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LeNet-5

Training compute
2.8×10¹² FLOP
Parameters
60K
Published
Nov 1, 1998

LeNet-5 is an AI model developed by AT&T (United States), first published in November 1998. It works in the vision domain, on tasks such as character recognition (ocr). It counts among the frontier models: the systems trained with the most compute of their moment.

Training it took an estimated 2.8×10¹² FLOP of compute (estimation method: operation counting). The model has 60,000 parameters. It was trained on roughly 60K datapoints.

The reference paper has 57,900 citations. Epoch AI rates the confidence of this record as confident.

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Organization
AT&T
Country of organization
United States
Domain
Vision
Task
Character recognition (OCR)
Training compute
2.8×10¹² FLOP
Compute estimation method
Operation counting
Parameters
60,000
Dataset size
60K
Citations
57,900
Epoch confidence
Confident
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