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Transformer-C

Training compute
1.9×10¹⁸ FLOP
Parameters
148M
Published
Apr 8, 2021

Transformer-C is an AI model developed by University of Massachusetts Amherst (United States), first published in April 2021. It works in the language domain, on tasks such as language modeling.

Training it took an estimated 1.9×10¹⁸ FLOP of compute (estimation method: operation counting,hardware). The model has 148,000,000 parameters. It was trained on roughly 103M datapoints. Training ran on 4 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti for about 40 hours.

Access: Unreleased. Its weights are not openly released. The reference paper has 16 citations. Epoch AI rates the confidence of this record as confident.

Full record
Organization
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Country of organization
United States
Domain
Language
Task
Language modeling
Training compute
1.9×10¹⁸ FLOP
Compute estimation method
Operation counting, Hardware
Parameters
148,000,000
Dataset size
103M
Training hardware
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
Chips used
4
Training time
40 h
Training power draw
2.0 kW
Model accessibility
Unreleased
Open weights
No
Citations
16
Epoch confidence
Confident
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