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PyramidNet

Training compute
2.3×10¹⁵ FLOP
Parameters
26M
Published
Sep 6, 2017

PyramidNet is an AI model developed by Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) (South Korea), first published in September 2017. It works in the vision domain, on tasks such as image classification.

Training it took an estimated 2.3×10¹⁵ FLOP of compute (estimation method: operation counting). The model has 26,000,000 parameters. It was trained on roughly 1.3M datapoints.

Access: Open weights (unrestricted). Its weights are openly available. The reference paper has 750 citations. Epoch AI rates the confidence of this record as likely.

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Organization
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Country of organization
South Korea
Domain
Vision
Task
Image classification
Training compute
2.3×10¹⁵ FLOP
Compute estimation method
Operation counting
Parameters
26,000,000
Dataset size
1.3M
Numerical format
FP32
Model accessibility
Open weights (unrestricted)
Open weights
Yes
Citations
750
Epoch confidence
Likely
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