PreTrans-3L-250H

Closed weights University of Toronto 43M parameters March 2013

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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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Full specification

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Origin

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

Organisation
University of Toronto
Organisation type
Academia
Country
Canada
Published
22 March 2013
Authors
Alex Graves, Abdel-rahman Mohamed, Geoffrey Hinton

What it does

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

Domain
Speech
Task
Speech recognition (ASR)

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
43M

Table 1

Training data
tokens

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
Citations
8,965

Sources

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

Reference
Speech Recognition with Deep Recurrent Neural Networks
Last updated
25 May 2026

What the numbers mean

About this model

PreTrans-3L-250H was published by University of Toronto, in Canada, in March 2013. It comes out of academia.

It works in Speech, and is recorded as doing speech recognition (ASR).

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

How it was trained

The reason it appears in this catalogue at all is highly cited.

Answers

PreTrans-3L-250H — common questions

01

What is PreTrans-3L-250H used for?

PreTrans-3L-250H works in Speech, and is recorded as handling speech recognition (ASR). These are the areas it was designed around; they describe intent rather than a hard boundary.

02

What GPU do I need to run PreTrans-3L-250H?

None. PreTrans-3L-250H 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.

03

Is PreTrans-3L-250H open source?

The licensing for PreTrans-3L-250H was never recorded in our source data. We treat unstated licensing as closed, because an unrecorded licence is not one to rely on.

04

How many parameters does PreTrans-3L-250H have?

PreTrans-3L-250H has 43M parameters. Table 1. 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.

05

Who created PreTrans-3L-250H?

PreTrans-3L-250H was published by University of Toronto, based in Canada, categorised as academia.

06

When was PreTrans-3L-250H released?

PreTrans-3L-250H was published in March 2013. Capability per parameter has improved considerably since, so a newer model of the same size is often the better use of the same hardware.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 25 May 2026

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