For academia/industry, do HuggingFace model downloads mean anything for academic job market? [D]

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I am applying to academic jobs. We are told to include a section on "impact". I am wondering if the total number of HuggingFace downloads of custom models I have trained would be considered legit impact, or if people would think this was all bots. Relatedly, for industry (AI labs), is the number of HuggingFace model downloads meaningful? submitted by /u/arc_in_tangent [link] [comments]