diff --git a/ppcls/arch/backbone/__init__.py b/ppcls/arch/backbone/__init__.py
index 737f34d75914f4d2098a092ddd96257676ae1651..b62b5a64df348e257beee174eeb5bff1007f1d3e 100644
--- a/ppcls/arch/backbone/__init__.py
+++ b/ppcls/arch/backbone/__init__.py
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ from ppcls.arch.backbone.model_zoo.cspnet import CSPDarkNet53
 from ppcls.arch.backbone.model_zoo.pvt_v2 import PVT_V2_B0, PVT_V2_B1, PVT_V2_B2_Linear, PVT_V2_B2, PVT_V2_B3, PVT_V2_B4, PVT_V2_B5
 from ppcls.arch.backbone.model_zoo.mobilevit import MobileViT_XXS, MobileViT_XS, MobileViT_S
 from ppcls.arch.backbone.model_zoo.repvgg import RepVGG_A0, RepVGG_A1, RepVGG_A2, RepVGG_B0, RepVGG_B1, RepVGG_B2, RepVGG_B1g2, RepVGG_B1g4, RepVGG_B2g4, RepVGG_B3g4
+from ppcls.arch.backbone.model_zoo.van import VAN_tiny
 from ppcls.arch.backbone.variant_models.resnet_variant import ResNet50_last_stage_stride1
 from ppcls.arch.backbone.variant_models.vgg_variant import VGG19Sigmoid
 from ppcls.arch.backbone.variant_models.pp_lcnet_variant import PPLCNet_x2_5_Tanh
diff --git a/ppcls/arch/backbone/model_zoo/van.py b/ppcls/arch/backbone/model_zoo/van.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8cef8c96c59a167bd8a129909d68a0c942a08d3a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ppcls/arch/backbone/model_zoo/van.py
@@ -0,0 +1,312 @@
+# copyright (c) 2021 PaddlePaddle Authors. All Rights Reserve.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# Code was heavily based on https://github.com/Visual-Attention-Network/VAN-Classification
+
+from functools import partial
+import math
+import paddle
+import paddle.nn as nn
+from paddle.nn.initializer import TruncatedNormal, Constant
+
+from ppcls.utils.save_load import load_dygraph_pretrain, load_dygraph_pretrain_from_url
+
+MODEL_URLS = {
+    "VAN_tiny": "",  # TODO
+}
+
+__all__ = list(MODEL_URLS.keys())
+
+trunc_normal_ = TruncatedNormal(std=.02)
+zeros_ = Constant(value=0.)
+ones_ = Constant(value=1.)
+
+
+def drop_path(x, drop_prob=0., training=False):
+    """Drop paths (Stochastic Depth) per sample (when applied in main path of residual blocks).
+    the original name is misleading as 'Drop Connect' is a different form of dropout in a separate paper...
+    See discussion: https://github.com/tensorflow/tpu/issues/494#issuecomment-532968956 ...
+    """
+    if drop_prob == 0. or not training:
+        return x
+    keep_prob = paddle.to_tensor(1 - drop_prob)
+    shape = (paddle.shape(x)[0], ) + (1, ) * (x.ndim - 1)
+    random_tensor = keep_prob + paddle.rand(shape, dtype=x.dtype)
+    random_tensor = paddle.floor(random_tensor)  # binarize
+    output = x.divide(keep_prob) * random_tensor
+    return output
+
+
+class DropPath(nn.Layer):
+    """Drop paths (Stochastic Depth) per sample  (when applied in main path of residual blocks).
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, drop_prob=None):
+        super(DropPath, self).__init__()
+        self.drop_prob = drop_prob
+
+    def forward(self, x):
+        return drop_path(x, self.drop_prob, self.training)
+
+
+@paddle.jit.not_to_static
+def swapdim(x, dim1, dim2):
+    a = list(range(len(x.shape)))
+    a[dim1], a[dim2] = a[dim2], a[dim1]
+    return x.transpose(a)
+
+
+class Mlp(nn.Layer):
+    def __init__(self,
+                 in_features,
+                 hidden_features=None,
+                 out_features=None,
+                 act_layer=nn.GELU,
+                 drop=0.):
+        super().__init__()
+        out_features = out_features or in_features
+        hidden_features = hidden_features or in_features
+        self.fc1 = nn.Conv2D(in_features, hidden_features, 1)
+        self.dwconv = DWConv(hidden_features)
+        self.act = act_layer()
+        self.fc2 = nn.Conv2D(hidden_features, out_features, 1)
+        self.drop = nn.Dropout(drop)
+
+    def forward(self, x):
+        x = self.fc1(x)
+        x = self.dwconv(x)
+        x = self.act(x)
+        x = self.drop(x)
+        x = self.fc2(x)
+        x = self.drop(x)
+        return x
+
+
+class LKA(nn.Layer):
+    def __init__(self, dim):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.conv0 = nn.Conv2D(dim, dim, 5, padding=2, groups=dim)
+        self.conv_spatial = nn.Conv2D(
+            dim, dim, 7, stride=1, padding=9, groups=dim, dilation=3)
+        self.conv1 = nn.Conv2D(dim, dim, 1)
+
+    def forward(self, x):
+        attn = self.conv0(x)
+        attn = self.conv_spatial(attn)
+        attn = self.conv1(attn)
+        return x * attn
+
+
+class Attention(nn.Layer):
+    def __init__(self, d_model):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.proj_1 = nn.Conv2D(d_model, d_model, 1)
+        self.activation = nn.GELU()
+        self.spatial_gating_unit = LKA(d_model)
+        self.proj_2 = nn.Conv2D(d_model, d_model, 1)
+
+    def forward(self, x):
+        shorcut = x
+        x = self.proj_1(x)
+        x = self.activation(x)
+        x = self.spatial_gating_unit(x)
+        x = self.proj_2(x)
+        x = x + shorcut
+        return x
+
+
+class Block(nn.Layer):
+    def __init__(self,
+                 dim,
+                 mlp_ratio=4.,
+                 drop=0.,
+                 drop_path=0.,
+                 act_layer=nn.GELU):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.norm1 = nn.BatchNorm2D(dim)
+        self.attn = Attention(dim)
+        self.drop_path = DropPath(
+            drop_path) if drop_path > 0. else nn.Identity()
+        self.norm2 = nn.BatchNorm2D(dim)
+        mlp_hidden_dim = int(dim * mlp_ratio)
+        self.mlp = Mlp(in_features=dim,
+                       hidden_features=mlp_hidden_dim,
+                       act_layer=act_layer,
+                       drop=drop)
+        layer_scale_init_value = 1e-2
+        self.layer_scale_1 = self.create_parameter(
+            shape=[dim, 1, 1],
+            default_initializer=Constant(value=layer_scale_init_value))
+        self.layer_scale_2 = self.create_parameter(
+            shape=[dim, 1, 1],
+            default_initializer=Constant(value=layer_scale_init_value))
+
+    def forward(self, x):
+        x = x + self.drop_path(self.layer_scale_1 * self.attn(self.norm1(x)))
+        x = x + self.drop_path(self.layer_scale_2 * self.mlp(self.norm2(x)))
+        return x
+
+
+class OverlapPatchEmbed(nn.Layer):
+    """ Image to Patch Embedding
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self,
+                 img_size=224,
+                 patch_size=7,
+                 stride=4,
+                 in_chans=3,
+                 embed_dim=768):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.proj = nn.Conv2D(
+            in_chans,
+            embed_dim,
+            kernel_size=patch_size,
+            stride=stride,
+            padding=patch_size // 2)
+        self.norm = nn.BatchNorm2D(embed_dim)
+
+    def forward(self, x):
+        x = self.proj(x)
+        _, _, H, W = x.shape
+        x = self.norm(x)
+        return x, H, W
+
+
+class VAN(nn.Layer):
+    def __init__(self,
+                 img_size=224,
+                 in_chans=3,
+                 class_num=1000,
+                 embed_dims=[64, 128, 256, 512],
+                 mlp_ratios=[4, 4, 4, 4],
+                 drop_rate=0.,
+                 drop_path_rate=0.,
+                 norm_layer=nn.LayerNorm,
+                 depths=[3, 4, 6, 3],
+                 num_stages=4,
+                 flag=False):
+        super().__init__()
+        if flag == False:
+            self.class_num = class_num
+        self.depths = depths
+        self.num_stages = num_stages
+
+        dpr = [x for x in paddle.linspace(0, drop_path_rate, sum(depths))
+               ]  # stochastic depth decay rule
+        cur = 0
+
+        for i in range(num_stages):
+            patch_embed = OverlapPatchEmbed(
+                img_size=img_size if i == 0 else img_size // (2**(i + 1)),
+                patch_size=7 if i == 0 else 3,
+                stride=4 if i == 0 else 2,
+                in_chans=in_chans if i == 0 else embed_dims[i - 1],
+                embed_dim=embed_dims[i])
+
+            block = nn.LayerList([
+                Block(
+                    dim=embed_dims[i],
+                    mlp_ratio=mlp_ratios[i],
+                    drop=drop_rate,
+                    drop_path=dpr[cur + j]) for j in range(depths[i])
+            ])
+            norm = norm_layer(embed_dims[i])
+            cur += depths[i]
+
+            setattr(self, f"patch_embed{i + 1}", patch_embed)
+            setattr(self, f"block{i + 1}", block)
+            setattr(self, f"norm{i + 1}", norm)
+
+        # classification head
+        self.head = nn.Linear(embed_dims[3],
+                              class_num) if class_num > 0 else nn.Identity()
+
+        self.apply(self._init_weights)
+
+    def _init_weights(self, m):
+        if isinstance(m, nn.Linear):
+            trunc_normal_(m.weight)
+            if isinstance(m, nn.Linear) and m.bias is not None:
+                zeros_(m.bias)
+        elif isinstance(m, nn.LayerNorm):
+            zeros_(m.bias)
+            ones_(m.weight)
+        elif isinstance(m, nn.Conv2D):
+            fan_out = m._kernel_size[0] * m._kernel_size[1] * m._out_channels
+            fan_out //= m._groups
+            m.weight.set_value(
+                paddle.normal(
+                    std=math.sqrt(2.0 / fan_out), shape=m.weight.shape))
+            if m.bias is not None:
+                zeros_(m.bias)
+
+    def forward_features(self, x):
+        B = x.shape[0]
+
+        for i in range(self.num_stages):
+            patch_embed = getattr(self, f"patch_embed{i + 1}")
+            block = getattr(self, f"block{i + 1}")
+            norm = getattr(self, f"norm{i + 1}")
+            x, H, W = patch_embed(x)
+            for blk in block:
+                x = blk(x)
+            x = x.flatten(2)
+            x = swapdim(x, 1, 2)
+            x = norm(x)
+            if i != self.num_stages - 1:
+                x = x.reshape([B, H, W, x.shape[2]]).transpose([0, 3, 1, 2])
+
+        return x.mean(axis=1)
+
+    def forward(self, x):
+        x = self.forward_features(x)
+        x = self.head(x)
+
+        return x
+
+
+class DWConv(nn.Layer):
+    def __init__(self, dim=768):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.dwconv = nn.Conv2D(dim, dim, 3, 1, 1, bias_attr=True, groups=dim)
+
+    def forward(self, x):
+        x = self.dwconv(x)
+        return x
+
+
+def _load_pretrained(pretrained, model, model_url, use_ssld=False):
+    if pretrained is False:
+        pass
+    elif pretrained is True:
+        load_dygraph_pretrain_from_url(model, model_url, use_ssld=use_ssld)
+    elif isinstance(pretrained, str):
+        load_dygraph_pretrain(model, pretrained)
+    else:
+        raise RuntimeError(
+            "pretrained type is not available. Please use `string` or `boolean` type."
+        )
+
+
+def VAN_tiny(pretrained=False, use_ssld=False, **kwargs):
+    model = VAN(embed_dims=[32, 64, 160, 256],
+                mlp_ratios=[8, 8, 4, 4],
+                norm_layer=partial(
+                    nn.LayerNorm, epsilon=1e-6),
+                depths=[3, 3, 5, 2],
+                **kwargs)
+    _load_pretrained(
+        pretrained, model, MODEL_URLS["VAN_tiny"], use_ssld=use_ssld)
+    return model
diff --git a/ppcls/configs/ImageNet/VAN/VAN_tiny.yaml b/ppcls/configs/ImageNet/VAN/VAN_tiny.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ae08dcfa9e99d0ccab4f051abe9351ff61c9b736
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ppcls/configs/ImageNet/VAN/VAN_tiny.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,158 @@
+# global configs
+Global:
+  checkpoints: null
+  pretrained_model: null
+  output_dir: ./output/
+  device: gpu
+  save_interval: 1
+  eval_during_train: True
+  eval_interval: 1
+  epochs: 300
+  print_batch_step: 10
+  use_visualdl: False
+  # used for static mode and model export
+  image_shape: [3, 224, 224]
+  save_inference_dir: ./inference
+  # training model under @to_static
+  to_static: False
+
+# model architecture
+Arch:
+  name: VAN_tiny
+  class_num: 1000
+  drop_path_rate: 0.1
+  drop_rate: 0.0
+ 
+# loss function config for traing/eval process
+Loss:
+  Train:
+    - CELoss:
+        weight: 1.0
+        epsilon: 0.1
+  Eval:
+    - CELoss:
+        weight: 1.0
+
+Optimizer:
+  name: AdamW
+  beta1: 0.9
+  beta2: 0.999
+  epsilon: 1e-8
+  weight_decay: 0.05
+  one_dim_param_no_weight_decay: True
+  lr:
+    name: Cosine
+    learning_rate: 1e-3
+    eta_min: 1e-6
+    warmup_epoch: 5
+    warmup_start_lr: 1e-6
+
+# data loader for train and eval
+DataLoader:
+  Train:
+    dataset:
+      name: ImageNetDataset
+      image_root: ./dataset/ILSVRC2012/
+      cls_label_path: ./dataset/ILSVRC2012/train_list.txt
+      transform_ops:
+        - DecodeImage:
+            to_rgb: True
+            channel_first: False
+        - RandCropImage:
+            size: 224
+            interpolation: random
+            backend: pil
+        - RandFlipImage:
+            flip_code: 1
+        - TimmAutoAugment:
+            config_str: rand-m9-mstd0.5-inc1
+            interpolation: random
+            img_size: 224
+            mean: [0.5, 0.5, 0.5]
+        - NormalizeImage:
+            scale: 1.0/255.0
+            mean: [0.5, 0.5, 0.5]
+            std: [0.5, 0.5, 0.5]
+            order: ''
+        - RandomErasing:
+            EPSILON: 0.25
+            sl: 0.02
+            sh: 1.0/3.0
+            r1: 0.3
+            attempt: 10
+            use_log_aspect: True
+            mode: pixel
+      batch_transform_ops:
+        - OpSampler:
+            MixupOperator:
+              alpha: 0.8
+              prob: 0.5
+            CutmixOperator:
+              alpha: 1.0
+              prob: 0.5
+    sampler:
+      name: DistributedBatchSampler
+      batch_size: 256
+      drop_last: True
+      shuffle: True
+    loader:
+      num_workers: 4
+      use_shared_memory: True
+
+  Eval:
+    dataset: 
+      name: ImageNetDataset
+      image_root: ./dataset/ILSVRC2012/
+      cls_label_path: ./dataset/ILSVRC2012/val_list.txt
+      transform_ops:
+        - DecodeImage:
+            to_rgb: True
+            channel_first: False
+        - ResizeImage:
+            resize_short: 248
+            interpolation: bicubic
+            backend: pil
+        - CropImage:
+            size: 224
+        - NormalizeImage:
+            scale: 1.0/255.0
+            mean: [0.5, 0.5, 0.5]
+            std: [0.5, 0.5, 0.5]
+            order: ''
+    sampler:
+      name: DistributedBatchSampler
+      batch_size: 256
+      drop_last: False
+      shuffle: False
+    loader:
+      num_workers: 4
+      use_shared_memory: True
+
+Infer:
+  infer_imgs: docs/images/inference_deployment/whl_demo.jpg
+  batch_size: 10
+  transforms:
+    - DecodeImage:
+        to_rgb: True
+        channel_first: False
+    - ResizeImage:
+        resize_short: 248
+        interpolation: bicubic
+        backend: pil
+    - CropImage:
+        size: 224
+    - NormalizeImage:
+        scale: 1.0/255.0
+        mean: [0.5, 0.5, 0.5]
+        std: [0.5, 0.5, 0.5]
+        order: ''
+    - ToCHWImage:
+  PostProcess:
+    name: Topk
+    topk: 5
+    class_id_map_file: ppcls/utils/imagenet1k_label_list.txt
+
+Metric:
+  Eval:
+    - TopkAcc:
+        topk: [1, 5]
diff --git a/test_tipc/config/VAN/VAN_tiny.txt b/test_tipc/config/VAN/VAN_tiny.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4ad311b58a653c38e9ae2d656024023102c46737
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test_tipc/config/VAN/VAN_tiny.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+===========================train_params===========================
+model_name:VAN_tiny
+python:python3.7
+gpu_list:0|0,1
+-o Global.device:gpu
+-o Global.auto_cast:null
+-o Global.epochs:lite_train_lite_infer=2|whole_train_whole_infer=120
+-o Global.output_dir:./output/
+-o DataLoader.Train.sampler.batch_size:8
+-o Global.pretrained_model:null
+train_model_name:latest
+train_infer_img_dir:./dataset/ILSVRC2012/val
+null:null
+##
+trainer:norm_train
+norm_train:tools/train.py -c ppcls/configs/ImageNet/VAN/VAN_tiny.yaml -o Global.seed=1234 -o DataLoader.Train.sampler.shuffle=False -o DataLoader.Train.loader.num_workers=0 -o DataLoader.Train.loader.use_shared_memory=False
+pact_train:null
+fpgm_train:null
+distill_train:null
+null:null
+null:null
+##
+===========================eval_params=========================== 
+eval:tools/eval.py -c ppcls/configs/ImageNet/VAN/VAN_tiny.yaml
+null:null
+##
+===========================infer_params==========================
+-o Global.save_inference_dir:./inference
+-o Global.pretrained_model:
+norm_export:tools/export_model.py -c ppcls/configs/ImageNet/VAN/VAN_tiny.yaml
+quant_export:null
+fpgm_export:null
+distill_export:null
+kl_quant:null
+export2:null
+inference_dir:null
+infer_model:../inference/
+infer_export:True
+infer_quant:Fasle
+inference:python/predict_cls.py -c configs/inference_cls.yaml -o PreProcess.transform_ops.0.ResizeImage.resize_short=248 -o PreProcess.transform_ops.2.NormalizeImage.mean=[0.5,0.5,0.5] -o PreProcess.transform_ops.2.NormalizeImage.std=[0.5,0.5,0.5]
+-o Global.use_gpu:True|False
+-o Global.enable_mkldnn:True|False
+-o Global.cpu_num_threads:1|6
+-o Global.batch_size:1|16
+-o Global.use_tensorrt:True|False
+-o Global.use_fp16:True|False
+-o Global.inference_model_dir:../inference
+-o Global.infer_imgs:../dataset/ILSVRC2012/val
+-o Global.save_log_path:null
+-o Global.benchmark:True
+null:null
+null:null
+===========================train_benchmark_params==========================
+batch_size:128
+fp_items:fp32
+epoch:1
+--profiler_options:batch_range=[10,20];state=GPU;tracer_option=Default;profile_path=model.profile
+flags:FLAGS_eager_delete_tensor_gb=0.0;FLAGS_fraction_of_gpu_memory_to_use=0.98;FLAGS_conv_workspace_size_limit=4096