# Image Classification on ImageNet 1k (val) (Top-1 Accuracy, Robustness, and Runtime Efficiency)

Source: [Image Classification on ImageNet 1k (val) (Top-1 Accuracy, Robustness, and Runtime Efficiency)](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/image-classification-on-imagenet-1k-val-top-1-accuracy-robustness-and-runtime-efficiency>)

Collection index: [llms.txt](<https://www.sota2.com/research/llms.txt>)

Data updated: 2026-02-27T10:58:07.327Z

Evaluation of Image Classification performance on the validation split of the ImageNet 1k dataset, reporting standard Top-1 Accuracy alongside metrics quantifying rotational robustness, communication overhead, and inference runtime efficiency.

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.

| Scope | Recorded value |
| --- | --- |
| Task | Image Classification |
| Dataset (including any stated split) | ImageNet 1k (val) |
| Metric | Top-1 Accuracy |
| Unit | PERCENT |
| Direction | Higher is better |
| Results loaded | 19 of 19 |
| Coverage | All results currently returned for this benchmark |

Evaluation settings may differ between results. The original papers and recorded configurations are needed to establish comparability. A shared metric name alone does not establish an identical protocol.

## Metrics

- [Top-1 Accuracy](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/image-classification-on-imagenet-1k-val-top-1-accuracy-robustness-and-runtime-efficiency.md?metric=Top-1%20Accuracy>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [In-Rotation Robustness Score](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/image-classification-on-imagenet-1k-val-top-1-accuracy-robustness-and-runtime-efficiency.md?metric=In-Rotation%20Robustness%20Score>): Higher is better; unit: SCALAR.

- [External Rotation Robustness Score](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/image-classification-on-imagenet-1k-val-top-1-accuracy-robustness-and-runtime-efficiency.md?metric=External%20Rotation%20Robustness%20Score>): Higher is better; unit: SCALAR.

- [Multiplicity Count (K)](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/image-classification-on-imagenet-1k-val-top-1-accuracy-robustness-and-runtime-efficiency.md?metric=Multiplicity%20Count%20(K)>): Lower is better; unit: SCALAR.

- [Communication Size (MB)](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/image-classification-on-imagenet-1k-val-top-1-accuracy-robustness-and-runtime-efficiency.md?metric=Communication%20Size%20(MB)>): Lower is better; unit: SIZE.

- [Overall Runtime (LAN) (s)](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/image-classification-on-imagenet-1k-val-top-1-accuracy-robustness-and-runtime-efficiency.md?metric=Overall%20Runtime%20(LAN)%20(s)>): Lower is better; unit: TIME.

- [Overall Runtime (WAN) (s)](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/image-classification-on-imagenet-1k-val-top-1-accuracy-robustness-and-runtime-efficiency.md?metric=Overall%20Runtime%20(WAN)%20(s)>): Lower is better; unit: TIME.

- [Cost per Parameter](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/image-classification-on-imagenet-1k-val-top-1-accuracy-robustness-and-runtime-efficiency.md?metric=Cost%20per%20Parameter>): Lower is better; unit: SCALAR.

- [Cost per Accuracy Point](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/image-classification-on-imagenet-1k-val-top-1-accuracy-robustness-and-runtime-efficiency.md?metric=Cost%20per%20Accuracy%20Point>): Lower is better; unit: SCALAR.

## Recorded results

| Method | Top-1 Accuracy | Result date | Report paper |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| DenseNet-201 | 77.42 | Not recorded | 697c3af8a8b01e76cc8da3f2 |
| ResNet-101 | 77.37 | Not recorded | 697c3af8a8b01e76cc8da3f2 |
| StriaNet-L4 | 77.24 | Not recorded | 697c3af8a8b01e76cc8da3f2 |
| StriaNet-L3 | 76.33 | Not recorded | 697c3af8a8b01e76cc8da3f2 |
| DenseNet-169 | 76.2 | Not recorded | 697c3af8a8b01e76cc8da3f2 |
| ResNet-50 | 76.13 | Not recorded | 697c3af8a8b01e76cc8da3f2 |
| StriaNet-L2 | 76.02 | Not recorded | 697c3af8a8b01e76cc8da3f2 |
| DenseNet-121 | 74.98 | Not recorded | 697c3af8a8b01e76cc8da3f2 |
| MobileNet(1.4) | 74.7 | Not recorded | 697c3af8a8b01e76cc8da3f2 |
| MobileNet(1.3) | 74.4 | Not recorded | 697c3af8a8b01e76cc8da3f2 |
| VGG-19 | 74.22 | Not recorded | 697c3af8a8b01e76cc8da3f2 |
| VGG-16 | 73.36 | Not recorded | 697c3af8a8b01e76cc8da3f2 |
| ResNet-34 | 73.31 | Not recorded | 697c3af8a8b01e76cc8da3f2 |
| StriaNet-L1 | 72.79 | Not recorded | 697c3af8a8b01e76cc8da3f2 |
| MobileNet(1.0) | 72 | Not recorded | 697c3af8a8b01e76cc8da3f2 |
| VGG-13 | 71.59 | Not recorded | 697c3af8a8b01e76cc8da3f2 |
| VGG-11 | 70.37 | Not recorded | 697c3af8a8b01e76cc8da3f2 |
| MobileNet(.75) | 69.8 | Not recorded | 697c3af8a8b01e76cc8da3f2 |
| ResNet-18 | 69.76 | Not recorded | 697c3af8a8b01e76cc8da3f2 |

### DenseNet-201

Top-1 Accuracy: 77.42. Result ID: 69a178b835dfcabb00e745f6.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/697c3af8a8b01e76cc8da3f2.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa63f31e209131cea01bfd.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/liuzhuang13/DenseNet>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Params":"18.72M","LAN bandwidth":"3Gbps","WAN bandwidth":"400Mbps"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### ResNet-101

Top-1 Accuracy: 77.37. Result ID: 69a178b835dfcabb00e745f2.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/697c3af8a8b01e76cc8da3f2.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa62321e209131ce9f8328.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Params":"39.63M","LAN bandwidth":"3Gbps","WAN bandwidth":"400Mbps"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### StriaNet-L4

Top-1 Accuracy: 77.24. Result ID: 69a178b835dfcabb00e745fd.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/697c3af8a8b01e76cc8da3f2.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/697c3af8a8b01e76cc8da3f2.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Params":"14M","LAN bandwidth":"3Gbps","WAN bandwidth":"400Mbps"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### StriaNet-L3

Top-1 Accuracy: 76.33. Result ID: 69a178b835dfcabb00e745fe.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/697c3af8a8b01e76cc8da3f2.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/697c3af8a8b01e76cc8da3f2.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Params":"7.65M","LAN bandwidth":"3Gbps","WAN bandwidth":"400Mbps"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### DenseNet-169

Top-1 Accuracy: 76.2. Result ID: 69a178b835dfcabb00e745f7.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/697c3af8a8b01e76cc8da3f2.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa63f31e209131cea01bfd.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/liuzhuang13/DenseNet>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Params":"16.06M","LAN bandwidth":"3Gbps","WAN bandwidth":"400Mbps"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### ResNet-50

Top-1 Accuracy: 76.13. Result ID: 69a178b835dfcabb00e745f3.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/697c3af8a8b01e76cc8da3f2.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Params":"20.69M","LAN bandwidth":"3Gbps","WAN bandwidth":"400Mbps"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### StriaNet-L2

Top-1 Accuracy: 76.02. Result ID: 69a178b835dfcabb00e745ff.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/697c3af8a8b01e76cc8da3f2.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/697c3af8a8b01e76cc8da3f2.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Params":"5.92M","LAN bandwidth":"3Gbps","WAN bandwidth":"400Mbps"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### DenseNet-121

Top-1 Accuracy: 74.98. Result ID: 69a178b835dfcabb00e745f8.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/697c3af8a8b01e76cc8da3f2.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa63f31e209131cea01bfd.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/liuzhuang13/DenseNet>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Params":"9.3M","LAN bandwidth":"3Gbps","WAN bandwidth":"400Mbps"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### MobileNet(1.4)

Top-1 Accuracy: 74.7. Result ID: 69a178b835dfcabb00e745f9.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/697c3af8a8b01e76cc8da3f2.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa65811e209131cea0a9a1.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/tensorflow/models/tree/master/research/slim/nets/mobilenet>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Params":"5.07M","LAN bandwidth":"3Gbps","WAN bandwidth":"400Mbps"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### MobileNet(1.3)

Top-1 Accuracy: 74.4. Result ID: 69a178b835dfcabb00e745fa.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/697c3af8a8b01e76cc8da3f2.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa65811e209131cea0a9a1.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/tensorflow/models/tree/master/research/slim/nets/mobilenet>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Params":"4.49M","LAN bandwidth":"3Gbps","WAN bandwidth":"400Mbps"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### VGG-19

Top-1 Accuracy: 74.22. Result ID: 69a178b835dfcabb00e745ee.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/697c3af8a8b01e76cc8da3f2.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa61d01e209131ce9f62f5.md>)

[Implementation](<http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/research/very_deep/>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Params":"20.02M","LAN bandwidth":"3Gbps","WAN bandwidth":"400Mbps"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### VGG-16

Top-1 Accuracy: 73.36. Result ID: 69a178b835dfcabb00e745ef.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/697c3af8a8b01e76cc8da3f2.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa61d01e209131ce9f62f5.md>)

[Implementation](<http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/research/very_deep/>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Params":"14.71M","LAN bandwidth":"3Gbps","WAN bandwidth":"400Mbps"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### ResNet-34

Top-1 Accuracy: 73.31. Result ID: 69a178b835dfcabb00e745f4.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/697c3af8a8b01e76cc8da3f2.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa62321e209131ce9f8328.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Params":"21.1M","LAN bandwidth":"3Gbps","WAN bandwidth":"400Mbps"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### StriaNet-L1

Top-1 Accuracy: 72.79. Result ID: 69a178b835dfcabb00e74600.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/697c3af8a8b01e76cc8da3f2.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/697c3af8a8b01e76cc8da3f2.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Params":"3.44M","LAN bandwidth":"3Gbps","WAN bandwidth":"400Mbps"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### MobileNet(1.0)

Top-1 Accuracy: 72. Result ID: 69a178b835dfcabb00e745fb.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/697c3af8a8b01e76cc8da3f2.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa65811e209131cea0a9a1.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/tensorflow/models/tree/master/research/slim/nets/mobilenet>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Params":"2.98M","LAN bandwidth":"3Gbps","WAN bandwidth":"400Mbps"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### VGG-13

Top-1 Accuracy: 71.59. Result ID: 69a178b835dfcabb00e745f0.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/697c3af8a8b01e76cc8da3f2.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa61d01e209131ce9f62f5.md>)

[Implementation](<http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/research/very_deep/>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Params":"9.4M","LAN bandwidth":"3Gbps","WAN bandwidth":"400Mbps"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### VGG-11

Top-1 Accuracy: 70.37. Result ID: 69a178b835dfcabb00e745f1.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/697c3af8a8b01e76cc8da3f2.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa61d01e209131ce9f62f5.md>)

[Implementation](<http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/research/very_deep/>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Params":"9.22M","LAN bandwidth":"3Gbps","WAN bandwidth":"400Mbps"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### MobileNet(.75)

Top-1 Accuracy: 69.8. Result ID: 69a178b835dfcabb00e745fc.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/697c3af8a8b01e76cc8da3f2.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa65811e209131cea0a9a1.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/tensorflow/models/tree/master/research/slim/nets/mobilenet>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Params":"1.55M","LAN bandwidth":"3Gbps","WAN bandwidth":"400Mbps"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### ResNet-18

Top-1 Accuracy: 69.76. Result ID: 69a178b835dfcabb00e745f5.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/697c3af8a8b01e76cc8da3f2.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa62321e209131ce9f8328.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Params":"10.99M","LAN bandwidth":"3Gbps","WAN bandwidth":"400Mbps"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

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