Densely Connected LSTM + Var. Dropout

Closed weights Ghent University 23M parameters July 2017

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Origin

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

Organisation
Ghent University
Organisation type
Academia
Country
Belgium
Published
19 July 2017
Authors
Fréderic Godin, Joni Dambre, Wesley De Neve

What it does

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Domain
Language
Task
Language modeling

Size

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Parameters
23M

23M (Table 1)

Training data
929,000 tokens

"We trained for 100 epochs and used early stopping."

Epochs
100

Training compute

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Training compute
1.3 × 10¹⁶ FLOP

6 FLOP / parameter / token * 23000000 parameters * 929000 tokens * 100 epochs = 1.28202e+16 FLOP

How it was established
Operation counting

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
Confident
Citations
7
Benchmark data
Densely Connected LSTM + Var. Dropout

Sources

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Reference
Improving Language Modeling using Densely Connected Recurrent Neural Networks
Last updated
28 November 2025

What the numbers mean

Background

Densely Connected LSTM + Var. Dropout was published by Ghent University, in the country recorded as Belgium, during July 2017. It comes out of an organisation categorised as 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.

Training and provenance

The training run consumed about 1.3 × 10¹⁶ FLOP. That figure measures what producing the model cost, and has no bearing on how fast it answers.

Training consumed a corpus of around 929,000 tokens of text.

Answers

Densely Connected LSTM + Var. Dropout — common questions

01

Densely Connected LSTM + Var. Dropout— is it open source?

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

02

Densely Connected LSTM + Var. Dropout— how many parameters does it have?

It has a parameter count of 23M. 23M (Table 1). 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.

03

Densely Connected LSTM + Var. Dropout— who created it?

It was published by Ghent University, based in Belgium, an organisation categorised as academia.

04

Densely Connected LSTM + Var. Dropout— when was it released?

It was published in July 2017. Capability per parameter has improved considerably since, so a newer model of the same size is often the better use of the same hardware.

05

Densely Connected LSTM + Var. Dropout— what is it used for?

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

06

Densely Connected LSTM + Var. Dropout— how much compute was used to train it?

Training consumed around 1.3 × 10¹⁶ 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.

07

Densely Connected LSTM + Var. Dropout— 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.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 28 November 2025

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