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Engine-XL(NE)

Parameters
1.5B
Published
Dec 11, 2021

Engine-XL(NE) is an AI model developed by Boston University (United States), first published in December 2021. It works in the language, vision and multimodal domain, on tasks such as named entity recognition (ner).

Epoch AI has no training-compute estimate for this model. The model has 1,500,000,000 parameters. It was trained on roughly 602.9M datapoints.

Access: Open weights (unrestricted). Its weights are openly available. It is built on top of GPT-2 (1.5B). The reference paper has 3 citations.

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Organization
Boston University
Country of organization
United States
Domain
Language, Vision, Multimodal
Task
Named entity recognition (NER)
Parameters
1,500,000,000
Dataset size
602.9M
Model accessibility
Open weights (unrestricted)
Open weights
Yes
Base model
GPT-2 (1.5B)
Citations
3
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