Long-range sequence Compressive Transformers

Closed weights DeepMind November 2019

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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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Full specification

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Origin

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Organisation
DeepMind
Organisation type
Industry
Country
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Published
13 November 2019
Authors
Jack W. Rae, Anna Potapenko, Siddhant M. Jayakumar, Timothy P. Lillicrap

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.

Training data
103,000,000 tokens

"for word-based LM we used 16, 000 warmup steps with 500, 000 decay steps" "a sequence window size all equal to 512" " a total batch size of 128" 516000*512*128/103000000 = 328.32 epochs

Epochs
328.32
Batch size
65,536

512*128

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
1 × 10²⁰ FLOP

123000000000000 FLOP / second/ GPU * 64 GPUs * 12 hours * 3600 sec/hour * 0.3 [assumed utilization] = 1.0202112e+20 FLOP

How it was established
Hardware

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
Chips used
64
Wall-clock time
12 hours

"The model converged in a little over 12 hours."

Power draw
59.0 kW

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
Unreleased

How it is classified

Labels the source dataset applies when tracking notable models, and how confident it is in the entry.

Record confidence
Confident
Citations
845
Benchmark data
Compressive Transformers for Long-Range Sequence Modelling

Sources

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

Reference
Compressive Transformers for Long-Range Sequence Modelling
Last updated
25 May 2026

What the numbers mean

Background

Long-range sequence Compressive Transformers was published by DeepMind, in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, in November 2019. It comes out of 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.

How it was trained

The training run consumed about 1 × 10²⁰ FLOP, on Google TPU v3. That figure describes the cost of creating it and has no bearing on how quickly it generates text.

It was trained on about 103,000,000 tokens of text.

Answers

Long-range sequence Compressive Transformers — common questions

01

When was Long-range sequence Compressive Transformers released?

Long-range sequence Compressive Transformers was published in November 2019. Capability per parameter has improved considerably since, so a newer model of the same size is often the better use of the same hardware.

02

What is Long-range sequence Compressive Transformers used for?

Long-range sequence Compressive Transformers 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.

03

How much compute was used to train Long-range sequence Compressive Transformers?

Around 1 × 10²⁰ FLOP, on Google TPU v3. 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.

04

What GPU do I need to run Long-range sequence Compressive Transformers?

None. Long-range sequence Compressive Transformers 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.

05

Is Long-range sequence Compressive Transformers open source?

No. Long-range sequence Compressive Transformers has not had its weights published, so it exists only as a service controlled by its owner.

06

How many parameters does Long-range sequence Compressive Transformers have?

No parameter count has been published for Long-range sequence Compressive Transformers, which is why no memory or speed figure appears on this page.

07

Who created Long-range sequence Compressive Transformers?

Long-range sequence Compressive Transformers was published by DeepMind, based in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, categorised as industry.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 25 May 2026

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