# Progressive Meta-Pooling Learning for Lightweight Image Classification Model Source: [Progressive Meta-Pooling Learning for Lightweight Image Classification Model]() Collection index: [llms.txt]() Data updated: 2025-10-26T00:56:59.119Z Authors: Peijie Dong, Xin Niu, Zhiliang Tian, Lujun Li, Xiaodong Wang, Zimian Wei, Hengyue Pan, Dongsheng Li Published: 2023-01-24T14:28:05.000Z ## Abstract Practical networks for edge devices adopt shallow depth and small convolutional kernels to save memory and computational cost, which leads to a restricted receptive field. Conventional efficient learning methods focus on lightweight convolution designs, ignoring the role of the receptive field in neural network design. In this paper, we propose the Meta-Pooling framework to make the receptive field learnable for a lightweight network, which consists of parameterized pooling-based operations. Specifically, we introduce a parameterized spatial enhancer, which is composed of pooling operations to provide versatile receptive fields for each layer of a lightweight model. Then, we present a Progressive Meta-Pooling Learning (PMPL) strategy for the parameterized spatial enhancer to acquire a suitable receptive field size. The results on the ImageNet dataset demonstrate that MobileNetV2 using Meta-Pooling achieves top1 accuracy of 74.6\\%, which outperforms MobileNetV2 by 2.3\\%. ## Recorded benchmark results A research result applies to its stated dataset, split, metric and evaluation configuration. Compare like-for-like settings, preserve the metric's unit and direction, and distinguish paper-reported results from independent reproduction. The best result recorded here is not a claim of exhaustive, current global coverage. ## Original sources and implementation [Original paper]() [PDF]()