SRGAN

Closed weights Twitter May 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
Twitter
Organisation type
Industry
Country
United States of America
Published
25 May 2017
Authors
Christian Ledig, Lucas Theis, Ferenc Huszar, Jose Caballero, Andrew Cunningham, Alejandro Acosta, Andrew Aitken, Alykhan Tejani, Johannes Totz, Zehan Wang, Wenzhe Shi

What it does

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

Domain
Vision, Image generation
Task
Image super-resolution

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.

Training data
700,000 tokens

Availability

Whether you can obtain the model and run it on your own hardware, which is what decides if any of the graphics-card figures on this page apply.

Weights
Closed — provider access only
Model access
Unreleased
Training code
Unreleased

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
Record confidence
Unknown
Citations
11,592

Sources

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

Reference
Photo-Realistic Single Image Super-Resolution Using a Generative Adversarial Network
Last updated
1 January 2026

What the numbers mean

What this model is

SRGAN was published by Twitter, in the country recorded as United States of America, during May 2017. The category the publisher falls under is industry.

It works in the domain of Vision, Image generation, and is recorded as performing the task of image super-resolution.

Because the weights are not available, none of the hardware figures elsewhere on this site apply to it.

What went into building it

It was trained on a corpus of about 700,000 tokens of text.

The reason it appears in this catalogue at all: highly cited.

Answers

SRGAN — common questions

01

SRGAN— what is it used for?

It works in the domain of Vision, Image generation, and is recorded as handling the task of image super-resolution. These are the areas it was designed around; they describe intent rather than a hard boundary.

02

SRGAN— what GPU do I need to run it?

None. This 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

SRGAN— is it open source?

No. Its weights have not been published, so it exists only as a service controlled by its owner.

04

SRGAN— how many parameters does it have?

No parameter count has been published for it, which is why no memory or speed figure appears on this page.

05

SRGAN— who created it?

It was published by Twitter, based in United States of America, an organisation categorised as industry.

06

SRGAN— when was it released?

It was published in May 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 1 January 2026

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