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RankNet

Training compute
3.5×10¹² FLOP
Parameters
5.7K
Published
Aug 7, 2005

RankNet is an AI model developed by Microsoft Research and Microsoft (United States), first published in August 2005. It works in the search domain, on tasks such as search.

Training it took an estimated 3.5×10¹² FLOP of compute (estimation method: operation counting). The model has 5,711 parameters. It was trained on roughly 3.5M datapoints.

Access: Unreleased. Its weights are not openly released. Epoch AI rates the confidence of this record as confident.

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Organization
Microsoft Research, Microsoft
Country of organization
United States
Domain
Search
Task
Search
Training compute
3.5×10¹² FLOP
Compute estimation method
Operation counting
Parameters
5,711
Dataset size
3.5M
Training time
6 h
Model accessibility
Unreleased
Open weights
No
Epoch confidence
Confident
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