Project AURIONAI Use-Cases Research & Innovation
MIT Han Lab
TinyMLfamily

MCUNet

MIT Han Lab system for running neural networks on microcontrollers; last dated news Mar 2024 (low activity).

MCUNet demo frames: person detection and wake words running on a microcontroller.
Levelfamily
ClassTinyML
Parametersnot in the notes
Contextnot in the notes
Releasednot in the notes
Opennessopen source
Runs onmicrocontroller
Statusactive

Benchmark Results

vendor-reported
mcunet-in4int8, top-1vendor-reported
68
050100

Score in %. Higher is better.

mcunet-vww2int8vendor-reported
91.8
050100

Score in %. Higher is better.

Where this comes from
Every score names who ran it: vendor-reported, maintainer-run or independent. A rank is shown with the population it was ranked in (gap rule 3).

Lineage

MIT Han Labmcunet-in4 belongs to this familyTinyML
MIT Han Labmcunet-vww2 belongs to this familyTinyML
Where this comes from
Parent and child relations from model cards, Hugging Face base_model fields and the genealogy tables of the research notes. Confidence and evidence are the notes' own.

R&D Topics

Runtimes

Identity

Developer
MIT Han Lab
Family
not in the notes
Released
– sources
Weights published
–
Record checked
10 Oct 2026
Where this comes from
Developer and dates from the research notes. Release date is the vendor's public announcement; weights date is when open weights were published.

Architecture and Size

Architecture
CNN TinyNAS neural architecture search co-designed with TinyEngine inference engine
Total parameters
– sources
Active parameters
–
Checkpoint parameters
–
Context length
not in the notes
Input
text
Output
labels and boxes
Where this comes from
Parameter counts as the developer states them. Where the checkpoint holds a different total, both are shown (register A16).

Openness and Access

Openness
open source
Licence
MIT License sources
Access routes
not in the notes
Where this comes from
The licence file governs over registry tags and aggregator labels.

Deployment

Runs on
microcontroller
Footprint
ImageNet models: SRAM 242 to 456 kB, Flash 878 to 1876 kB; profiled on STM32F746
Runtimes
TinyEngine (MCUNet)
Where this comes from
Deployment tiers and runtimes as named in the notes. Footprint is the notes' figure, not a measurement by AURION.

Indonesia

Indonesian support
not stated
Regional languages
not in the notes
Jakarta hosting
unknown
Languages
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Indonesia fields are carried on every model; unknown is an allowed value.

Industry Use Cases

No industry use case links this model.

Sources

To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "MCUNet", https://aurion.semai.id/models/mit-han-lab-mcunet/, records of October 2026.