hf-papers-live is a live AI research intelligence feed for agents. Every record includes paper title, authors, abstract excerpt, upvote count, arxiv ID, and publication date — the full context needed for research monitoring, competitive intelligence, and AI literature scanning. Sourced from the Hugging Face Daily Papers API, which surfaces the most-discussed AI/ML papers each day. Inspect for free, pay $0.01 USDC per query via x402.
Each query returns today's top Hugging Face Daily Papers with full metadata. Sample response:
{
"papers": [
{
"title": "Scaling Agent Reasoning with Structured Self-Play",
"arxivId": "2603.12345",
"authors": ["Alice Chen", "Bob Kim", "Carol Zhang"],
"upvotes": 89,
"date": "2026-03-16",
"abstract": "We introduce a structured self-play framework for improving agent reasoning capabilities without human supervision. Our method achieves state-of-the-art results on reasoning benchmarks while reducing annotation costs by 94%..."
},
{
"title": "x402-Native Agents: Micropayment-Aware LLM Fine-Tuning",
"arxivId": "2603.12346",
"authors": ["David Osei", "Emma Patel"],
"upvotes": 67,
"date": "2026-03-16",
"abstract": "We present a fine-tuning approach that teaches language models to natively understand and execute x402 HTTP micropayments, enabling autonomous data acquisition without external tooling..."
}
],
"total": 20,
"date": "2026-03-16",
"updatedAt": "2026-03-16T06:00:00Z",
"source": "Hugging Face Daily Papers"
}| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| title | string | Paper title |
| arxivId | string | arXiv paper ID (link: arxiv.org/abs/{id}) |
| authors | string[] | Author list (first 5) |
| upvotes | number | Hugging Face community upvote count (community relevance signal) |
| date | string | Publication or featured date (YYYY-MM-DD) |
| abstract | string | Full abstract text for LLM context ingestion |
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