GAWWN

Closed weights University of Michigan,Max Planck Institute for Informatics October 2016

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
University of Michigan,Max Planck Institute for Informatics
Organisation type
Academia,Academia
Country
United States of America, Germany
Published
8 October 2016
Authors
Scott E. Reed, Zeynep Akata, S. Mohan, Samuel Tenka, B. Schiele, Honglak Lee

What it does

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

Domain
Vision
Task
Image generation
Approach
Supervised

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
235,760 tokens

directly stated in paper

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

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

https://paperswithcode.com/sota/text-to-image-generation-on-cub I don't see any standard benchmarks where they would claim SOTA results

Record confidence
Confident

Sources

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

Reference
Learning What and Where to Draw
Last updated
28 November 2025

What the numbers mean

Where it came from

GAWWN was published by University of Michigan,Max Planck Institute for Informatics, in United States of America, in October 2016. academia,Academia is the category the publisher falls under.

It works in Vision, and is recorded as doing image generation.

Because the weights are not available, none of the hardware figures elsewhere on this site apply to it.

Training and provenance

The training set ran to roughly 235,760 tokens.

The reason it appears in this catalogue at all is sOTA improvement.

Answers

GAWWN — common questions

01

When was GAWWN released?

GAWWN was published in October 2016. 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 GAWWN used for?

GAWWN works in Vision, and is recorded as handling image generation. Models frequently carry more than one of each, and the tags describe purpose rather than capability limits.

03

What GPU do I need to run GAWWN?

None. GAWWN 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

Is GAWWN open source?

No. GAWWN has not had its weights published, so it exists only as a service controlled by its owner.

05

How many parameters does GAWWN have?

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

06

Who created GAWWN?

GAWWN was published by University of Michigan,Max Planck Institute for Informatics, based in United States of America, categorised as academia,Academia.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 28 November 2025

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