EGRU (WT2)

Closed weights Ruhr University Bochum,Technische Universität Dresden,University of London 74M parameters June 2022

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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
Ruhr University Bochum,Technische Universität Dresden,University of London
Organisation type
Academia,Academia,Academia
Country
Germany, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Published
13 June 2022
Authors
Anand Subramoney, Khaleelulla Khan Nazeer, Mark Schöne, Christian Mayr, David Kappel

What it does

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

Domain
Language
Task
Language modeling

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
74M

74M Table 3

Training data
2,000,000 tokens

"All EGRU models were trained for 2500 epochs" size of WT2: 2M tokens Table S6 batch size 128 seq length 67

Epochs
2,500
Batch size
8,576

128 * 67 = 8576

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
2.2 × 10¹⁸ FLOP

6 FLOP / token / parameter * 74000000 parameters * 2000000 tokens * 2500 epochs = 2.22 × 10^18 FLOP

How it was established
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 A100

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
Training code
Open source

Apache 2.0: https://github.com/Efficient-Scalable-Machine-Learning/EvNN train: https://github.com/Efficient-Scalable-Machine-Learning/EvNN/blob/main/benchmarks/lm/train.py

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
34
Benchmark data
EGRU (WT2)

Sources

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

Reference
Efficient recurrent architectures through activity sparsity and sparse back-propagation through time
Last updated
25 May 2026

What the numbers mean

Where it came from

EGRU (WT2) was published by Ruhr University Bochum,Technische Universität Dresden,University of London, in Germany, in June 2022. academia,Academia,Academia is the category the publisher falls under.

It works in Language, and is recorded as doing language modeling.

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 2.2 × 10¹⁸ FLOP of arithmetic, on NVIDIA A100, which is a statement about the training budget rather than about inference.

Around 2,000,000 tokens went into training it.

Answers

EGRU (WT2) — common questions

01

When was EGRU (WT2) released?

EGRU (WT2) was published in June 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.

02

What is EGRU (WT2) used for?

EGRU (WT2) works in Language, and is recorded as handling language modeling. Models frequently carry more than one of each, and the tags describe purpose rather than capability limits.

03

How much compute was used to train EGRU (WT2)?

Around 2.2 × 10¹⁸ FLOP, on NVIDIA A100. 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.

04

What GPU do I need to run EGRU (WT2)?

None. EGRU (WT2) 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.

05

Is EGRU (WT2) open source?

No. EGRU (WT2) has not had its weights published, so it exists only as a service controlled by its owner.

06

How many parameters does EGRU (WT2) have?

EGRU (WT2) has 74M parameters. 74M Table 3. 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.

07

Who created EGRU (WT2)?

EGRU (WT2) was published by Ruhr University Bochum,Technische Universität Dresden,University of London, based in Germany, categorised as academia,Academia,Academia.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 25 May 2026

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