diff --git a/docs/source/conf.py b/docs/source/conf.py
index 3f116bd77d3..31ba5d1b81a 100644
--- a/docs/source/conf.py
+++ b/docs/source/conf.py
@@ -428,6 +428,9 @@ def _get_version_str():
 # skip false positive linkcheck errors from anchors
 linkcheck_anchors = False
 
+# A timeout value, in seconds, for the linkcheck builder.
+linkcheck_timeout = 10
+
 # ignore all links in any CHANGELOG file
 linkcheck_exclude_documents = [r"^(.*\/)*CHANGELOG.*$"]
 
diff --git a/docs/source/links.rst b/docs/source/links.rst
index 8c8dc593fe3..b2ffc6768c7 100644
--- a/docs/source/links.rst
+++ b/docs/source/links.rst
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 .. _Mean-Average-Precision (mAP) and Mean-Average-Recall (mAR): https://jonathan-hui.medium.com/map-mean-average-precision-for-object-detection-45c121a31173
 .. _Tweedie Deviance Score: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweedie_distribution#The_Tweedie_deviance
 .. _Permutation Invariant Training of Deep Models: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7952154
-.. _Top-label Calibration Error: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.10155.pdf
+.. _Top-label Calibration Error: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.10155
 .. _Gradient Computation of Image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_gradient
 .. _R2 Score_Coefficient Determination: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coefficient_of_determination
 .. _Rank of element tensor: https://github.com/scipy/scipy/blob/v1.6.2/scipy/stats/stats.py#L4140-L4303
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@
 .. _Python ROUGE Implementation: https://pypi.org/project/rouge-score/
 .. _Scikit_Learn-Ranking.py: https: //github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/blob/master/sklearn/metrics/_ranking.py
 .. _Verified Uncertainty Calibration: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.10155
-.. _SQuAD Metric: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.05250.pdf
+.. _SQuAD Metric: https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.05250
 .. _chrF score: https://aclanthology.org/W15-3049.pdf
 .. _chrF++ score: https://aclanthology.org/W17-4770.pdf
 .. _TER: https://aclanthology.org/2006.amta-papers.25.pdf
@@ -91,19 +91,19 @@
 .. _WIL: https://www.isca-speech.org/archive/interspeech_2004/morris04_interspeech.html
 .. _WIP: https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/82766
 .. _TV: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_variation_denoising
-.. _InfoLM: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.01589.pdf
+.. _InfoLM: https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.01589
 .. _alpha divergence: https://static.renyi.hu/renyi_cikkek/1961_on_measures_of_entropy_and_information.pdf
 .. _beta divergence: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047259X08000456
 .. _AB divergence: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/744b/1166de34cb099100f151f3b1459f141ae25b.pdf
 .. _Rényi divergence: https://static.renyi.hu/renyi_cikkek/1961_on_measures_of_entropy_and_information.pdf
-.. _Fisher-Rao distance: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1711.01530.pdf
+.. _Fisher-Rao distance: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.01530
 .. _Cramer's V: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cram%C3%A9r%27s_V
 .. _Kendall Rank Correlation Coefficient: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kendall_rank_correlation_coefficient
 .. _The Treatment of Ties in Ranking Problems: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2332303
-.. _LogCosh Error: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2101.10427.pdf
+.. _LogCosh Error: https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.10427
 .. _Tschuprow's T: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tschuprow%27s_T
 .. _Pearson's Contingency Coefficient: https://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/software/dataplot/refman2/auxillar/pearcont.htm
-.. _CLIP score: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.08718.pdf
+.. _CLIP score: https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.08718
 .. _Huggingface OpenAI: https://huggingface.co/openai
 .. _Theils Uncertainty coefficient: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_coefficient
 .. _Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptual_Evaluation_of_Speech_Quality
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@
 .. _VIF: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/1576816
 .. _CLIP-IQA: https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.12396
 .. _CLIP: https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.00020
-.. _PPL : https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.04948
+.. _PPL : https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.04948
 .. _CIOU: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.03572
 .. _DIOU: https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.08287v1
 .. _GIOU: https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.09630