MemSizer (language modeling)

Closed weights Meta AI,Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) 357M parameters March 2022

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Origin

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Organisation
Meta AI,Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Organisation type
Industry,Academia
Country
United States of America, Hong Kong
Published
23 March 2022
Authors
Yizhe Zhang, Deng Cai

What it does

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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
357M

357M Table 3 "Following Kasai et al. (2021), we choose similar hyperparameters to prior work (Baevski and Auli, 2019; Fan et al., 2020): 32 layers, 8 heads, 128 head dimensions, 1024 model dimensions, 4096 fully connected dimensions and dropout (Srivastava et al., 2014) and layer dropout rates of 0.2. "

Training data
103,000,000 tokens

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
7.3 × 10¹⁸ FLOP

6 FLOP / token / parameter * 357000000 parameters * 103000000 tokens * 1 epoch [assumed for lower bound] = 2.20626e+17 FLOP also to consider: 7.3 × 10^18 FLOP SOURCE: Impute based on Baevski and Auli 2019 "We generally follow the optimization method from Baevski and Auli (2019), with a slight modification for some hyperparameters including learning rate (we use 10−4), which shows better convergence. " NOTES: Probably correct within an order of 2 or so

How it was established
Operation counting

Availability

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Weights
Closed — provider access only
Model access
Unreleased
Training code
Open (non-commercial)

code, no license: https://github.com/jcyk/memsizer wt103 train: https://github.com/jcyk/memsizer/blob/main/lm_wikitext-103.sh

How it is classified

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Record confidence
Likely
Citations
6
Benchmark data
MemSizer

Sources

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Reference
Linearizing Transformer with Key-Value Memory
Last updated
11 February 2026

What the numbers mean

What this model is

MemSizer (language modeling) was published by Meta AI,Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), in United States of America, in March 2022. It comes out of industry,Academia.

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

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 7.3 × 10¹⁸ FLOP of arithmetic, which is a statement about the training budget rather than about inference.

Around 103,000,000 tokens went into training it.

Answers

MemSizer (language modeling) — common questions

01

What is MemSizer (language modeling) used for?

MemSizer (language modeling) 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.

02

How much compute was used to train MemSizer (language modeling)?

Around 7.3 × 10¹⁸ 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.

03

What GPU do I need to run MemSizer (language modeling)?

None. MemSizer (language modeling) 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 MemSizer (language modeling) open source?

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

05

How many parameters does MemSizer (language modeling) have?

MemSizer (language modeling) has 357M parameters. 357M Table 3 "Following Kasai et al. (2021), we choose similar hyperparameters to prior work (Baevski and Auli, 2019; Fan et al., 2020): 32 layers, 8 heads, 128 head dimensions, 1024 model dimensions, 4096 fully connected dimensions and dropout (Srivastava et al., 2014) and layer dropout rates of 0.2. ". 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 MemSizer (language modeling)?

MemSizer (language modeling) was published by Meta AI,Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), based in United States of America, categorised as industry,Academia.

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When was MemSizer (language modeling) released?

MemSizer (language modeling) was published in March 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.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 11 February 2026

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