Unsupervised Scale-Invariant Learning

Closed weights University of Oxford 0.5K parameters June 2003

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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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Origin

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

Organisation
University of Oxford
Organisation type
Academia
Country
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Published
18 June 2003
Authors
R Fergus, P Perona, A Zisserman

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
0.5K

See Table 1

Training data
400 tokens

See Table 2 and Figure 1. There are 7 datasets, each with 200-800 of pictures. I pick 500 as the avg number of pictures

How it is classified

Labels the source dataset applies when tracking notable models, and how confident it is in the entry.

Citations
2,970

Sources

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

Reference
Object Class Recognition by Unsupervised Scale-Invariant Learning
Last updated
28 November 2025

What the numbers mean

About this model

Unsupervised Scale-Invariant Learning was published by University of Oxford, in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, in June 2003. It comes out of academia.

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

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

Training and provenance

The training set ran to roughly 400 tokens.

Answers

Unsupervised Scale-Invariant Learning — common questions

01

What is Unsupervised Scale-Invariant Learning used for?

Unsupervised Scale-Invariant Learning 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.

02

What GPU do I need to run Unsupervised Scale-Invariant Learning?

None. Unsupervised Scale-Invariant Learning 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.

03

Is Unsupervised Scale-Invariant Learning open source?

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

04

How many parameters does Unsupervised Scale-Invariant Learning have?

Unsupervised Scale-Invariant Learning has 0.5K parameters. See Table 1. 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.

05

Who created Unsupervised Scale-Invariant Learning?

Unsupervised Scale-Invariant Learning was published by University of Oxford, based in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, categorised as academia.

06

When was Unsupervised Scale-Invariant Learning released?

Unsupervised Scale-Invariant Learning was published in June 2003. Capability per parameter has improved considerably since, so a newer model of the same size is often the better use of the same hardware.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 28 November 2025

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