CLUE

Closed weights Naver Clova,Naver AI Lab 160M parameters November 2022

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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

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Origin

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

Organisation
Naver Clova,Naver AI Lab
Organisation type
Industry,Industry
Country
Korea (Republic of)
Published
22 November 2022
Authors
Kyuyong Shin, Hanock Kwak, Su Young Kim, Max Nihlen Ramstrom, Jisu Jeong, Jung-Woo Ha, Kyung-Min Kim

What it does

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

Domain
Recommendation
Task
Recommender system

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
160M

160m

Training data
tokens

Pre-training: We construct a sufficiently large-scale dataset with more than 50B (50741643225) behavior tokens collected over 2 years from search engine and e-commerce platform. Number of behavior tokens 50,741,643,225 (Appendix 1) Downstream: Books: We collect 1,298,489 review logs of 100,000 unique users and 504,572 unique books. Clothing: We collect 928,598 review logs of 100,000 unique users and 314,943 unique clothing, shoes, and jewelry. 50741643225+1298489+928598=50743870312

Epochs
8
Batch size
256

CLUE is trained with 160M parameters, sequence length (128), and batch size (256).

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
3.5 × 10¹⁸ FLOP

using graph reader on Figure 2 b for the upper right point: 0.04 PF-days * 10^15 FLOPS/s* 3600s*24h=3456000000000000000 counting operations: =160000000.00*50743870312*6=4.871411549952 × 10^19 "The computation (PF-days) is calculated as 6 × # of parameters × batch size × # of training steps × sequence length divided by one PF-day = 8.64 × 10^19. We train all models for 100,000 steps."

How it was established
Reported,Operation counting

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
64
Wall-clock time
168 hours (7 days)

We shuffle the dataset at every epoch and train the model for 8 epochs, where the transfer performance begins to plateau. The total training time takes 7 days on 64 V100 GPUs.

Power draw
38.4 kW

How it is classified

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

Record confidence
Likely

Sources

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

Reference
Scaling Law for Recommendation Models: Towards General-purpose User Representations
Last updated
28 November 2025

What the numbers mean

Where it came from

CLUE was published by Naver Clova,Naver AI Lab, in Korea (Republic of), in November 2022. The organisation is categorised as industry,Industry.

It works in Recommendation, and is recorded as doing recommender system.

Because the weights are not available, none of the hardware figures elsewhere on this site apply to it.

Training and provenance

Producing it required around 3.5 × 10¹⁸ FLOP of arithmetic, on NVIDIA V100, which is a statement about the training budget rather than about inference.

Answers

CLUE — common questions

01

What GPU do I need to run CLUE?

None. CLUE 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.

02

Is CLUE open source?

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

03

How many parameters does CLUE have?

CLUE has 160M parameters. 160m. 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.

04

Who created CLUE?

CLUE was published by Naver Clova,Naver AI Lab, based in Korea (Republic of), categorised as industry,Industry.

05

When was CLUE released?

CLUE was published in November 2022. Capability per parameter has improved considerably since, so a newer model of the same size is often the better use of the same hardware.

06

What is CLUE used for?

CLUE works in Recommendation, and is recorded as handling recommender system. Models frequently carry more than one of each, and the tags describe purpose rather than capability limits.

07

How much compute was used to train CLUE?

Around 3.5 × 10¹⁸ 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.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 28 November 2025

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