ViT-G/14 (LiT)
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
- Google Research
- Organisation type
- Industry
- Country
- United States of America
- Published
- 15 November 2021
- Authors
- Xiaohua Zhai, Xiao Wang, Basil Mustafa, Andreas Steiner, Daniel Keysers, Alexander Kolesnikov, Lucas Beyer
What it does
The problem areas the model was built for. A model can carry several of each.
- Domain
- Vision
- Task
- Image classification
- Base model
- ViT-G/14
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
- 3B
- Training data
- 1,040,000,000,000 tokens
- Epochs
- 4.5
Table 7
Largest dataset is "4 billion image and alt-text pairs". This is rounded down slightly; the other datasets are much smaller.
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
- Google TPU v3
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 license https://colab.research.google.com/github/google-research/big_vision/blob/main/big_vision/configs/proj/image_text/lit.ipynb https://github.com/google-research/big_vision
How it is classified
Labels the source dataset applies when tracking notable models, and how confident it is in the entry.
- Why it is tracked
- SOTA improvement
- Record confidence
- Confident
- Citations
- 723
"For example, it achieves 82.5% accuracy on the challenging ObjectNet test set [1], outperforming the previous state-of-the-art method [46] by 10.2%."
Sources
Where this record came from and when it was last checked.
- Reference
- Zero-Shot Transfer with Locked-image Text Tuning
- Last updated
- 25 May 2026
What the numbers mean
Background
ViT-G/14 (LiT) was published by Google Research, in United States of America, in November 2021. The organisation is categorised as industry.
It works in Vision, and is recorded as doing image classification.
Its starting point was ViT-G/14 — most models at this scale are adapted from an existing base rather than built from nothing.
Because the weights are not available, none of the hardware figures elsewhere on this site apply to it.
What went into building it
It was trained on about 1,040,000,000,000 tokens of text.
The reason it appears in this catalogue at all is sOTA improvement.
Answers
ViT-G/14 (LiT) — common questions
What is ViT-G/14 (LiT) used for?
ViT-G/14 (LiT) works in Vision, and is recorded as handling image classification. These are the areas it was designed around; they describe intent rather than a hard boundary.
What GPU do I need to run ViT-G/14 (LiT)?
None. ViT-G/14 (LiT) 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.
Is ViT-G/14 (LiT) open source?
No. ViT-G/14 (LiT) has not had its weights published, so it exists only as a service controlled by its owner.
How many parameters does ViT-G/14 (LiT) have?
ViT-G/14 (LiT) has 3B parameters. Table 7. 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.
Who created ViT-G/14 (LiT)?
ViT-G/14 (LiT) was published by Google Research, based in United States of America, categorised as industry.
When was ViT-G/14 (LiT) released?
ViT-G/14 (LiT) was published in November 2021. Capability per parameter has improved considerably since, so a newer model of the same size is often the better use of the same hardware.
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Looking at it from the other side?
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