I Tried to Run VGG19 on a CPU… It Failed. So I Fixed It."

"Turning a 500MB deep learning model into something actually usable using pruning, quantization, and simple tricks" Deep learning models look impressive when you read about them. High accuracy, benchmark scores, state-of-the-art results. But the moment you try to actually use one in a real system, things feel very different. That’s exactly what happened when I started working with VGG19. The problem I ran into I picked VGG19 because it's simple and widely used. It felt like a safe choice. But wh