Paragraph Vector

Closed weights Google 32M parameters May 2014

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Origin

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

Organisation
Google
Organisation type
Industry
Country
United States of America
Published
14 May 2014
Authors
Quoc V. Le, Tomas Mikolov

What it does

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Domain
Language
Task
Language modeling

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.

Parameters
32M

75000*400+5000*400=32000000 "We learn the word vectors and paragraph vectors using 75,000 training documents" "In PV-DM, the learned vector representations have 400 dimensions for both words and documents" Paragraph embedding of dimension number of paragraphs * embedding size Word embedding of dimension |V|*embedding size Assuming vocabulary of 5000 since results are compared directly to Maas et. al., 2011

Training data
16,500,000 tokens

"25,000 labeled training instances, 25,000 labeled test in- stances and 50,000 unlabeled training instances."

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
Highly cited
Record confidence
Confident

Sources

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

Reference
Distributed Representations of Sentences and Documents
Last updated
28 November 2025

What the numbers mean

About this model

Paragraph Vector was published by Google, in the country recorded as United States of America, during May 2014. It comes out of an organisation categorised as industry.

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.

How it was trained

Training consumed a corpus of around 16,500,000 tokens of text.

It is tracked in the underlying dataset for one reason in particular: highly cited.

Answers

Paragraph Vector — common questions

01

Paragraph Vector— how many parameters does it have?

It has a parameter count of 32M. 75000*400+5000*400=32000000 "We learn the word vectors and paragraph vectors using 75,000 training documents" "In PV-DM, the learned vector representations have 400 dimensions for both words and documents" Paragraph embedding of dimension number of paragraphs * embedding size Word embedding of dimension |V|*embedding size Assuming vocabulary of 5000 since results are compared directly to Maas et. al., 2011. 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.

02

Paragraph Vector— who created it?

It was published by Google, based in United States of America, an organisation categorised as industry.

03

Paragraph Vector— when was it released?

It was published in May 2014. 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

Paragraph Vector— what is it used for?

It works in the domain of Language, and is recorded as handling the task of language modeling. These are the areas it was designed around; they describe intent rather than a hard boundary.

05

Paragraph Vector— 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.

06

Paragraph Vector— is it open source?

The licensing 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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