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Conformer + Wav2vec 2.0 + Noisy Student

Training compute
7.6×10²¹ FLOP
Parameters
1B
Published
Oct 20, 2020

Conformer + Wav2vec 2.0 + Noisy Student is an AI model developed by Google, Google Research and Google Brain (United States), first published in October 2020. It works in the speech domain, on tasks such as speech recognition (asr).

Training it took an estimated 7.6×10²¹ FLOP of compute (estimation method: hardware). The model has 1,000,000,000 parameters. Training ran on 256 Google TPU v3 for about 168 hours. The compute alone is estimated at $9K in 2023 dollars.

Access: Unreleased. Its weights are not openly released. The reference paper has 332 citations. Epoch AI rates the confidence of this record as confident.

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Organization
Google, Google Research, Google Brain
Country of organization
United States
Domain
Speech
Task
Speech recognition (ASR)
Training compute
7.6×10²¹ FLOP
Compute estimation method
Hardware
Parameters
1,000,000,000
Training hardware
Google TPU v3
Chips used
256
Training time
168 h
Training power draw
234.3 kW
Training cost (2023 USD)
$9K
Model accessibility
Unreleased
Open weights
No
Citations
332
Epoch confidence
Confident
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