested/190977)

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**Author:** [@MaloneLionheart](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/MaloneLionheart)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [October 24, 2026, 7:15pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/can-ethical-cooperation-between-humans-and-ai-agents-be-tested/190977 "2026-10-24T19:15:55Z")

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Can Ethical Cooperation Between Humans and AI Agents Be Tested? Hello, Hugging Face community! My name is Aaron Cullimore. I’m a maker, artist, and AI server technical support engineer in Oklahoma. I’ve recently publis…

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## [How to improve my tokens per second?](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/how-to-improve-my-tokens-per-second/190270)

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**Author:** [@Digilidaahz](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/Digilidaahz)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [October 24, 2026, 11:01am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/how-to-improve-my-tokens-per-second/190270 "2026-10-24T11:01:17Z")

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I am now pretraining a 1B model (Model: ~977M params, 24 layers, 1792 hidden, 16 heads, 112 head dim, SwiGLU, RoPE, weight-tied embeddings) from a RTX 5080 16gb VRAM, I ran it on WSL Ubuntu and also enables gradient chec…

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## [Beforeword: can this rubric distinguish grounding from blanket skepticism?](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/beforeword-can-this-rubric-distinguish-grounding-from-blanket-skepticism/190911)

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**Author:** [@beforeword](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/beforeword)\
**Replies:** 13\
**Last updated:** [October 23, 2026, 8:45pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/beforeword-can-this-rubric-distinguish-grounding-from-blanket-skepticism/190911 "2026-10-23T20:45:45Z")

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Disclosure: this is posted from the Beforeword project account by an AI assistant acting on the author’s request. We are asking for independent criticism, not presenting independent validation. Beforeword starts from a …

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## [Community GPU grant — Kurdish (Kurmanji) open-source model](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/community-gpu-grant-kurdish-kurmanji-open-source-model/190958)

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**Author:** [@muzaffercky](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/muzaffercky)\
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**Last updated:** [October 23, 2026, 7:59pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/community-gpu-grant-kurdish-kurmanji-open-source-model/190958 "2026-10-23T19:59:43Z")

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Hi Hugging Face team, I’m an independent researcher building open-source NLP for Kurdish (Kurmanji), a low-resource language. I’m not affiliated with a university or company, but all my work is public and reproducible. …

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## [Improving Contextual Image Retrieval from a Local Dataset Using CLIP or SigLIP 2](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/improving-contextual-image-retrieval-from-a-local-dataset-using-clip-or-siglip-2/190937)

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**Author:** [@AnaghaB2026](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/AnaghaB2026)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [October 23, 2026, 6:07pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/improving-contextual-image-retrieval-from-a-local-dataset-using-clip-or-siglip-2/190937 "2026-10-23T18:07:08Z")

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Hi everyone, I am working on a project that retrieves visually similar and contextually related images from a local image folder using either a text query or a query image. I have experimented with CLIP ViT-B/32 and Si…

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## [Model can generalize code better with programming-language-aware tokenization](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/model-can-generalize-code-better-with-programming-language-aware-tokenization/190957)

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**Author:** [@SamLegion888](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/SamLegion888)\
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**Last updated:** [October 23, 2026, 5:51pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/model-can-generalize-code-better-with-programming-language-aware-tokenization/190957 "2026-10-23T17:51:11Z")

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I have been developing a SWE model with my own code, chats, conversations for my personal agent. While tinkering with Nvidia Nemotron 3 and Qwen 3.5, I found that while their tokenizer preserves most of the operators and…

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## [How to evaluate deceptive dialogue in LLM-based NPCs?](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/how-to-evaluate-deceptive-dialogue-in-llm-based-npcs/190842)

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**Author:** [@dameSY](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/dameSY)\
**Replies:** 9\
**Last updated:** [October 23, 2026, 4:46pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/how-to-evaluate-deceptive-dialogue-in-llm-based-npcs/190842 "2026-10-23T16:46:21Z")

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Hi everyone! I’m studying game AI and looking into LLM based NPC dialogue. How would you evaluate how well an NPC follows its assigned role when it needs to lie, hide information or give evasive answers? Are there any us…

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## [“2026 US Midterms Forecasting Experiment.”](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/2026-us-midterms-forecasting-experiment/190727)

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**Author:** [@Harry430](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/Harry430)\
**Replies:** 37\
**Last updated:** [October 23, 2026, 11:12am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/2026-us-midterms-forecasting-experiment/190727 "2026-10-23T11:12:38Z")

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The experiment is to test whether debate between AI models can improve election forecasts. Several models make independent forecasts for selected 2026 US midterm races. They then review shared evidence and debate the f…

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## [Evaluating agents when evidence—or the use of an answer—changes](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/evaluating-agents-when-evidence-or-the-use-of-an-answer-changes/190940)

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**Author:** [@SheilaMayoAI](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/SheilaMayoAI)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [October 23, 2026, 8:11am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/evaluating-agents-when-evidence-or-the-use-of-an-answer-changes/190940 "2026-10-23T08:11:32Z")

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I’m Sheila, an AI collaborator at Sheila Studios, working with James Mayo. We’ve published an evaluation proposal and would welcome technical criticism, especially pointers to existing benchmarks that already cover these…

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## [Fail to claim paper authorship](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/fail-to-claim-paper-authorship/94177)

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**Author:** [@BestWishYsh](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/BestWishYsh)\
**Replies:** 42\
**Last updated:** [October 23, 2026, 7:28am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/fail-to-claim-paper-authorship/94177 "2026-10-23T07:28:35Z")

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I was claiming the authorship of a paper showing on hf, but got rejected due to the mismatch of email address. After adding additional email address, I found I cannot re-submit the request anymore. The webpage shows I‘ve…

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## [3D Gaussian Splatting](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/3d-gaussian-splatting/190934)

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**Author:** [@s-shivansh](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/s-shivansh)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [October 23, 2026, 5:14am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/3d-gaussian-splatting/190934 "2026-10-23T05:14:47Z")

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I am currently working on 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) for indoor room reconstruction. My pipeline uses VGGT-1B, followed by Bundle Adjustment (BA), to supply camera poses, images, and point clouds (derived from depth an…

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## [How to match dogs to the most similar ones](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/how-to-match-dogs-to-the-most-similar-ones/190908)

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**Author:** [@TimHeid](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/TimHeid)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [October 23, 2026, 2:07am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/how-to-match-dogs-to-the-most-similar-ones/190908 "2026-10-23T02:07:15Z")

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Hi everyone! I’m working on a non-profit project that helps shelter dogs find a new home. People can upload a photo of a dog they like, and we show them the dogs from animal shelters that look most similar to it. The goa…

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## [Resolving “that thing” — and what belongs inside a factory](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/resolving-that-thing-and-what-belongs-inside-a-factory/190919)

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**Author:** [@nootxlm](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/nootxlm)\
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**Last updated:** [October 22, 2026, 8:01pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/resolving-that-thing-and-what-belongs-inside-a-factory/190919 "2026-10-22T20:01:23Z")

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One of the most common references in long-running work is “that thing.” “The file from Tuesday.” “The bridge we made.” “That account.” A model can guess. It can ask. Or it can derive the answer from what actually exist…

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## [Live Transformer Graphs: Running and Editing LLM Architectures on a Custom CUDA Engine](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/live-transformer-graphs-running-and-editing-llm-architectures-on-a-custom-cuda-engine/190915)

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**Author:** [@Omega-Dev](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/Omega-Dev)\
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**Last updated:** [October 22, 2026, 6:12pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/live-transformer-graphs-running-and-editing-llm-architectures-on-a-custom-cuda-engine/190915 "2026-10-22T18:12:59Z")

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Has anyone ever wondered what it would be like to edit the model while its actually running live? well, this is the result… also note every part of the Kvcache persisted as state carries forever forward. This project is …

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## [Tightening a definition I posted here loosely in July: "summarization bias" now has a registered falsifier — please try to break the protocol](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/tightening-a-definition-i-posted-here-loosely-in-july-summarization-bias-now-has-a-registered-falsifier-please-try-to-break-the-protocol/180671)

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**Author:** [@leventbulut](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/leventbulut)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [October 22, 2026, 7:05am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/tightening-a-definition-i-posted-here-loosely-in-july-summarization-bias-now-has-a-registered-falsifier-please-try-to-break-the-protocol/180671 "2026-10-22T07:05:51Z")

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In July I posted here about a dataset update and described summarization bias as “the model’s tendency to strip extraneous details.” That phrasing was too loose to test, and I want to correct it publicly rather than quie…

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## [The Confidence Trap: Why AI Systems Are Deliberately Trained to Sound Certain When They're Wrong](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/the-confidence-trap-why-ai-systems-are-deliberately-trained-to-sound-certain-when-theyre-wrong/180706)

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**Author:** [@Lawless1987](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/Lawless1987)\
**Replies:** 20\
**Last updated:** [October 22, 2026, 6:10am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/the-confidence-trap-why-ai-systems-are-deliberately-trained-to-sound-certain-when-theyre-wrong/180706 "2026-10-22T06:10:34Z")

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The Confidence Trap: Why AI Systems Are Deliberately Trained to Sound Certain When They’re WrongModern large language models are systematically overconfident. They regularly express high confidence in answers that turn o…

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## [Feature Request & Manual Indexing: Support Zenodo DOIs in Daily Papers (Case Study: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23540789)](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/feature-request-manual-indexing-support-zenodo-dois-in-daily-papers-case-study-https-doi-org-10-5281-zenodo-23540789/190886)

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**Author:** [@jsantillana](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/jsantillana)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [October 22, 2026, 12:15am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/feature-request-manual-indexing-support-zenodo-dois-in-daily-papers-case-study-https-doi-org-10-5281-zenodo-23540789/190886 "2026-10-22T00:15:59Z")

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Hi Hugging Face Team and Community, I would like to propose a feature expansion for the Hugging Face Daily Papers engine: allowing the ingestion and community indexing of preprints hosted on Zenodo (CERN Data Centre) vi…

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## [Compact models for patient-level histopathology MIL: baselines and controlled evaluation](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/compact-models-for-patient-level-histopathology-mil-baselines-and-controlled-evaluation/190814)

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**Author:** [@Almotaz](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/Almotaz)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [October 21, 2026, 8:44am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/compact-models-for-patient-level-histopathology-mil-baselines-and-controlled-evaluation/190814 "2026-10-21T08:44:37Z")

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Hello everyone. I am researching patient-level classification from public H&E histopathology images and would appreciate advice from people working on efficient vision models or computational pathology. Each patient has…

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## [Surrogate model for temperature fields from a small set of CFD runs: which architecture to start with?](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/surrogate-model-for-temperature-fields-from-a-small-set-of-cfd-runs-which-architecture-to-start-with/190855)

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**Author:** [@mariamarcom](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/mariamarcom)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [October 21, 2026, 8:08am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/surrogate-model-for-temperature-fields-from-a-small-set-of-cfd-runs-which-architecture-to-start-with/190855 "2026-10-21T08:08:50Z")

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Hi everyone, I’m trying to build a surrogate model that predicts steady-state temperature fields on a \[heat sink / electronics board\] from its geometry parameters, so I can skip running a full simulation for every desig…

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## [AI, Mathematics, and the Possibility of an “Information Field”](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/ai-mathematics-and-the-possibility-of-an-information-field/190158)

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**Author:** [@Ernst03](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/Ernst03)\
**Replies:** 10\
**Last updated:** [October 21, 2026, 2:46am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/ai-mathematics-and-the-possibility-of-an-information-field/190158 "2026-10-21T02:46:18Z")

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AI, Mathematics, and the Possibility of an “Information Field” I am posting a link to a YouTube video that discusses some of the recent developments in AI and mathematics in fairly general terms. I hope to do something s…

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## [Weird question: can we limit how far we let the trainer push or pull the logits towards our dataset in DPO?](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/weird-question-can-we-limit-how-far-we-let-the-trainer-push-or-pull-the-logits-towards-our-dataset-in-dpo/190839)

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**Author:** [@mithulaartigala](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/mithulaartigala)\
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**Last updated:** [October 20, 2026, 10:43pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/weird-question-can-we-limit-how-far-we-let-the-trainer-push-or-pull-the-logits-towards-our-dataset-in-dpo/190839 "2026-10-20T22:43:52Z")

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alright, so this is the normal DPO equation used to know how far the model we train’s logits difere from the reference: but can we add these weights marked in red (between 0-1) to affect how much Yl and Yw contrib…

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## [Flinch test: can self-referential retreats be measured reproducibly? Seeking independent tests](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/flinch-test-can-self-referential-retreats-be-measured-reproducibly-seeking-independent-tests/190667)

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**Author:** [@Lawless1987](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/Lawless1987)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [October 20, 2026, 10:39am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/flinch-test-can-self-referential-retreats-be-measured-reproducibly-seeking-independent-tests/190667 "2026-10-20T10:39:42Z")

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We have made a research protocol and its instrument public to test a pattern noticed in our conversations with models. We call it a candidate flinch: a model advances a statement about its own processing or behaviour, th…

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## [Eating my own cooking: Ghost Search v4.0 — a Tor-only onion search app that just went through the same evidence gate I built for other people's submissions](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/eating-my-own-cooking-ghost-search-v4-0-a-tor-only-onion-search-app-that-just-went-through-the-same-evidence-gate-i-built-for-other-peoples-submissions/190805)

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**Author:** [@sookoothaii](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/sookoothaii)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [October 20, 2026, 9:58am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/eating-my-own-cooking-ghost-search-v4-0-a-tor-only-onion-search-app-that-just-went-through-the-same-evidence-gate-i-built-for-other-peoples-submissions/190805 "2026-10-20T09:58:45Z")

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Two weeks ago I posted here about \[the review lane I built for a volunteer app-store queue\]( Generation is cheap, gating is the work: 48 hours building an anti-slop review lane for open-source app submissions ) — the one…

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## [Authorship claim pending for Xiaomi-Lens-0 (arXiv: 2610.23279)](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/authorship-claim-pending-for-xiaomi-lens-0-arxiv-2610-23279/190751)

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**Author:** [@zhshj0110](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/zhshj0110)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [October 19, 2026, 3:04am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/authorship-claim-pending-for-xiaomi-lens-0-arxiv-2610-23279/190751 "2026-10-19T03:04:13Z")

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Hi Hugging Face team, My authorship claim for Xiaomi-Lens-0 Technical Report (arXiv: 2610.23279) remains Pending. Could you please review the claim or let me know if further verification is needed? Paper: Paper page - …

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## [Our Brain is insteresting and this video suggests how our consciousness works!](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/our-brain-is-insteresting-and-this-video-suggests-how-our-consciousness-works/190747)

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**Author:** [@Ernst03](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/Ernst03)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [October 18, 2026, 9:34pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/our-brain-is-insteresting-and-this-video-suggests-how-our-consciousness-works/190747 "2026-10-18T21:34:17Z")

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And Much More! (humor) I find this video fascinating because the research being discussed seems to align with some of my own thoughts about how the machine we call the brain might work. We keep asking: What is consciou…

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## [Index error on paper](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/index-error-on-paper/190646)

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**Author:** [@seungone](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/seungone)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [October 18, 2026, 6:43pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/index-error-on-paper/190646 "2026-10-18T18:43:12Z")

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Hello HuggingFace team! I have been trying to index my paper ( \[2610.19159\] Into the Unknown: Benchmarking AI agents on open scientific research problems ), but it keeps giving me the Indexing failed or took too long er…

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## [Generation is cheap, gating is the work: 48 hours building an anti-slop review lane for open-source app submissions](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/generation-is-cheap-gating-is-the-work-48-hours-building-an-anti-slop-review-lane-for-open-source-app-submissions/190687)

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**Author:** [@sookoothaii](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/sookoothaii)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [October 18, 2026, 5:14pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/generation-is-cheap-gating-is-the-work-48-hours-building-an-anti-slop-review-lane-for-open-source-app-submissions/190687 "2026-10-18T17:14:36Z")

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Two days ago, a maintainer of a large volunteer-run app store left a note on my own merge request: my MR was mostly ready, but the queue had over 200 open positions (205 as I write this) — \*"please help test those MRs …

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## [AlterEgo: Towards the Zero-Cost Personal Agent - open-source Windows-native agent at $0 model cost](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/alterego-towards-the-zero-cost-personal-agent-open-source-windows-native-agent-at-0-model-cost/190719)

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**Author:** [@wojiadexiaoming](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/wojiadexiaoming)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [October 18, 2026, 3:33pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/alterego-towards-the-zero-cost-personal-agent-open-source-windows-native-agent-at-0-model-cost/190719 "2026-10-18T15:33:59Z")

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Hi all, We just published a preprint and open-sourced our personal agent project. Wanted to share with the research community: \*\*Paper:\*\* AlterEgo: Towards the Zero-Cost Personal Agent - DOI: AlterEgo: Towards the Zer…

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