Skip to content

r/ResearchML↗

Machine Learning Research

Share and discuss and machine learning research papers. Share papers, crossposts, summaries, and discussions of research papers. We aim for a tighter focus on discussion of research than /r/MachineLearning. Lets make it easier to drink from the firehose of research papers.

25k subscribers296 posts / mo in Sep 2026248 authors / mosince 2020

r/ResearchML has 25k members (+108% over the last 12 months). It gets about 296 posts a month from 248 people. Top topics: AI Research Papers, Research Reading Strategies and Rejected Papers & Reviews.

Free report

When to post on r/ResearchML

You've used today's free reports

Visitors without an account can open 3 subreddit reports a day. The best time to post on r/ResearchML, removal risk and the rest of the report are one step away.

Size and growth

How r/ResearchML has grown

r/ResearchML

Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+108%in 12 months · +20% in 3 months · +4.3% in 1 month
Oct 202625k
Growing25k subscribers
Data since Apr 2020Live · through Oct 2026
r/ResearchML

Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

+225%vs Sep 2025 · +49% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 2026296
BusierPeaked at 334 in Aug 2026
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/ResearchML

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. AI Research Papers5.6%
  2. Research Reading Strategies1.3%
  3. Rejected Papers & Reviews1.3%
  4. LLMs and AGI Progress0.9%
  5. Future of AI0.9%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. arXiv.org e-Print archive
  2. Doi
  3. Zenodo
  4. Hugging Face
  5. Substack

The full report

Everything else about r/ResearchML

Posting rules and account requirements, how often posts get removed, who writes here (age, gender, countries), what people ask for, how they talk, and related subreddits — all in the full report.

Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research