Weekday Hugging Face paper briefing for your ML team

Every weekday at 7am, pull the day's curated papers from Hugging Face using Get Daily Papers. For each paper, keep the title, the authors, the abstract, and the upvote count.

Then filter down to the topics my ML team actually works on. The topic list is retrieval, evaluation, efficient inference, and agents. Treat this list as the main setting to edit: keep it in one obvious place, because it is the thing I will tune most often. Drop every paper that does not fit one of these topics, and never pad the briefing to reach a certain length. A short briefing is a good briefing. Some days only two or three papers survive the filter, and that is the correct outcome.

For every paper I keep, write a two sentence plain English summary. The first sentence says what is actually new. The second says why a practitioner should care, meaning what specifically changes for someone building with this. Tag each paper with the topic it matched. Keep the register practitioner focused rather than academic: do not restate the abstract in fancier words, and skip benchmark tables unless a particular number is the whole point of the paper.

Create a dated Notion page with Create a Page holding the full briefing, so the archive becomes searchable over time. Put the date in the page title so the pages sort and scan cleanly, and file every briefing under the same parent page. The Notion page holds every paper that passed the filter, grouped by topic tag, each with its title, authors, upvote count, my two sentence summary, and a link to the paper on Hugging Face.

Then post the top three papers by upvote count to Slack with Send a Message, sending as the bot so the briefing keeps running regardless of who set it up. Each of the three gets its title, its topic tag, its upvote count, and its two sentence summary. Close the message with a link to the Notion page so the team can read the rest there.

If no papers clear the topic filter on a given day, still create the Notion page noting that nothing matched, and post a single short line to Slack saying there is nothing relevant today. I would rather see an honest quiet day than an empty or padded briefing.