B2T connection (16L)

Open weights LINE Corporation,Tohoku University June 2022

No estimate

No hardware requirements for this model

This model's weights are open, but no parameter count has been published for it. Every memory and speed figure starts from that number, so we would rather show nothing than a fabricated estimate.

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
LINE Corporation,Tohoku University
Organisation type
Industry,Academia
Country
Japan
Published
1 June 2022
Authors
Sho Takase, Shun Kiyono, Sosuke Kobayashi, Jun Suzuki

What it does

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

Domain
Language
Task
Language modeling/generation, Question answering

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.

Training data
103,000,000 tokens

"We used WikiText-103 (Merity et al., 2017), which consists of a large number of tokens. The training, validation, and test sets contain 103M, 0.2M, and 0.2M tokens, respectively" Table 6 updates: 50K tokens/GPU: 1024 GPUs (Table 7): 192 50000*1024*192/103000000 = 95 epochs

Epochs
95

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
2.8 × 10¹⁹ FLOP

192*7 GPU (P100) hours per Table 6 19 TFLOP/s 19 trillion * 192 * 7 * 3600 * 0.3 = 2.76e19 6 FLOP / parameter / token * 247000000 parameters [not sure how it was estimated] * 50000 steps * 1024 tokens / GPU * 192 GPUs = 1.4568653e+19 FLOP

How it was established
Hardware,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 P100
Chips used
192
Wall-clock time
7 hours
Power draw
96.3 kW

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
Open — downloadable
Model access
Open weights (unrestricted)
Training code
Open source

code and weights, MIT: https://github.com/takase/b2t_connection?tab=readme-ov-file

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
Benchmark data
B2T connection (16L)

Sources

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

Reference
On Layer Normalizations and Residual Connections in Transformers
Last updated
25 May 2026

What the numbers mean

Background

B2T connection (16L) was published by LINE Corporation,Tohoku University, in Japan, in June 2022. industry,Academia is the category the publisher falls under.

It works in Language, and is recorded as doing language modeling/generation, Question answering.

The weights are published, so it can be downloaded and run on your own hardware indefinitely, offline, with no account attached.

Training and provenance

The training run consumed about 2.8 × 10¹⁹ FLOP, on NVIDIA P100. That figure describes the cost of creating it and has no bearing on how quickly it generates text.

It was trained on about 103,000,000 tokens of text.

Answers

B2T connection (16L) — common questions

01

Where can I download B2T connection (16L)?

The weights for B2T connection (16L) are published, though we do not hold a repository link for it. This site calculates hardware requirements rather than hosting model files.

02

How much compute was used to train B2T connection (16L)?

Around 2.8 × 10¹⁹ FLOP, on NVIDIA P100. 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 B2T connection (16L)?

We cannot say. B2T connection (16L) has open weights, but no parameter count has been published for it, and every memory and speed calculation starts from that number. We would rather show nothing than a fabricated estimate.

04

Is B2T connection (16L) open source?

Its weights are published, so B2T connection (16L) can be downloaded and run on your own hardware. Note that open weights is not the same as open source in the full sense — it says nothing about the training data, the training code, or the commercial terms attached.

05

How many parameters does B2T connection (16L) have?

No parameter count has been published for B2T connection (16L), which is why no memory or speed figure appears on this page.

06

Who created B2T connection (16L)?

B2T connection (16L) was published by LINE Corporation,Tohoku University, based in Japan, categorised as industry,Academia.

07

When was B2T connection (16L) released?

B2T connection (16L) 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.

08

What is B2T connection (16L) used for?

B2T connection (16L) works in Language, and is recorded as handling language modeling/generation, Question answering. A model can carry several of each, so these are the areas it was built for rather than a limit on what it will attempt.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 25 May 2026

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