Visualizing CNNs
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
- New York University (NYU)
- Organisation type
- Academia
- Country
- United States of America
- Published
- 12 November 2013
- Authors
- MD Zeiler, R Fergus
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.
- Training data
- 7,680,000 tokens
Training compute
The arithmetic performed to train the model, measured in floating-point operations. It is a measure of what the training run cost, not of how fast the finished model answers you.
- Training compute
- 5.3 × 10¹⁷ FLOP
- How it was established
- Hardware,Third-party estimation
1 GPU * 12 days * 1.54 TFLOPS/GTX 580 * 0.33 utilization = 532 PF = 0.0062 pfs-days Source: https://openai.com/blog/ai-and-compute "We stopped training after 70 epochs, which took around 12 days on a single GTX580 GPU"
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 580
- Compute cost
- $13
How it is classified
Labels the source dataset applies when tracking notable models, and how confident it is in the entry.
- Frontier model
- Yes
- Why it is tracked
- Highly cited
- Record confidence
- Confident
- Citations
- 17,026
Sources
Where this record came from and when it was last checked.
- Reference
- Visualizing and Understanding Convolutional Networks
- Last updated
- 25 May 2026
What the numbers mean
Background
Visualizing CNNs was published by New York University (NYU), in United States of America, in November 2013. academia is the category the publisher falls under.
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.
Training and provenance
Producing it required around 5.3 × 10¹⁷ FLOP of arithmetic, on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580, which is a statement about the training budget rather than about inference.
Around 7,680,000 tokens went into training it.
It is tracked in the underlying dataset for one reason in particular: highly cited.
Answers
Visualizing CNNs — common questions
What GPU do I need to run Visualizing CNNs?
None. Visualizing CNNs 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.
Is Visualizing CNNs open source?
The licensing for Visualizing CNNs was never recorded in our source data. We treat unstated licensing as closed, because an unrecorded licence is not one to rely on.
How many parameters does Visualizing CNNs have?
No parameter count has been published for Visualizing CNNs, which is why no memory or speed figure appears on this page.
Who created Visualizing CNNs?
Visualizing CNNs was published by New York University (NYU), based in United States of America, categorised as academia.
When was Visualizing CNNs released?
Visualizing CNNs was published in November 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.
What is Visualizing CNNs used for?
Visualizing CNNs works in Vision, and is recorded as handling 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.
How much compute was used to train Visualizing CNNs?
Around 5.3 × 10¹⁷ FLOP, on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580. That measures what producing the model cost and says nothing about how quickly it answers once trained — inference speed comes from memory bandwidth, not from the training budget.
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