OverFeat

Closed weights New York University (NYU) 144M parameters December 2013

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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
New York University (NYU)
Organisation type
Academia
Country
United States of America
Published
21 December 2013
Authors
Pierre Sermanet, David Eigen, Xiang Zhang, Michael Mathieu, Rob Fergus, Yann LeCun

What it does

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

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.

Parameters
144M

144M (Table 4)

Training data
tokens

"We then extract 5 random crops (and their horizontal flips) of size 221x221 pixels and present these to the network in mini-batches of size 128."

Epochs
80

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 Tesla K20X

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
5,148

Sources

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

Reference
OverFeat: Integrated Recognition, Localization and Detection using Convolutional Networks
Last updated
28 November 2025

What the numbers mean

Where it came from

OverFeat was published by New York University (NYU), in United States of America, in December 2013. It comes out of academia.

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

Its weights were never published, so it can only be reached through its provider. No graphics card changes that.

How it was trained

Its inclusion criterion is highly cited.

Answers

OverFeat — common questions

01

How many parameters does OverFeat have?

OverFeat has 144M parameters. 144M (Table 4). 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.

02

Who created OverFeat?

OverFeat was published by New York University (NYU), based in United States of America, categorised as academia.

03

When was OverFeat released?

OverFeat was published in December 2013. Capability per parameter has improved considerably since, so a newer model of the same size is often the better use of the same hardware.

04

What is OverFeat used for?

OverFeat 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.

05

What GPU do I need to run OverFeat?

None. OverFeat 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.

06

Is OverFeat open source?

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

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 28 November 2025

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