life2vec

Closed weights Technical University of Denmark,University of Copenhagen 8.4M parameters June 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
Technical University of Denmark,University of Copenhagen
Organisation type
Academia,Academia
Country
Denmark
Published
5 June 2023
Authors
Germans Savcisens, Tina Eliassi-Rad, Lars Kai Hansen, Laust Mortensen, Lau Lilleholt, Anna Rogers, Ingo Zettler, Sune Lehmann

What it does

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

Domain
Medicine
Task
Mortality prediction

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
8.4M

Appendix B: 8.4m

Training data
3,252,086 tokens

The total number of residents in the filtered dataset is 3 252 086.

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
1.6 × 10¹⁴ FLOP

=6*3252086*8400000=1.639051344 × 10^14 I am not sure about datasize thus Speculative confidence level

How it was established
Operation counting

Availability

Whether you can obtain the model and run it on your own hardware, which is what decides if any of the graphics-card figures on this page apply.

Weights
Closed — provider access only
Model access
Unreleased

How it is classified

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

Record confidence
Speculative

Sources

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

Reference
Using Sequences of Life-events to Predict Human Lives
Last updated
28 November 2025

What the numbers mean

What this model is

life2vec was published by Technical University of Denmark,University of Copenhagen, in Denmark, in June 2023. It comes out of academia,Academia.

It works in Medicine, and is recorded as doing mortality prediction.

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

Training and provenance

Training it took roughly 1.6 × 10¹⁴ FLOP of computation — a measure of what producing the model cost, not of how fast it answers.

It was trained on about 3,252,086 tokens of text.

Answers

life2vec — common questions

01

How much compute was used to train life2vec?

Around 1.6 × 10¹⁴ FLOP. 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.

02

What GPU do I need to run life2vec?

None. life2vec 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.

03

Is life2vec open source?

No. life2vec has not had its weights published, so it exists only as a service controlled by its owner.

04

How many parameters does life2vec have?

life2vec has 8.4M parameters. Appendix B: 8.4m. 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.

05

Who created life2vec?

life2vec was published by Technical University of Denmark,University of Copenhagen, based in Denmark, categorised as academia,Academia.

06

When was life2vec released?

life2vec was published in June 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.

07

What is life2vec used for?

life2vec works in Medicine, and is recorded as handling mortality prediction. These are the areas it was designed around; they describe intent rather than a hard boundary.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 28 November 2025

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