BatchNorm

Closed weights Google 13.6M parameters June 2015

No estimate

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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

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Origin

Who built this model, where, and when it was published.

Organisation
Google
Organisation type
Industry
Country
United States of America
Published
15 June 2015
Authors
Sergey Ioffe, Christian Szegedy

What it does

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

Domain
Vision
Task
Image classification
Base model
GoogLeNet / InceptionV1

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
13.6M

"The network contains 13.6 · 106 parameters"

Training data
12,441,600,000 tokens
Epochs
72

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
Confident
Citations
46,718

Sources

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

Reference
Batch Normalization: Accelerating Deep Network Training by Reducing Internal Covariate Shift
Last updated
25 May 2026

What the numbers mean

What this model is

BatchNorm was published by Google, in United States of America, in June 2015. industry is the category the publisher falls under.

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

Its starting point was GoogLeNet / InceptionV1 — most models at this scale are adapted from an existing base rather than built from nothing.

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 12,441,600,000 tokens of text.

Its inclusion criterion is highly cited.

Answers

BatchNorm — common questions

01

Who created BatchNorm?

BatchNorm was published by Google, based in United States of America, categorised as industry.

02

When was BatchNorm released?

BatchNorm was published in June 2015. 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

What is BatchNorm used for?

BatchNorm 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.

04

What GPU do I need to run BatchNorm?

None. BatchNorm 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

Is BatchNorm open source?

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

06

How many parameters does BatchNorm have?

BatchNorm has 13.6M parameters. "The network contains 13.6 · 106 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.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 25 May 2026

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