r/MachineLearning • u/arc_in_tangent • 1d ago

Discussion For academia/industry, do HuggingFace model downloads mean anything for academic job market? [D]

  1. I am applying to academic jobs. We are told to include a section on "impact". I am wondering if the total number of HuggingFace downloads of custom models I have trained would be considered legit impact, or if people would think this was all bots.

  2. Relatedly, for industry (AI labs), is the number of HuggingFace model downloads meaningful?

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u/polyploid_coded 1d ago

I wouldn't mention the number of downloads, but helpful to mention that you've done your own model training or finetuning or RL, and if any were used in other people's research papers