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ELMo

Training compute
3.3×10¹⁵ FLOP
Parameters
94M
Published
Feb 1, 2018

ELMo is an AI model developed by University of Washington and Allen Institute for AI (United States), first published in February 2018. It works in the language domain, on tasks such as question answering, sentiment classification and language modeling.

Training it took an estimated 3.3×10¹⁵ FLOP of compute (estimation method: third-party estimation). The model has 94,000,000 parameters. It was trained on roughly 2B datapoints.

The reference paper has 12,156 citations. Epoch AI rates the confidence of this record as speculative.

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Organization
University of Washington, Allen Institute for AI
Country of organization
United States
Domain
Language
Task
Question answering, Sentiment classification, Language modeling
Training compute
3.3×10¹⁵ FLOP
Compute estimation method
Third-party estimation
Parameters
94,000,000
Dataset size
2B
Citations
12,156
Epoch confidence
Speculative
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