Benchmarking Recommendation, Classification, and Tracing Based on Hugging Face Knowledge Graph

The rapid growth of open source machine learning (ML) resources, such as models and datasets, has accelerated IR research. However, existing platforms like Hugging Face do not explicitly utilize structured representations, limiting advanced queries and analyses such as tracing model evolution and recommending relevant datasets. To fill the gap, we construct HuggingKG, the first large-scale knowledge graph built from the Hugging Face community for ML resource management. With 2.6 million nodes and 6.2 million edges, HuggingKG captures domain-specific relations and rich textual attributes. It enables us to further present HuggingBench, a multi-task benchmark with three novel test collections for IR tasks including resource recommendation, classification, and tracing. Our experiments reveal unique characteristics of HuggingKG and the derived tasks. Both resources are publicly available, expected to advance research in open source resource sharing and management.

@article{chen2025_2505.17507,
  title={ Benchmarking Recommendation, Classification, and Tracing Based on Hugging Face Knowledge Graph },
  author={ Qiaosheng Chen and Kaijia Huang and Xiao Zhou and Weiqing Luo and Yuanning Cui and Gong Cheng },
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.17507},
  year={ 2025 }
}