Relational Memory Core

Closed weights DeepMind,University College London (UCL) June 2018

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

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Origin

Who built this model, where, and when it was published.

Organisation
DeepMind,University College London (UCL)
Organisation type
Industry,Academia
Country
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Published
5 June 2018
Authors
Adam Santoro, Ryan Faulkner, David Raposo, Jack Rae, Mike Chrzanowski, Theophane Weber, Daan Wierstra, Oriol Vinyals, Razvan Pascanu, Timothy 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
4,000,000,000 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
Unreleased

looks like code for the architecture, but not experiment code: https://github.com/google-deepmind/sonnet/blob/v1/sonnet/python/modules/relational_memory.py

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

"Finally, we test the RMC on a suite of tasks that may profit from more capable relational reasoning across sequential information, and show large gains in RL domains (e.g. Mini PacMan), program evaluation, and language modeling, achieving state-of-the-art results on the WikiText-103, Project Gutenberg, and GigaWord datasets."

Record confidence
Confident
Citations
235
Benchmark data
Relational Memory Core

Sources

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

Reference
Relational recurrent neural networks
Last updated
28 November 2025

What the numbers mean

Where it came from

Relational Memory Core was published by DeepMind,University College London (UCL), in the country recorded as United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, during June 2018. The category the publisher falls under is industry,Academia.

It works in the domain of Language, and is recorded as performing the task of 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 set ran to roughly 4,000,000,000 tokens of text.

Its inclusion criterion: sOTA improvement.

Answers

Relational Memory Core — common questions

01

Relational Memory Core— 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.

02

Relational Memory Core— is it open source?

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

03

Relational Memory Core— how many parameters does it have?

No parameter count has been published for it, which is why no memory or speed figure appears on this page.

04

Relational Memory Core— who created it?

It was published by DeepMind,University College London (UCL), based in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, an organisation categorised as industry,Academia.

05

Relational Memory Core— when was it released?

It was published in June 2018. Capability per parameter has improved considerably since, so a newer model of the same size is often the better use of the same hardware.

06

Relational Memory Core— what is it used for?

It works in the domain of Language, and is recorded as handling the task of language modeling. These are the areas it was designed around; they describe intent rather than a hard boundary.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 28 November 2025

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