HOGWILD!

Closed weights University of Wisconsin Madison November 2011

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 Wisconsin Madison
Organisation type
Academia
Country
United States of America
Published
11 November 2011
Authors
F Niu, B Recht, C Ré, SJ Wright

What it does

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

Domain
Other
Task
Text classification

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
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
2,356

Sources

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

Reference
HOGWILD!: A Lock-Free Approach to Parallelizing Stochastic Gradient Descent
Last updated
25 May 2026

What the numbers mean

Where it came from

HOGWILD! was published by University of Wisconsin Madison, in United States of America, in November 2011. The organisation is categorised as academia.

It works in Other, and is recorded as doing text classification.

This is a closed model: the trained values stayed with whoever produced them, and there is no local version to run.

Answers

HOGWILD! — common questions

01

What is HOGWILD! used for?

HOGWILD! works in Other, and is recorded as handling text classification. 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.

02

What GPU do I need to run HOGWILD!?

None. HOGWILD! 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 HOGWILD! open source?

The licensing for HOGWILD! 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 HOGWILD! have?

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

05

Who created HOGWILD!?

HOGWILD! was published by University of Wisconsin Madison, based in United States of America, categorised as academia.

06

When was HOGWILD! released?

HOGWILD! was published in November 2011. 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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