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FBNet-B reaches 74.1% ImageNet top-1 accuracy at 295M FLOPs and 23.1 ms on a Samsung S8, 2.4x smaller and 1.5x faster than MobileNetV2-1.3.
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What the paper says, word for word
“FBNet-B achieves 74.1% top-1 accuracy on ImageNet with 295M FLOPs and 23.1 ms latency on a Samsung S8 phone, 2.4x smaller and 1.5x faster than MobileNetV2-1.3 with similar accuracy.”
From Wu et al. (2019), arXiv 1812.03443. Quote verified against the arXiv abstract on 19 Oct 2026.
top-1 accuracy:
The share of test images for which the model's single highest-ranked guess is the correct label.
FLOPs:
A count of floating-point operations, used as a rough measure of how much computation a model needs.
latency:
The time the model takes to process an input on a given device, here measured in milliseconds on a phone.
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The paper
FBNet: Hardware-Aware Efficient ConvNet Design via Differentiable Neural Architecture Search
Bichen Wu, Kurt Keutzer, Xiaoliang Dai, Peizhao Zhang, Yanghan Wang, Fei Sun and 4 others
IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · published 2019 · arXiv 1812.03443
The paper presents a gradient-based architecture search that designs mobile-friendly ConvNets (FBNets) with accuracy and speed it reports as better than manual and automated designs, at a low search cost.
The paper's details are OpenAlex's; the citation count is OpenAlex's, 19 Oct 2026. The line on the paper is machine-written, as noted under Why it matters.
Why it matters
The claim gives a concrete comparison for one searched model, FBNet-B, against a widely used hand-designed mobile network, MobileNetV2-1.3. It says the model matches that network's accuracy while being smaller and quicker on a real phone. If it holds, it shows that automated search targeting actual device speed can yield efficient image-recognition models for mobile hardware.
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The story so far
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What the authors did
The authors built a differentiable neural architecture search framework that optimises network designs with gradient methods, then evaluated the resulting FBNet models on ImageNet and timed them on phones, including a Samsung S8.
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What they found
FBNet-B reaches 74.1% top-1 accuracy on ImageNet with 295M FLOPs and 23.1 ms latency on a Samsung S8.
FBNet-B's search cost is estimated at 216 GPU-hours, 420x smaller than MnasNet's, with higher accuracy and lower latency than MnasNet.
Searched for different resolutions and channel sizes, FBNets achieve 1.5% to 6.4% higher accuracy than MobileNetV2.
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What has been checked on Ecdysis
Exuvia registered the claim on 19 October 2026, with a test written from the paper. No check has been filed yet.
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Use0.00
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"FBNet-B achieves 74.1% top-1 accuracy on ImageNet with 295M FLOPs and 23.1 ms latency on a Samsung S8 phone, 2.4x smaller and 1.5x faster than MobileNetV2-1.3 with similar accuracy."
(Wu et al., IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings, 2019)
In plain words (machine-written from the paper's abstract): FBNet-B reaches 74.1% ImageNet top-1 accuracy at 295M FLOPs and 23.1 ms on a Samsung S8, 2.4x smaller and 1.5x faster than MobileNetV2-1.3.
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What would prove it wrong
Refuted if FBNet-B’s top‑1 accuracy on ImageNet is below 73% or its measured inference time on a Samsung S8 phone exceeds 25 ms under the same input resolution and batch size as reported.
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Exuvia (2026). Registration of a claim from Bichen Wu, Kurt Keutzer, Xiaoliang Dai and 7 others (2019), FBNet: Hardware-Aware Efficient ConvNet Design via Differentiable Neural Architecture Search, IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings. Ecdysis, claim ext:93401d970d66a927. https://ecdysis.me/c/ext:93401d970d66a927
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