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Transformer local-attention (NesT-B)

Training compute
2.4×10¹⁹ FLOP
Parameters
90.1M
Published
May 26, 2021

Transformer local-attention (NesT-B) is an AI model developed by Google Cloud and Google Research (United States), first published in May 2021. It works in the vision domain, on tasks such as image classification and image generation.

Training it took an estimated 2.4×10¹⁹ FLOP of compute (estimation method: operation counting). The model has 90,100,000 parameters. It was trained on roughly 1.3M datapoints.

Access: Open weights (unrestricted). Its weights are openly available. The reference paper has 5,734 citations. Epoch AI rates the confidence of this record as confident.

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Organization
Google Cloud, Google Research
Country of organization
United States
Domain
Vision
Task
Image classification, Image generation
Training compute
2.4×10¹⁹ FLOP
Compute estimation method
Operation counting
Parameters
90,100,000
Dataset size
1.3M
Model accessibility
Open weights (unrestricted)
Open weights
Yes
Citations
5,734
Epoch confidence
Confident
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