Hugging Face Daily Digest Oct 28, 2026

The Hub is moving on small models and long documents today. LiquidAI’s LFM3-1.7B enters the default trending list after a blog post late yesterday. Baidu’s Unlimited-OCR-2 climbs to number 13 with a release log dated 2026/10/27. Tencent’s Hy-Nomas lands on the Daily Papers stack with Apache weights around 183 GiB. The papers rotation is fresh, with ChronoReplay leading upvotes and NVIDIA ThinkWorld showing up with no linked weights.

On the Hub

LiquidAI LFM3-1.7B

LiquidAI posted Build specialized multimodal models with LFM3 on 2026-10-27 at 17:16Z.¹ The post describes a tri-hybrid family in the 2B range with text, vision, audio, omni and decision variants. The text card LiquidAI/LFM3-1.7B entered default trending at number 16.² It is a 1.73B parameter model with 256K context and LFM Open License v1.0, not Apache. The README notes it is not recommended for agentic coding or complex multi-step reasoning, and the official GGUF card shows a Q4_K_M quant at 1.024 GiB.³

Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2

Baidu/Unlimited-OCR-2 is now default number 13.⁴ The card is MIT licensed with 3.34B parameters. The README release log is dated 2026/10/27. The model is described as unlimited-horizon parsing with SR-SWA attention. No official GGUF is published, and the card was updated on 2026-10-27 at 13:35Z.

Tencent Hy-Nomas

Hy-Nomas appears on Daily Papers for 2026-10-28.⁵ The paper is from Tencent Hunyuan and links to tencent/Hy-Nomas.⁶ The weights card is Apache-2.0 and was last modified on 2026-10-28 at 06:28Z. Used storage is about 183 GiB. The repo describes a video world model with causal attention and structured captions for multi-turn text and camera instructions.

Daily Papers rotation

Thirty-five of fifty Daily Papers wrappers are dated 2026-10-28. ChronoReplay is the highest upvoted paper on the new slice with 131 upvotes and no linked models.⁷ The paper is from LINs lab and the Hub search shows an unlinked mis2/ChronoReplay-8B card with zero likes. NVIDIA ThinkWorld is on the stack with 42 upvotes and no linked weights.⁸ StreamVibe, Trajectory2Gym and InteractiveWorld are absent from today’s 50.