NCP-VAE (CIFAR 10)

Closed weights University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC),NVIDIA November 2021

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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.

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Origin

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Organisation
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC),NVIDIA
Organisation type
Academia,Industry
Country
United States of America
Published
3 November 2021
Authors
Jyoti Aneja, Alexander Schwing, Jan Kautz, Arash Vahdat

What it does

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Domain
Image generation
Task
Image generation
Base model
NVAE (CIFAR 10)

Size

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Training data
tokens

Availability

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Weights
Closed — provider access only
Model access
Unreleased
Training code
Unreleased

How it is classified

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Record confidence
Unknown

Sources

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Reference
A Contrastive Learning Approach for Training Variational Autoencoder Priors
Last updated
11 February 2026

What the numbers mean

Background

NCP-VAE (CIFAR 10) was published by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC),NVIDIA, in United States of America, in November 2021. The organisation is categorised as academia,Industry.

It works in Image generation, and is recorded as doing image generation.

Its starting point was NVAE (CIFAR 10) — most models at this scale are adapted from an existing base rather than built from nothing.

Its weights were never published, so it can only be reached through its provider. No graphics card changes that.

Answers

NCP-VAE (CIFAR 10) — common questions

01

Is NCP-VAE (CIFAR 10) open source?

No. NCP-VAE (CIFAR 10) has not had its weights published, so it exists only as a service controlled by its owner.

02

How many parameters does NCP-VAE (CIFAR 10) have?

No parameter count has been published for NCP-VAE (CIFAR 10), which is why no memory or speed figure appears on this page.

03

Who created NCP-VAE (CIFAR 10)?

NCP-VAE (CIFAR 10) was published by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC),NVIDIA, based in United States of America, categorised as academia,Industry.

04

When was NCP-VAE (CIFAR 10) released?

NCP-VAE (CIFAR 10) 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.

05

What is NCP-VAE (CIFAR 10) used for?

NCP-VAE (CIFAR 10) works in Image generation, and is recorded as handling image generation. These are the areas it was designed around; they describe intent rather than a hard boundary.

06

What GPU do I need to run NCP-VAE (CIFAR 10)?

None. NCP-VAE (CIFAR 10) 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.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 11 February 2026

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