PNAS-net

Closed weights Johns Hopkins University,Google AI,Stanford University 86M parameters December 2017

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
Johns Hopkins University,Google AI,Stanford University
Organisation type
Academia,Industry,Academia
Country
United States of America
Published
2 December 2017
Authors
C Liu, B Zoph, M Neumann, J Shlens

What it does

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

Domain
Vision
Task
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
86M
Training data
45,000 tokens

How it is classified

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

Citations
2,140

Sources

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

Reference
Progressive Neural Architecture Search
Last updated
25 May 2026

What the numbers mean

Background

PNAS-net was published by Johns Hopkins University,Google AI,Stanford University, in United States of America, in December 2017. It comes out of academia,Industry,Academia.

It works in Vision, and is recorded as doing image classification.

Its weights were never published, so it can only be reached through its provider. No graphics card changes that.

Training and provenance

It was trained on about 45,000 tokens of text.

Answers

PNAS-net — common questions

01

What is PNAS-net used for?

PNAS-net works in Vision, and is recorded as handling image classification. Models frequently carry more than one of each, and the tags describe purpose rather than capability limits.

02

What GPU do I need to run PNAS-net?

None. PNAS-net 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.

03

Is PNAS-net open source?

The licensing for PNAS-net was never recorded in our source data. We treat unstated licensing as closed, because an unrecorded licence is not one to rely on.

04

How many parameters does PNAS-net have?

PNAS-net has 86M parameters. 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.

05

Who created PNAS-net?

PNAS-net was published by Johns Hopkins University,Google AI,Stanford University, based in United States of America, categorised as academia,Industry,Academia.

06

When was PNAS-net released?

PNAS-net was published in December 2017. Capability per parameter has improved considerably since, so a newer model of the same size is often the better use of the same hardware.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 25 May 2026

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