Credibilty Network

Closed weights University College London (UCL),University of Toronto 0.3K parameters July 1999

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 College London (UCL),University of Toronto
Organisation type
Academia,Academia
Country
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Canada
Published
1 July 1999
Authors
Geoffrey E. Hinton, Zoubin Ghahramani, Vee Whye Tah

What it does

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

Domain
Vision
Task
Character recognition (OCR), Image 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.

Parameters
0.3K

The size of the credibility network is 256-64-4. The 64 middle layer units are meant to encode low level features, while each of the 4 top level units are meant to encode a digit class

Training data
2,800 tokens

Training compute

The arithmetic performed to train the model, measured in floating-point operations. It is a measure of what the training run cost, not of how fast the finished model answers you.

Training compute
5.4 × 10⁶ FLOP

=6*324 parameters *2800 datapoints

How it was established
Operation counting

Availability

Whether you can obtain the model and run it on your own hardware, which is what decides if any of the graphics-card figures on this page apply.

Weights
Closed — provider access only
Model access
Unreleased
Training code
Unreleased

How it is classified

Labels the source dataset applies when tracking notable models, and how confident it is in the entry.

Record confidence
Speculative

Sources

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

Reference
Learning to Parse Images
Last updated
28 November 2025

What the numbers mean

About this model

Credibilty Network was published by University College London (UCL),University of Toronto, in the country recorded as United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, during July 1999. The category the publisher falls under is academia,Academia.

It works in the domain of Vision, and is recorded as performing the task of character recognition (OCR), Image classification.

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

What went into building it

The training run consumed about 5.4 × 10⁶ FLOP. That figure measures what producing the model cost, and has no bearing on how fast it answers.

Training consumed a corpus of around 2,800 tokens of text.

Answers

Credibilty Network — common questions

01

Credibilty Network— 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.

02

Credibilty Network— is it open source?

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

03

Credibilty Network— how many parameters does it have?

It has a parameter count of 0.3K. The size of the credibility network is 256-64-4. The 64 middle layer units are meant to encode low level features, while each of the 4 top level units are meant to encode a digit class. 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.

04

Credibilty Network— who created it?

It was published by University College London (UCL),University of Toronto, based in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, an organisation categorised as academia,Academia.

05

Credibilty Network— when was it released?

It was published in July 1999. Capability per parameter has improved considerably since, so a newer model of the same size is often the better use of the same hardware.

06

Credibilty Network— what is it used for?

It works in the domain of Vision, and is recorded as handling the task of character recognition (OCR), Image classification. These are the areas it was designed around; they describe intent rather than a hard boundary.

07

Credibilty Network— how much compute was used to train it?

Training consumed around 5.4 × 10⁶ 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.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 28 November 2025

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