2 papers
cs.SI2026
Racing to Release: Priority, Congestion, and Community Recognition in Open-Source LLM Ecosystems
Bin Liu, Lele Kang, Jiannan Yang
Open-source large language models have made platforms such as Hugging Face central hubs for decentralized AI innovation. Yet these ecosystems are shaped not only by collaboration,…
cs.SI2026
Identifying Disruptive Models in the Open-Source LLM Community
Xiaoting Wei, Lele Kang, Xuelian Pan +1
The rapid growth of open-source large language models (LLMs) has created a complex ecosystem of model inheritance and reuse. However, existing research has focused mainly on descri…