Spatially-Sparse CNN

Closed weights University of Warwick September 2014

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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.

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Full specification

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Origin

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

Organisation
University of Warwick
Organisation type
Academia
Country
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Published
23 September 2014
Authors
Benjamin Graham

What it does

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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.

Training data
901,200 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
SOTA improvement

SOTA per https://paperswithcode.com/sota/image-classification-on-cifar-10

Record confidence
Unknown
Citations
260

Sources

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

Reference
Spatially-sparse convolutional neural networks
Last updated
28 November 2025

What the numbers mean

What this model is

Spatially-Sparse CNN was published by University of Warwick, in the country recorded as United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, during September 2014. It comes out of an organisation categorised as academia.

It works in the domain of Vision, and is recorded as performing the task of image classification.

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

How it was trained

Training consumed a corpus of around 901,200 tokens of text.

The reason it appears in this catalogue at all: sOTA improvement.

Answers

Spatially-Sparse CNN — common questions

01

Spatially-Sparse CNN— 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.

02

Spatially-Sparse CNN— 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.

03

Spatially-Sparse CNN— who created it?

It was published by University of Warwick, based in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, an organisation categorised as academia.

04

Spatially-Sparse CNN— when was it released?

It was published in September 2014. Capability per parameter has improved considerably since, so a newer model of the same size is often the better use of the same hardware.

05

Spatially-Sparse CNN— what is it used for?

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

06

Spatially-Sparse CNN— 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.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 28 November 2025

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