# Image Classification on Stanford Cars (top-1/top-5 error)

Source: [Image Classification on Stanford Cars (top-1/top-5 error)](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/image-classification-on-stanford-cars-top-1-top-5-error>)

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

Data updated: 2026-02-26T06:07:18.993Z

Evaluation of Image Classification performance on the Stanford Cars dataset, reporting Top-1 and Top-5 error rates.

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) | Stanford Cars |
| Metric | Top-1 Error Rate |
| Unit | PERCENT |
| Direction | Lower is better |
| Results loaded | 26 of 26 |
| 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 Error Rate](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/image-classification-on-stanford-cars-top-1-top-5-error.md?metric=Top-1%20Error%20Rate>): Lower is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [Top-5 Error Rate](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/image-classification-on-stanford-cars-top-1-top-5-error.md?metric=Top-5%20Error%20Rate>): Lower is better; unit: PERCENT.

## Recorded results

| Method | Top-1 Error Rate | Result date | Report paper |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| DAT | 3.8 | Not recorded | 68fa69d81e209131cea248fb |
| EfficientNet-L2 | 4.04 | Not recorded | 68fa69d81e209131cea248fb |
| EfficientNet-L2 | 4.93 | Not recorded | 68fa69d81e209131cea248fb |
| TBMSL-Net | 5 | Not recorded | 68fa69d81e209131cea248fb |
| EfficientNet-b7 | 5.18 | Not recorded | 68fa69d81e209131cea248fb |
| EfficientNet-b7 | 5.94 | Not recorded | 68fa69d81e209131cea248fb |
| Individual Networks | 8.17 | Not recorded | 68fa64251e209131cea02d6b |
| Individual Networks | 8.64 | Not recorded | 68fa64251e209131cea02d6b |
| Individual Networks | 9.41 | Not recorded | 68fa64251e209131cea02d6b |
| Piggyback | 9.87 | Not recorded | 68fa64251e209131cea02d6b |
| Piggyback | 10.38 | Not recorded | 68fa64251e209131cea02d6b |
| Piggyback | 10.87 | Not recorded | 68fa64251e209131cea02d6b |
| PackNet | 13.89 | Not recorded | 68fa64251e209131cea02d6b |
| Individual Networks | 13.97 | Not recorded | 68fa64631e209131cea04404 |
| PackNet | 14.05 | Not recorded | 68fa64251e209131cea02d6b |
| PackNet | 15.35 | Not recorded | 68fa64251e209131cea02d6b |
| PackNet | 15.75 | Not recorded | 68fa64631e209131cea04404 |
| PackNet | 17.6 | Not recorded | 68fa64251e209131cea02d6b |
| PackNet | 18.08 | Not recorded | 68fa64631e209131cea04404 |
| PackNet | 19.99 | Not recorded | 68fa64251e209131cea02d6b |
| PackNet | 22.09 | Not recorded | 68fa64251e209131cea02d6b |
| LwF | 22.97 | Not recorded | 68fa64631e209131cea04404 |
| Classifier Only | 43.19 | Not recorded | 68fa64251e209131cea02d6b |
| Classifier Only | 47.2 | Not recorded | 68fa64251e209131cea02d6b |
| Classifier Only | 51.62 | Not recorded | 68fa64251e209131cea02d6b |
| Classifier Only | 56.42 | Not recorded | 68fa64631e209131cea04404 |

### DAT

Top-1 Error Rate: 3.8. Result ID: 698dee09ffc3901de0999f3e.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa69d81e209131cea248fb.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa65341e209131cea08ec7.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: Not recorded. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### EfficientNet-L2

Top-1 Error Rate: 4.04. Result ID: 698dee09ffc3901de0999f3c.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa69d81e209131cea248fb.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa69d81e209131cea248fb.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/google-research/sam>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"EfficientNet-L2","SAM Optimization":true,"Pre-training Dataset":"ImageNet plus JFT"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### EfficientNet-L2

Top-1 Error Rate: 4.93. Result ID: 698dee09ffc3901de0999f3d.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa69d81e209131cea248fb.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa69d81e209131cea248fb.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/google-research/sam>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"EfficientNet-L2","SAM Optimization":false,"Pre-training Dataset":"ImageNet plus JFT"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### TBMSL-Net

Top-1 Error Rate: 5. Result ID: 698dee09ffc3901de0999f3b.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa69d81e209131cea248fb.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa680b1e209131cea19caa.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/ZF1044404254/MMAL-Net>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Pre-training Dataset":"ImageNet-only"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### EfficientNet-b7

Top-1 Error Rate: 5.18. Result ID: 698dee09ffc3901de0999f39.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa69d81e209131cea248fb.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa69d81e209131cea248fb.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/google-research/sam>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"EfficientNet-b7","SAM Optimization":true,"Pre-training Dataset":"ImageNet-only"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### EfficientNet-b7

Top-1 Error Rate: 5.94. Result ID: 698dee09ffc3901de0999f3a.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa69d81e209131cea248fb.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa69d81e209131cea248fb.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/google-research/sam>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"EfficientNet-b7","SAM Optimization":false,"Pre-training Dataset":"ImageNet-only"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Individual Networks

Top-1 Error Rate: 8.17. Result ID: 698c0d19f729bc7f68e80621.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa64251e209131cea02d6b.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"ResNet-50"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Individual Networks

Top-1 Error Rate: 8.64. Result ID: 698c0d19f729bc7f68e80626.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa64251e209131cea02d6b.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"DenseNet-121"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Individual Networks

Top-1 Error Rate: 9.41. Result ID: 698c0d19f729bc7f68e8061c.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa64251e209131cea02d6b.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"VGG-16 BN"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Piggyback

Top-1 Error Rate: 9.87. Result ID: 698c0d19f729bc7f68e8061b.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa64251e209131cea02d6b.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa64251e209131cea02d6b.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/arunmallya/piggyback>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"VGG-16 BN"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Piggyback

Top-1 Error Rate: 10.38. Result ID: 698c0d19f729bc7f68e80620.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa64251e209131cea02d6b.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa64251e209131cea02d6b.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/arunmallya/piggyback>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"ResNet-50"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Piggyback

Top-1 Error Rate: 10.87. Result ID: 698c0d19f729bc7f68e80625.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa64251e209131cea02d6b.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa64251e209131cea02d6b.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/arunmallya/piggyback>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"DenseNet-121"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### PackNet

Top-1 Error Rate: 13.89. Result ID: 698c0d19f729bc7f68e8061e.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa64251e209131cea02d6b.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa64631e209131cea04404.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/arunmallya/packnet>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"ResNet-50","Task addition order":"↓"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Individual Networks

Top-1 Error Rate: 13.97. Result ID: 698c2f03112aeb9460f00795.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa64631e209131cea04404.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"VGG-16","# Models":"4","Size":"2,173 MB"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### PackNet

Top-1 Error Rate: 14.05. Result ID: 698c0d19f729bc7f68e80619.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa64251e209131cea02d6b.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa64631e209131cea04404.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/arunmallya/packnet>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"VGG-16 BN","Task addition order":"↓"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### PackNet

Top-1 Error Rate: 15.35. Result ID: 698c0d19f729bc7f68e80623.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa64251e209131cea02d6b.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa64631e209131cea04404.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/arunmallya/packnet>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"DenseNet-121","Task addition order":"↓"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### PackNet

Top-1 Error Rate: 15.75. Result ID: 698c2f03112aeb9460f00794.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa64631e209131cea04404.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa64631e209131cea04404.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/arunmallya/packnet>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"VGG-16","Pruning Ratios":"0.75, 0.75, 0.75","# Models":"1","Size":"595 MB"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### PackNet

Top-1 Error Rate: 17.6. Result ID: 698c0d19f729bc7f68e8061a.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa64251e209131cea02d6b.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa64631e209131cea04404.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/arunmallya/packnet>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"VGG-16 BN","Task addition order":"↑"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### PackNet

Top-1 Error Rate: 18.08. Result ID: 698c2f03112aeb9460f00793.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa64631e209131cea04404.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa64631e209131cea04404.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/arunmallya/packnet>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"VGG-16","Pruning Ratios":"0.50, 0.75, 0.75","# Models":"1","Size":"595 MB"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### PackNet

Top-1 Error Rate: 19.99. Result ID: 698c0d19f729bc7f68e8061f.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa64251e209131cea02d6b.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa64631e209131cea04404.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/arunmallya/packnet>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"ResNet-50","Task addition order":"↑"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### PackNet

Top-1 Error Rate: 22.09. Result ID: 698c0d19f729bc7f68e80624.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa64251e209131cea02d6b.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa64631e209131cea04404.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/arunmallya/packnet>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"DenseNet-121","Task addition order":"↑"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### LwF

Top-1 Error Rate: 22.97. Result ID: 698c2f03112aeb9460f00792.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa64631e209131cea04404.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa63201e209131ce9fd0b3.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"VGG-16","# Models":"1","Size":"562 MB"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Classifier Only

Top-1 Error Rate: 43.19. Result ID: 698c0d19f729bc7f68e80622.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa64251e209131cea02d6b.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"DenseNet-121"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Classifier Only

Top-1 Error Rate: 47.2. Result ID: 698c0d19f729bc7f68e8061d.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa64251e209131cea02d6b.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"ResNet-50"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Classifier Only

Top-1 Error Rate: 51.62. Result ID: 698c0d19f729bc7f68e80618.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa64251e209131cea02d6b.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"VGG-16 BN"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Classifier Only

Top-1 Error Rate: 56.42. Result ID: 698c2f03112aeb9460f00791.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa64631e209131cea04404.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"VGG-16","# Models":"1","Size":"562 MB"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

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