NIN-Imagenet: a small(29MB) model for imagenet, yet performs slightly better than AlexNet, and fast to train. (Note: a more caffe-compatible version with correct convolutional weights shape: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B0IedYUunOQINEFtUi1QNWVhVVU&usp=drive_web)
Time Performance comparison without GPU:
CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-4790 CPU @ 3.60GHz × 8
BLAS: MKL
Alexnet:
Average Forward pass: 175.213 ms.
Average Backward pass: 201.576 ms.
Average Forward-Backward: 376.84 ms.
Network In Network
Average Forward pass: 186.398 ms.
Average Backward pass: 151.068 ms.
Average Forward-Backward: 337.52 ms.
Average Forward pass: 875.507 ms.
Average Backward pass: 396.282 ms.
Average Forward-Backward: 1271.9 ms.
[VGG16] (https://gist.github.com/jimmie33/27c1c0a7736ba66c2395)
Bad performance for training and testing.
Average Forward pass: 2551.37 ms.
Average Backward pass: 2138.39 ms.
Average Forward-Backward: 4689.82 ms.
Average Forward pass: 543.115 ms.
Average Backward pass: 616.355 ms.
Average Forward-Backward: 1159.52 ms.