Transformer+Recurrent Windows of Context

Closed weights Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago,University of Chicago 124M parameters August 2020

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Origin

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Organisation
Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago,University of Chicago
Organisation type
Academia,Academia
Country
United States of America
Published
16 August 2020
Authors
Davis Yoshida, Allyson Ettinger, Kevin Gimpel

What it does

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Domain
Language
Task
Language modeling
Base model
GPT-2 (124M)

Size

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Parameters
124M
Training data
tokens
Epochs
2

Training compute

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Training compute
7.9 × 10²⁰ FLOP

base model compute (speculative confidence): 7.936e+20 FLOP fine-tune compute: 1.53264e+17 FLOP 7.936e+20 FLOP + 1.53264e+17 FLOP = 7.9375326e+20 FLOP

How it was established
Operation counting
Fine-tuning compute
1.5 × 10¹⁷ FLOP

6 FLOP / token / parameter * 124000000 parameters * 103000000 tokens * 2 epochs = 1.53264e+17 FLOP

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
Speculative
Citations
7
Benchmark data
Transformer+Recurrent Windows of Context

Sources

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

Reference
Adding Recurrence to Pretrained Transformers for Improved Efficiency and Context Size
Last updated
28 November 2025

What the numbers mean

Background

Transformer+Recurrent Windows of Context was published by Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago,University of Chicago, in United States of America, in August 2020. academia,Academia is the category the publisher falls under.

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

It builds on GPT-2 (124M), which is why it shares that model's general shape and size.

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

Training it took roughly 7.9 × 10²⁰ FLOP of computation — a measure of what producing the model cost, not of how fast it answers.

Answers

Transformer+Recurrent Windows of Context — common questions

01

What is Transformer+Recurrent Windows of Context used for?

Transformer+Recurrent Windows of Context works in Language, and is recorded as handling language modeling. 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.

02

How much compute was used to train Transformer+Recurrent Windows of Context?

Around 7.9 × 10²⁰ 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 Transformer+Recurrent Windows of Context?

None. Transformer+Recurrent Windows of Context 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 Transformer+Recurrent Windows of Context open source?

No. Transformer+Recurrent Windows of Context has not had its weights published, so it exists only as a service controlled by its owner.

05

How many parameters does Transformer+Recurrent Windows of Context have?

Transformer+Recurrent Windows of Context has 124M parameters. 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 Transformer+Recurrent Windows of Context?

Transformer+Recurrent Windows of Context was published by Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago,University of Chicago, based in United States of America, categorised as academia,Academia.

07

When was Transformer+Recurrent Windows of Context released?

Transformer+Recurrent Windows of Context was published in August 2020. 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 28 November 2025

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