Squeezenet v1.1

April 16, 2026 · View on GitHub

Use case : `Image classification`

Model description

SqueezeNet is a convolutional neural network that uses design strategies to reduce the number of parameters, particularly with the use of fire modules that "squeeze" parameters using 1x1 convolutions. SqueezeNet 1.1 has 2.4x less computation and slightly fewer parameters than SqueezeNet 1.0, without sacrifying accuracy.

The model is quantized in int8 using tensorflow lite converter.

Network information

Network Information	Value
Framework	TensorFlow Lite
MParams	725,061
Quantization	int8
Provenance	https://github.com/forresti/SqueezeNet
Paper	https://arxiv.org/pdf/1602.07360.pdf

The models are quantized using tensorflow lite converter.

Network inputs / outputs

For an image resolution of NxM and P classes

Input Shape	Description
(1, N, M, 3)	Single NxM RGB image with UINT8 values between 0 and 255

Output Shape	Description
(1, P)	Per-class confidence for P classes in FLOAT32

Recommended Platforms

Platform	Supported	Optimized
STM32L0	[]	[]
STM32L4	[x]	[]
STM32U5	[x]	[]
STM32H7	[x]	[x]
STM32MP1	[x]	[]
STM32MP2	[x]	[]
STM32N6	[x]	[]

Performances

Metrics

Measures are done with default STM32Cube.AI configuration with enabled input / output allocated option.
tfs stands for "training from scratch", meaning that the model weights were randomly initialized before training.

Reference NPU memory footprint on food101 dataset (see Accuracy for details on dataset)

Model	Format	Resolution	Series	Internal RAM	External RAM	Weights Flash	STEdgeAI Core version
SqueezeNet v1.1 tfs	Int8	128x128x3	STM32N6	240.25	0.0	753.38	4.0.0
SqueezeNet v1.1 tfs	Int8	224x224x3	STM32N6	803.52	0.0	753.38	4.0.0

Reference NPU inference time on food101 dataset (see Accuracy for details on dataset)

Model	Format	Resolution	Board	Execution Engine	Inference time (ms)	Inf / sec	STEdgeAI Core version
SqueezeNet v1.1 tfs	Int8	128x128x3	STM32N6570-DK	NPU/MCU	3.82	261.78	4.0.0
SqueezeNet v1.1 tfs	Int8	224x224x3	STM32N6570-DK	NPU/MCU	7.97	125.47	4.0.0

Reference MCU memory footprint based on Flowers dataset (see Accuracy for details on dataset)

Model	Format	Resolution	Series	Activation RAM	Runtime RAM	Weights Flash	Code Flash	Total RAM	Total Flash	STEdgeAI Core version
SqueezeNet v1.1 tfs	Int8	128x128x3	STM32H7	271.84 KiB	3.72 KiB	716.71 KiB	45.79 KiB	275.56 KiB	762.5 KiB	4.0.0
SqueezeNet v1.1 tfs	Int8	224x224x3	STM32H7	829.09 KiB	3.72 KiB	716.71 KiB	45.85 KiB	832.81 KiB	762.56 KiB	4.0.0

Reference MCU inference time based on Flowers dataset (see Accuracy for details on dataset)

Model	Format	Resolution	Board	Execution Engine	Frequency	Inference time (ms)	STEdgeAI Core version
SqueezeNet v1.1 tfs	Int8	128x128x3	STM32H747I-DISCO	1 CPU	400 MHz	216.13 ms	4.0.0
SqueezeNet v1.1 tfs	Int8	224x224x3	STM32H747I-DISCO	1 CPU	400 MHz	693.96 ms	4.0.0

Reference MPU inference time based on Flowers dataset (see Accuracy for details on dataset)

Model	Format	Resolution	Quantization	Board	Execution Engine	Frequency	Inference time (ms)	%NPU	%GPU	%CPU	X-LINUX-AI version	Framework
SqueezeNet v1.1 tfs	Int8	128x128x3	per-channel**	STM32MP257F-DK2	NPU/GPU	800 MHz	9.41	9.70	90.30	0	v6.1.0	OpenVX
SqueezeNet v1.1 tfs	Int8	224x224x3	per-channel**	STM32MP257F-DK2	NPU/GPU	800 MHz	30.93	8.45	91.55	0	v6.1.0	OpenVX
SqueezeNet v1.1 tfs	Int8	128x128x3	per-channel	STM32MP157F-DK2	2 CPU	800 MHz	45.27	NA	NA	100	v6.1.0	TensorFlowLite 2.18.0
SqueezeNet v1.1 tfs	Int8	224x224x3	per-channel	STM32MP157F-DK2	2 CPU	800 MHz	145.33	NA	NA	100	v6.1.0	TensorFlowLite 2.18.0
SqueezeNet v1.1 tfs	Int8	128x128x3	per-channel	STM32MP135F-DK2	1 CPU	1000 MHz	71.93	NA	NA	100	v6.1.0	TensorFlowLite 2.18.0
SqueezeNet v1.1 tfs	Int8	224x224x3	per-channel	STM32MP135F-DK2	1 CPU	1000 MHz	235.63	NA	NA	100	v6.1.0	TensorFlowLite 2.18.0

** To get the most out of MP25 NPU hardware acceleration, please use per-tensor quantization

** Note: On STM32MP2 devices, per-channel quantized models are internally converted to per-tensor quantization by the compiler using an entropy-based method. This may introduce a slight loss in accuracy compared to the original per-channel models.

Accuracy with Flowers dataset

Dataset details: link , License CC BY 2.0 , Quotation[1] , Number of classes: 5, Number of images: 3 670

Model	Format	Resolution	Top 1 Accuracy
SqueezeNet v1.1 tfs	Float	128x128x3	80.93 %
SqueezeNet v1.1 tfs	Int8	128x128x3	80.93 %
SqueezeNet v1.1 tfs	Float	224x224x3	85.29 %
SqueezeNet v1.1 tfs	Int8	224x224x3	83.24 %

Accuracy with Food-101 dataset

Dataset details: link, Quotation[[3]](# 3) , Number of classes: 101 , Number of images: 101 000

Model	Format	Resolution	Top 1 Accuracy
SqueezeNet v1.1 tfs	Float	128x128x3	60.28 %
SqueezeNet v1.1 tfs	Int8	128x128x3	60.17 %
SqueezeNet v1.1 tfs	Float	224x224x3	68.08 %
SqueezeNet v1.1 tfs	Int8	224x224x3	67.3 %

Accuracy with Plant-village dataset

Dataset details: link , License CC0 1.0, Quotation[2] , Number of classes: 39, Number of images: 61 486

Model	Format	Resolution	Top 1 Accuracy
SqueezeNet v1.1 tfs	Float	128x128x3	99.77 %
SqueezeNet v1.1 tfs	Int8	128x128x3	99.69 %
SqueezeNet v1.1 tfs	Float	224x224x3	99.88 %
SqueezeNet v1.1 tfs	Int8	224x224x3	99.74 %

Retraining and Integration in a simple example:

Please refer to the stm32ai-modelzoo-services GitHub here

References

[1] "Tf_flowers : tensorflow datasets," TensorFlow. [Online]. Available: https://www.tensorflow.org/datasets/catalog/tf_flowers.

[2] J, ARUN PANDIAN; GOPAL, GEETHARAMANI (2019), "Data for: Identification of Plant Leaf Diseases Using a 9-layer Deep Convolutional Neural Network", Mendeley Data, V1, doi: 10.17632/tywbtsjrjv.1

[3] L. Bossard, M. Guillaumin, and L. Van Gool, "Food-101 -- Mining Discriminative Components with Random Forests." European Conference on Computer Vision, 2014.