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RecurrentGemma Models by Google DeepMind

Google DeepMindGemmaOpen weights
2 models2024Up to 4k ctx

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Details

ResearcherGoogle DeepMind
LicenseGemma
Commercial useCommercial use: conditional
Models2
Released2024
Max context4k

About

RecurrentGemma is a family of open-weight language models developed by Google DeepMind, known for their cutting-edge Griffin architecture. This hybrid design blends linear recurrences with local attention mechanisms, allowing the models to excel in a range of language tasks with reduced memory overhead and efficient inference, especially on lengthy sequences. Unlike traditional transformer models that require memory scaling linearly with sequence length, RecurrentGemma maintains a fixed-sized state, resulting in faster processing speeds. Both pre-trained and instruction-tuned variants are available, the latter being tailored for tasks like dialogue and instruction following. Accessible through platforms like Hugging Face and Kaggle, RecurrentGemma-2B achieves performance akin to Gemma-2B despite being trained on fewer tokens, demonstrating its efficiency and versatility 23910.

Decision facts

Best fit
chatbot and role-playing use cases
Capability starting point
RecurrentGemma 9B with 4k context
Lowest tracked input
Not tracked
Closest related family
T5Gemma

Current Variants

Use-when guidance is based on each model's tracked capabilities, context window, release date, and replacement status.

1 in view1 retired

Use when the workload needs 4k context and 9B parameters.

2024-064k context9B parameters

Release Timeline

2 release groups
2024-06
1 current
RecurrentGemma 9B
4k context9B parameters
Current
2024-04
1 retired
RecurrentGemma 2B
4k context2B parameters
Archived

Specifications(2 models)

RecurrentGemma model specifications comparison
ModelReleasedContextParameters
RecurrentGemma 9B2024-064k9B

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Models(2)