AlphaGo Fan

Training consumed around 3.8 × 10²⁰ 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.

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.

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

It has a parameter count of 8.2M. The input to the policy network is a 19 × 19 × 48 image stack consisting of 48 feature planes. The first hidden layer zero pads the input into a 23 × 23 image, then convolves k filters of kernel size 5 × 5 with stride 1 with the input image and applies a rectifier nonlinearity. Each of the subsequent hidden layers 2 to 12 zero pads the respective previous hidden layer into a 21 × 21 image, then convolves k filters of kernel size 3 × 3 with stride 1, again followed by a rectifier nonlinearity. The final layer convolves 1 filter of kernel size 1 × 1 with stride 1, with a different bias for each position, and applies a softmax function. The match version of AlphaGo used k = 192 filters; Fig. 2b and Extended Data Table 3 additionally show the results of training with k = 128, 256 and 384 filters. The input to the value network is also a 19 × 19 × 48 image stack, with an additional binary feature plane describing the current colour to play. Hidden layers 2 to 11 are identical to the policy network, hidden layer 12 is an additional convolution layer, hidden layer 13 convolves 1 filter of kernel size 1 × 1 with stride 1, and hidden layer 14 is a fully connected linear layer with 256 rectifier units. The output layer is a fully connected linear layer with a single tanh unit. 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.

It was published by DeepMind, based in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, an organisation categorised as industry.

It was published in October 2015. Capability per parameter has improved considerably since, so a newer model of the same size is often the better use of the same hardware.

It works in the domain of Games, and is recorded as handling the task of go. 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.