Reading Twice for NLU

Closed weights DeepMind June 2017

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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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Origin

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

Organisation
DeepMind
Organisation type
Industry
Country
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Published
8 June 2017
Authors
Dirk Weissenborn, Tomáš Kočiský, Chris Dyer

What it does

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

Domain
Language
Task
Question answering

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
200,000 tokens

both datasets have around 100k training examples. SQuAD have around 4M words. TriviaQA is larger "We use 2 recent DQAbenchmark training and evaluation datasets, SQuAD (Rajpurkar et al., 2016) and TriviaQA (Joshi et al., 2017). "

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

"Our results are competitive with the best systems, achieving a new state of the art on the recent TriviaQA benchmarks."

Record confidence
Unknown
Citations
62

Sources

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

Reference
Dynamic Integration of Background Knowledge in Neural NLU Systems
Last updated
28 November 2025

What the numbers mean

What this model is

Reading Twice for NLU was published by DeepMind, in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, in June 2017. It comes out of industry.

It works in Language, and is recorded as doing question answering.

This is a closed model: the trained values stayed with whoever produced them, and there is no local version to run.

Training and provenance

Around 200,000 tokens went into training it.

Its inclusion criterion is sOTA improvement.

Answers

Reading Twice for NLU — common questions

01

How many parameters does Reading Twice for NLU have?

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

02

Who created Reading Twice for NLU?

Reading Twice for NLU was published by DeepMind, based in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, categorised as industry.

03

When was Reading Twice for NLU released?

Reading Twice for NLU was published in June 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.

04

What is Reading Twice for NLU used for?

Reading Twice for NLU works in Language, and is recorded as handling question answering. 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.

05

What GPU do I need to run Reading Twice for NLU?

None. Reading Twice for NLU 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.

06

Is Reading Twice for NLU open source?

The licensing for Reading Twice for NLU was never recorded in our source data. We treat unstated licensing as closed, because an unrecorded licence is not one to rely on.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 28 November 2025

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