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Very Deep VAEs (ImageNet-64)

Training compute
1.8×10²¹ FLOP
Parameters
125M
Published
Mar 16, 2021

Very Deep VAEs (ImageNet-64) is an AI model developed by OpenAI (United States), first published in March 2021. It works in the image generation domain, on tasks such as image generation and image representation.

Training it took an estimated 1.8×10²¹ FLOP of compute (estimation method: hardware). The model has 125,000,000 parameters. Training ran on 32 NVIDIA V100 for about 420 hours.

Access: Open weights (unrestricted). Its weights are openly available. Epoch AI rates the confidence of this record as confident.

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Organization
OpenAI
Country of organization
United States
Domain
Image generation
Task
Image generation, Image representation
Training compute
1.8×10²¹ FLOP
Compute estimation method
Hardware
Parameters
125,000,000
Training hardware
NVIDIA V100
Chips used
32
Training time
420 h
Training power draw
19.5 kW
Model accessibility
Open weights (unrestricted)
Open weights
Yes
Epoch confidence
Confident
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