How Hugging Face Inference Endpoints, Jobs, and Buckets Power Search on Papers with Code

This post details how Hugging Face Inference Endpoints, Jobs, and Buckets are used to power the search functionality on Papers with Code. It highlights the technical architecture and infrastructure choices made to scale the search system, including the use of specific models like Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B for feature extraction. The post emphasizes the interplay between these Hugging Face services for building and operating a complex, data-intensive application.