Hugging Face Model Downloads Reported Down 30 Percent
Nathan Lambert noted the decline on X and asked about filtering changes.
Nathan Lambert posted that nearly all models on Hugging Face saw a sustained 30 percent reduction in daily downloads beginning a few weeks ago. This lowered August forecasts on the Interconnects AI dashboard. He asked whether Hugging Face had altered its filtering. Merve Noyan replied that the data appears to show a lag and that the company is investigating. Julien Chaumond said he would check for changes. A reply suggested the drop coincides with European summer vacations.
PSA: We're seeing that a few weeks ago, pretty much all models on huggingface had an ~30% sustained reduction in daily downloads, e.g. making our august prediction on the @interconnectsai dashboard meaningfully lower. @julien_c or @huggingface did you change some filtering?
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4 posts@natolambert @interconnectsai @julien_c @huggingface Its August, all Europeans are OOO, so its kinda expected 🏝️
@natolambert @interconnectsai @huggingface Not that I know of, but I will check
@natolambert @interconnectsai @julien_c @huggingface hey Nathan, there seems to be a lag, we're currently looking into this 🤗
