ShuffleNet v1

Closed weights Megvii Inc 2.4M parameters July 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
Megvii Inc
Organisation type
Industry
Country
China
Published
3 July 2017
Authors
X Zhang, X Zhou, M Lin, J Sun

What it does

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

Domain
Vision
Task
Object detection, Image classification
Numerical format
FP32

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
2.4M
Training data
1,280,000 tokens

How it is classified

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

Why it is tracked
Highly cited
Citations
8,325

Sources

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

Reference
ShuffleNet: An Extremely Efficient Convolutional Neural Network for Mobile Devices
Last updated
25 May 2026

What the numbers mean

Where it came from

ShuffleNet v1 was published by Megvii Inc, in China, in July 2017. It comes out of industry.

It works in Vision, and is recorded as doing object detection, Image classification.

This is a closed model: the trained values stayed with whoever produced them, and there is no local version to run.

What went into building it

It was trained on about 1,280,000 tokens of text.

It is tracked in the underlying dataset for one reason in particular: highly cited.

Answers

ShuffleNet v1 — common questions

01

What GPU do I need to run ShuffleNet v1?

None. ShuffleNet v1 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

Is ShuffleNet v1 open source?

The licensing for ShuffleNet v1 was never recorded in our source data. We treat unstated licensing as closed, because an unrecorded licence is not one to rely on.

03

How many parameters does ShuffleNet v1 have?

ShuffleNet v1 has 2.4M 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.

04

Who created ShuffleNet v1?

ShuffleNet v1 was published by Megvii Inc, based in China, categorised as industry.

05

When was ShuffleNet v1 released?

ShuffleNet v1 was published in July 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.

06

What is ShuffleNet v1 used for?

ShuffleNet v1 works in Vision, and is recorded as handling object detection, Image classification. These are the areas it was designed around; they describe intent rather than a hard boundary.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 25 May 2026

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