TCAN (WT2)
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
- Nanjing University,Ant Group
- Organisation type
- Academia,Industry
- Country
- China
- Published
- 28 February 2020
- Authors
- Hongyan Hao, Yan Wang, Yudi Xia, Jian Zhao, Furao Shen
What it does
The problem areas the model was built for. A model can carry several of each.
- 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
- 33M
- Training data
- 2,000,000 tokens
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
MIT license for code: https://github.com/haohy/TCAN
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
- 47
- Benchmark data
- Temporal Convolutional Attention-based Network(TCAN) (WT2)
"We improve the state-of-theart results of ... 9.20 on WikiText-2"
Sources
Where this record came from and when it was last checked.
- Reference
- Temporal Convolutional Attention-based Network For Sequence Modeling
- Last updated
- 11 February 2026
What the numbers mean
About this model
TCAN (WT2) was published by Nanjing University,Ant Group, in China, in February 2020. The organisation is categorised as academia,Industry.
It works in Language, and is recorded as doing language modeling.
Its weights were never published, so it can only be reached through its provider. No graphics card changes that.
Training and provenance
The training set ran to roughly 2,000,000 tokens.
The reason it appears in this catalogue at all is sOTA improvement.
Answers
TCAN (WT2) — common questions
What GPU do I need to run TCAN (WT2)?
None. TCAN (WT2) 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 TCAN (WT2) open source?
No. TCAN (WT2) has not had its weights published, so it exists only as a service controlled by its owner.
How many parameters does TCAN (WT2) have?
TCAN (WT2) has 33M 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.
Who created TCAN (WT2)?
TCAN (WT2) was published by Nanjing University,Ant Group, based in China, categorised as academia,Industry.
When was TCAN (WT2) released?
TCAN (WT2) was published in February 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.
What is TCAN (WT2) used for?
TCAN (WT2) 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.
The other direction
Looking at it from the other side?
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