Lightweight Face Recognition

Description from the archive archive 2025-07-28.

Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

7 leaderboard tables shown for this task, 7 with rows (a “benchmark” on this site is a table with at least one row, as on /sota), ordered by row count. “Best model” is the first row in the archive's own order at snapshot; nothing is re-ranked here and metric direction is not recorded in the archive. PwC's Trend sparklines are not in the archive, so that column is omitted.

Syntology column: samples harvested from the paper's repositories and executed on synthesized fixtures; “ran” is not a correctness claim and does not order the table. A dash means no Syntology record for that paper, not a recorded non-run. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.

Libraries

Not in the archive: the export carries no per-task library table, so there is nothing to show at snapshot 2025-07-28.

Datasets archive 2025-07-28

6 datasets whose archive record lists this task, ordered by the archive's paper count.

Subtasks archive 2025-07-28

No subtask under this task in the archive's task tree.

Parent tasks archive 2025-07-28

Most implemented papers archive 2025-07-28

12 shown of 12 papers with code (14 tagged with this task in all), ordered by repositories listed in the archive, not by stars (the archive holds no stars, so PwC's “Social” and “Latest” sorts cannot be reproduced). Papers without a page here are shown as plain text.

• MobileFaceNets: Efficient CNNs for Accurate Real-Time Face Verification on Mobile Devices
  20 Apr 2018 17 repositories listed Syntology ran 14 of 40 samples · 26 unverified · 9 pointer-only (licence)
  Face Analysis Project on MXNet
• GhostFaceNets: Lightweight Face Recognition Model From Cheap Operations
  10 Apr 2023 7 repositories listed
  The development of deep learning-based biometric models that can be deployed on devices with constrained memory and computational resources has proven to be a significant challenge.
• SeesawFaceNets: sparse and robust face verification model for mobile platform
  24 Aug 2019 6 repositories listed Syntology ran 7 of 17 samples · 10 unverified · 5 pointer-only (licence)
  Therefore, designing lightweight networks with low memory requirement and computational cost is one of the most practical solutions for face verification on mobile platform.
• EdgeFace: Efficient Face Recognition Model for Edge Devices
  4 Jul 2023 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 2 of 2 samples · 0 unverified · 2 pointer-only (licence)
  In this paper, we present EdgeFace, a lightweight and efficient face recognition network inspired by the hybrid architecture of EdgeNeXt.
• VarGFaceNet: An Efficient Variable Group Convolutional Neural Network for Lightweight Face Recognition
  11 Oct 2019 3 repositories listed
  To improve the discriminative and generalization ability of lightweight network for face recognition, we propose an efficient variable group convolutional network called VarGFaceNet.
• SynthDistill: Face Recognition with Knowledge Distillation from Synthetic Data
  28 Aug 2023 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 1 samples · 0 unverified · 1 pointer-only (licence)
  While generating synthetic datasets for training face recognition models is an alternative option, it is challenging to generate synthetic data with sufficient intra-class variations.
• ShrinkTeaNet: Million-scale Lightweight Face Recognition via Shrinking Teacher-Student Networks
  25 May 2019 2 repositories listed
  In addition, this work introduces a novel Angular Distillation Loss for distilling the feature direction and the sample distributions of the teacher's hypersphere to its student.
• EFaR 2023: Efficient Face Recognition Competition
  8 Aug 2023 1 repository listed
  To drive further development of efficient face recognition models, the submitted solutions are ranked based on a weighted score of the achieved verification accuracies on a diverse set of benchmarks, as well as the…
• QuantFace: Towards Lightweight Face Recognition by Synthetic Data Low-bit Quantization
  21 Jun 2022 1 repository listed
  Deep learning-based face recognition models follow the common trend in deep neural networks by utilizing full-precision floating-point networks with high computational costs.
• PocketNet: Extreme Lightweight Face Recognition Network using Neural Architecture Search and Multi-Step Knowledge Distillation
  24 Aug 2021 1 repository listed
  However, this limits the deployment of such models that contain an extremely large number of parameters to embedded and low-end devices.
• MixFaceNets: Extremely Efficient Face Recognition Networks
  27 Jul 2021 1 repository listed
  In this paper, we present a set of extremely efficient and high throughput models for accurate face verification, MixFaceNets which are inspired by Mixed Depthwise Convolutional Kernels.
• Towards Flops-constrained Face Recognition
  2 Sep 2019 1 repository listed
  Large scale face recognition is challenging especially when the computational budget is limited.

Syntology lines on 4 of the papers shown; no Syntology record for the others (a paper without an arXiv id cannot be joined to the graph, and absence from the graph layer is not a recorded non-run). “Ran” means the sample executed on a synthesized fixture, not that the paper's result was reproduced. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.