Wide & Deep

Closed weights Google June 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
Google
Organisation type
Industry
Country
United States of America
Published
24 June 2016
Authors
HT Cheng, L Koc, J Harmsen, T Shaked

What it does

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

Domain
Recommendation
Task
Recommender system

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
500,000,000,000 tokens

How it is classified

Labels the source dataset applies when tracking notable models, and how confident it is in the entry.

Record confidence
Unknown
Citations
4,114

Sources

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

Reference
Wide & Deep Learning for Recommender Systems
Last updated
25 May 2026

What the numbers mean

Where it came from

Wide & Deep was published by Google, in United States of America, in June 2016. It comes out of industry.

It works in Recommendation, and is recorded as doing recommender system.

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 500,000,000,000 tokens went into training it.

Answers

Wide & Deep — common questions

01

When was Wide & Deep released?

Wide & Deep was published in June 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 Wide & Deep used for?

Wide & Deep works in Recommendation, and is recorded as handling recommender system. These are the areas it was designed around; they describe intent rather than a hard boundary.

03

What GPU do I need to run Wide & Deep?

None. Wide & Deep 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 Wide & Deep open source?

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

05

How many parameters does Wide & Deep have?

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

06

Who created Wide & Deep?

Wide & Deep was published by Google, based in United States of America, categorised as industry.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 25 May 2026

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