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Re: Reviving Papers with Code

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Post by cyril_st_john »

nielz_r wrote: post #2

Hi, Niels here from the open-source team at Hugging Face. Like many others, I was a huge fan of paperswithcode, a website which allowed to easily find the state-of-the-art (SOTA) across any domain of AI, from computer vision to language models to time-series forecasting. Sadly, that website is no longer maintained after its acquisition by Meta. Hence, I've been working on reviving it. I obviously use AI agents to par…

Any interest in expanding it beyond just AI papers? "Papers with Code" sounds like it could be much more broad than it currently is. I was excited to browse the "All Domains" section until I realized only AI topics are covered - just because so many of the papers that are relevant to my work would not fall under any of these categories.

Re: Reviving Papers with Code

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Post by quibono »

henrythewasp wrote: post #16
quibono wrote: post #14

This is a bit off-topic (though tangentially related) - does anyone remember a similar blog where the author would do something like a "5 minute paper" review, i.e. they'd discuss findings and try to communicate the main point? It was usually a paper per week, mostly CompSci / maths papers IIRC

Was it "The morning paper" by Adrian Colyer? - https://blog.acolyer.org/

Yes, exactly this! Thank you!

Re: Reviving Papers with Code

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Post by jeffreysmith »

I played a somewhat unusual role in this whole story. I was the guy who acquired in the original Papers with Code and managed them after they joined Facebook/Meta.

It was super sad to see FB/M abandon the original mission of what PwC was building towards and let the original community resource rot. During the good times, we always talked about how PwC related to HF. So, I think there is a sort poetry to PwC winding up as part of HF, where they probably always belonged. No company is perfect, but HF has been a better than average steward of open source and community resources.

For the younger folks on this thread, you probably have no real feel for just how frustratingly inefficient AI/ML research used to be before people like Robert and Ross of PwC came along to start to bring structure, sanity, and reproducibility to the information needed to work of this kind. And of course, Clem, Julien, and Thomas of HF kicked off an even bigger effort to tame the previously scattered workflow of open AI research into some sort of sane stack.

It's clear that, in 2026, what PwC could be is something much more evolved than what we were able to do back in the day. LLMs + PwC is a huge design space. I hope nielz_r and friends at HF are able to make something truly useful for the community. AI research has both gotten way easier and much harder. e.g. We have a Fable, but Anthro won't let us use it forward our science. Community resources for research are still very much needed.

Best of luck Son of PwC. May you thrive.

Re: Reviving Papers with Code

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Post by nicce »

lalaland1125 wrote: post #23

The fact that this even needs to exist means that our academic conferences aren't prioritizing the right things. Papers without code should be desk rejected.

And many of the papers in medical area are published with closed data because collecting that data is so expensive and everyone wants to hold onto it. Nobody can verify the results. Yet they are marked as "peer reviewed".

Re: Reviving Papers with Code

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Post by addandsubtract »

nielz_r wrote: post #2

Hi, Niels here from the open-source team at Hugging Face. Like many others, I was a huge fan of paperswithcode, a website which allowed to easily find the state-of-the-art (SOTA) across any domain of AI, from computer vision to language models to time-series forecasting. Sadly, that website is no longer maintained after its acquisition by Meta. Hence, I've been working on reviving it. I obviously use AI agents to par…

> Sadly, that website is no longer maintained after its acquisition by Meta.

Wait, I thought it was aquired by Huggingface, because that's where the domain points to: https://huggingface.co/papers/trending

Anyway, as a huge fan of PWC, I'm glad to see it revived! One of the main annoyances of the old PWC was the searchability / discoverability of papers. I hope that now, you can create embeddings of the paper (summaries) to improve the search and make finding related papers easier.

Re: Reviving Papers with Code

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Post by addandsubtract »

quibono wrote: post #14

This is a bit off-topic (though tangentially related) - does anyone remember a similar blog where the author would do something like a "5 minute paper" review, i.e. they'd discuss findings and try to communicate the main point? It was usually a paper per week, mostly CompSci / maths papers IIRC

There is/was also 2-minute papers[0], but the videos lost their plot a couple of years ago.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/@TwoMinutePapers

Re: Reviving Papers with Code

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Post by abidlabs »

caldarons wrote: post #4
nielz_r wrote: post #2

Hi, Niels here from the open-source team at Hugging Face. Like many others, I was a huge fan of paperswithcode, a website which allowed to easily find the state-of-the-art (SOTA) across any domain of AI, from computer vision to language models to time-series forecasting. Sadly, that website is no longer maintained after its acquisition by Meta. Hence, I've been working on reviving it. I obviously use AI agents to par…

This is great work, thank you! One feature I would love is to get notified via email when new papers are added (or periodically, once a week/daily).

You could subscribe to daily papers at the top here: https://huggingface.co/papers/trending

Re: Reviving Papers with Code

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Post by peterfirefly »

jeffreysmith wrote: post #24

I played a somewhat unusual role in this whole story. I was the guy who acquired in the original Papers with Code and managed them after they joined Facebook/Meta. It was super sad to see FB/M abandon the original mission of what PwC was building towards and let the original community resource rot. During the good times, we always talked about how PwC related to HF. So, I think there is a sort poetry to PwC winding u…

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