An Empirical Study of Perceptions of General LLMs and Multimodal LLMs on Hugging Face

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.05782v1
• Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:19:27 GMT
• Title: An Empirical Study of Perceptions of General LLMs and Multimodal LLMs on Hugging Face
• Abstract summary: We study user discussions on Hugging Face, a major model hub with diverse models and active communities.<n>Our analysis reveals that LLM access barriers, generation quality, and deployment and invocation complexity are the most prominent concerns.
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• Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have rapidly evolved from general-purpose systems to multimodal models capable of processing text, images, and audio. As both general-purpose LLMs (GLLMs) and multimodal LLMs (MLLMs) gain widespread adoption, understanding user perceptions in real-world settings becomes increasingly important. However, existing studies often rely on surveys or platform-specific data (e.g., Reddit or GitHub issues), which either constrain user feedback through predefined questions or overemphasize failure-driven, debugging-oriented discussions, thus failing to capture diverse, experience-driven, and cross-model user perspectives in practice. To address this issue, we conduct an empirical study of user discussions on Hugging Face, a major model hub with diverse models and active communities. We collect and manually annotate 662 discussion threads from 38 representative models (21 GLLMs and 17 MLLMs), and develop a three-level taxonomy to systematically characterize user concerns. Our analysis reveals that LLM access barriers, generation quality, and deployment and invocation complexity are the most prominent concerns, alongside issues such as documentation limitations and resource constraints. Based on these findings, we derive actionable implications for improving LLM ecosystem.

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