[6gvONxR4sf7o]

> But why are people still reporting benchmark results on VGG?

It makes me feel like i’m missing something! Is is still used as a backbone in the same way as legacy code is everywhere, or is it something else entirely??

[sanxiyn]

VGG works better for style transfer than ResNet (this is a surprising result, but empirically true), but that's the only case I am aware of.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.05623