SimpleNet

Closed weights Sensifai,Islamic Azad University,Technicolor R&I,Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM) 5.5M parameters August 2016

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
Sensifai,Islamic Azad University,Technicolor R&I,Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM)
Organisation type
Industry,Academia
Country
Belgium, Iran (Islamic Republic of), France
Published
22 August 2016
Authors
Seyyed Hossein Hasanpour, Mohammad Rouhani, Mohsen Fayyaz, Mohammad Sabokrou

What it does

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

Domain
Vision
Task
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
5.5M

SOTA CIFAR-10 model was 5.48m params

Training data
1,280,000 tokens

The training run

What it physically took to train: which chips, how many, for how long, and what that drew from the wall.

Training hardware
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

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
SOTA improvement

"We achieved state-of-theart result on CIFAR10 outperforming several heavier architectures"

Record confidence
Confident
Citations
128

Sources

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

Reference
Lets keep it simple, Using simple architectures to outperform deeper and more complex architectures
Last updated
25 May 2026

What the numbers mean

Where it came from

SimpleNet was published by Sensifai,Islamic Azad University,Technicolor R&I,Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), in the country recorded as Belgium, during August 2016. The publishing organisation is categorised as industry,Academia.

It works in the domain of Vision, and is recorded as performing the task of 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 a corpus of about 1,280,000 tokens of text.

Its inclusion criterion: sOTA improvement.

Answers

SimpleNet — common questions

01

SimpleNet— who created it?

It was published by Sensifai,Islamic Azad University,Technicolor R&I,Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), based in Belgium, an organisation categorised as industry,Academia.

02

SimpleNet— when was it released?

It was published in August 2016. Capability per parameter has improved considerably since, so a newer model of the same size is often the better use of the same hardware.

03

SimpleNet— what is it used for?

It works in the domain of Vision, and is recorded as handling the task of image classification. A model can carry several of each, so these are the areas it was built for rather than a limit on what it will attempt.

04

SimpleNet— 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.

05

SimpleNet— is it open source?

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

06

SimpleNet— how many parameters does it have?

It has a parameter count of 5.5M. SOTA CIFAR-10 model was 5.48m params. 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.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 25 May 2026

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