BellKor 2007

Closed weights AT&T September 2009

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
AT&T
Organisation type
Industry
Country
United States of America
Published
21 September 2009
Authors
RM Bell, Y Koren, C Volinsky

What it does

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

Domain
Recommendation
Task
Movie ratings

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

The training data set consists of 100,480,507 ratings

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
SOTA improvement

Won Netflix prize

Citations
241

Sources

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

Reference
The BellKor solution to the Netflix Prize
Last updated
28 November 2025

What the numbers mean

About this model

BellKor 2007 was published by AT&T, in the country recorded as United States of America, during September 2009. The category the publisher falls under is industry.

It works in the domain of Recommendation, and is recorded as performing the task of movie ratings.

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

How it was trained

The reason it appears in this catalogue at all: sOTA improvement.

Answers

BellKor 2007 — common questions

01

BellKor 2007— 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.

02

BellKor 2007— how many parameters does it have?

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

03

BellKor 2007— who created it?

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

04

BellKor 2007— when was it released?

It was published in September 2009. Capability per parameter has improved considerably since, so a newer model of the same size is often the better use of the same hardware.

05

BellKor 2007— what is it used for?

It works in the domain of Recommendation, and is recorded as handling the task of movie ratings. Models frequently carry more than one of each, and the tags describe purpose rather than capability limits.

06

BellKor 2007— 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.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 28 November 2025

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