ShapeMol

Closed weights Ohio State University 2.7M parameters August 2023

No estimate

No hardware requirements for this model

The weights for this model have not been published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any size. It is reachable only through its provider, and no graphics card changes that.

On record

Full specification

Everything on record for this model. Most of it describes how it was trained rather than how it runs — useful context for judging how much work went into it, and how it compares with models built at a different scale.

Origin

Who built this model, where, and when it was published.

Organisation
Ohio State University
Country
United States of America
Published
23 August 2023
Authors
Ziqi Chen, Bo Peng, Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Xia Ning

What it does

The problem areas the model was built for. A model can carry several of each.

Domain
Biology
Task
Drug discovery

Size

How large the model is and how much data it was trained on. Parameters are the figure that decides whether it fits on a given graphics card.

Parameters
2.7M
Training data
tokens

1. Training dataset: 1,593,653 molecules

Training compute

The arithmetic performed to train the model, measured in floating-point operations. It is a measure of what the training run cost, not of how fast the finished model answers you.

Training compute
2.6 × 10¹⁹ FLOP

1. Hardware: 1x Tesla V100 PCIe 32GB (1.30×10¹⁴ FLOP/s) 2. Training duration: directly provided - 140 hours total (80h Shape Encoder + 60h Diffusion Model) = 504,000 seconds 3. Utilization: 40% 4. Calculation: 1.30×10¹⁴ FLOP/s × 1 GPU × 504,000s × 0.4 = 2.60×10¹⁹ FLOPs

How it was established
Hardware

The training run

What it physically took to train: which chips, how many, for how long, and what that drew from the wall.

Training hardware
NVIDIA V100
Chips used
1
Wall-clock time
140 hours
Power draw
328 W

How it is classified

Labels the source dataset applies when tracking notable models, and how confident it is in the entry.

Record confidence
Confident
Citations
18

Sources

Where this record came from and when it was last checked.

Reference
Shape-conditioned 3D Molecule Generation via Equivariant Diffusion Models
Last updated
25 May 2026

What the numbers mean

Background

ShapeMol was published by Ohio State University, in United States of America, in August 2023.

It works in Biology, and is recorded as doing drug discovery.

This is a closed model: the trained values stayed with whoever produced them, and there is no local version to run.

What went into building it

Producing it required around 2.6 × 10¹⁹ FLOP of arithmetic, on NVIDIA V100, which is a statement about the training budget rather than about inference.

Answers

ShapeMol — common questions

01

What is ShapeMol used for?

ShapeMol works in Biology, and is recorded as handling drug discovery. These are the areas it was designed around; they describe intent rather than a hard boundary.

02

How much compute was used to train ShapeMol?

Around 2.6 × 10¹⁹ FLOP, on NVIDIA V100. That measures what producing the model cost and says nothing about how quickly it answers once trained — inference speed comes from memory bandwidth, not from the training budget.

03

What GPU do I need to run ShapeMol?

None. ShapeMol is a closed model — its weights were never published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any price. It is reachable only through its provider.

04

Is ShapeMol open source?

The licensing for ShapeMol was never recorded in our source data. We treat unstated licensing as closed, because an unrecorded licence is not one to rely on.

05

How many parameters does ShapeMol have?

ShapeMol has 2.7M parameters. That figure is the total, and it is what decides how much memory the model needs — roughly half a gigabyte per billion at the compression most people use.

06

Who created ShapeMol?

ShapeMol was published by Ohio State University, based in United States of America.

07

When was ShapeMol released?

ShapeMol was published in August 2023. Capability per parameter has improved considerably since, so a newer model of the same size is often the better use of the same hardware.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 25 May 2026

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