NMT Transformer 437M

Closed weights Google,Bar-Ilan University 437.7M parameters February 2019

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,Bar-Ilan University
Organisation type
Industry,Academia
Country
United States of America, Israel
Published
28 February 2019
Authors
Roee Aharoni, Melvin Johnson, Orhan Firat

What it does

The problem areas the model was built for. A model can carry several of each.

Domain
Language
Task
Translation

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
437.7M

"Regarding the model, for these experiments we use a larger Transformer model with 6 layers in both the encoder and the decoder, model dimension set to 1024, hidden dimension size of 8192, and 16 attention heads. This results in a model with approximately 473.7M parameters."

Training data
tokens

96M total examples, per Table 4. One sentence per example?

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.

Why it is tracked
SOTA improvement

"We report results on the publicly available TED talks multilingual corpus where we show that massively multilingual many-to-many models are effective in low resource settings, outperforming the previous state-of-the-art while supporting up to 59 languages."

Record confidence
Confident
Citations
539

Sources

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

Reference
Massively Multilingual Neural Machine Translation
Last updated
25 May 2026

What the numbers mean

Background

NMT Transformer 437M was published by Google,Bar-Ilan University, in the country recorded as United States of America, during February 2019. The category the publisher falls under is industry,Academia.

It works in the domain of Language, and is recorded as performing the task of translation.

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

Training and provenance

Its inclusion criterion: sOTA improvement.

Answers

NMT Transformer 437M — common questions

01

NMT Transformer 437M— when was it released?

It was published in February 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

NMT Transformer 437M— what is it used for?

It works in the domain of Language, and is recorded as handling the task of translation. Models frequently carry more than one of each, and the tags describe purpose rather than capability limits.

03

NMT Transformer 437M— what GPU do I need to run it?

None. This 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

NMT Transformer 437M— is it open source?

No. Its weights have not been published, so it exists only as a service controlled by its owner.

05

NMT Transformer 437M— how many parameters does it have?

It has a parameter count of 437.7M. "Regarding the model, for these experiments we use a larger Transformer model with 6 layers in both the encoder and the decoder, model dimension set to 1024, hidden dimension size of 8192, and 16 attention heads. This results in a model with approximately 473.7M 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

NMT Transformer 437M— who created it?

It was published by Google,Bar-Ilan University, based in United States of America, an organisation categorised as industry,Academia.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 25 May 2026

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