diff --git a/configs/_base_/models/mobilenet_v1.py b/configs/_base_/models/mobilenet_v1.py
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+# model settings
+model = dict(
+    type='ImageClassifier',
+    backbone=dict(type='MobileNetV1', width_mult=1.0),
+    neck=dict(type='GlobalAveragePooling'),
+    head=dict(
+        type='LinearClsHead',
+        num_classes=1000,
+        in_channels=1024,
+        loss=dict(type='CrossEntropyLoss', loss_weight=1.0),
+        topk=(1, 5),
+    ))
diff --git a/mmpretrain/models/backbones/mobilenet_v1.py b/mmpretrain/models/backbones/mobilenet_v1.py
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+# Copyright (c) OpenMMLab. All rights reserved.
+import torch.nn as nn
+from mmcv.cnn import ConvModule
+from torch.nn.modules.batchnorm import _BatchNorm
+
+from mmpretrain.registry import MODELS
+from .base_backbone import BaseBackbone
+
+
+@MODELS.register_module()
+class MobileNetV1(BaseBackbone):
+    """MobileNetV1 backbone for image classification.
+
+    Args:
+        input_channels (int): The input channels of the image tensor.
+        conv_cfg (dict): Config dict for convolution layer. Default: None.
+        frozen_stages (int): Stages to be frozen (all param fixed).
+                            -1 means not freezing any parameters.
+                            Default: -1.
+        norm_cfg (dict): Config dict for normalization layer.
+                        Default: dict(type='BN').
+        act_cfg (dict): Config dict for activation layer.
+                        Default: dict(type='ReLU').
+        norm_eval (bool): Whether to set norm layers to eval mode, namely,
+            freeze running stats (mean and var). Note: Effect on Batch Norm
+            and its variants only. Default: False.
+        with_cp (bool): Use checkpoint or not.
+                Using checkpoint will save some memory while slowing down the
+                        training speed.
+                        Default: False.
+        init_cfg (list[dict]): Initialization config dict. Default: [
+            dict(type='Kaiming', layer=['Conv2d']),
+            dict(type='Constant', val=1, layer=['_BatchNorm', 'GroupNorm'])
+        ].
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self,
+                 input_channels,
+                 conv_cfg=None,
+                 frozen_stages=-1,
+                 norm_cfg=dict(type='BN'),
+                 act_cfg=dict(type='ReLU'),
+                 norm_eval=False,
+                 with_cp=False,
+                 init_cfg=[
+                     dict(type='Kaiming', layer=['Conv2d']),
+                     dict(
+                         type='Constant',
+                         val=1,
+                         layer=['_BatchNorm', 'GroupNorm'])
+                 ]):
+        super(MobileNetV1, self).__init__(init_cfg)
+        self.arch_settings = [[32, 64, 1], [64, 128, 2], [128, 128, 1],
+                              [128, 256, 2], [256, 256, 1], [256, 512, 2],
+                              [512, 512, 1], [512, 512, 1], [512, 512, 1],
+                              [512, 512, 1], [512, 512, 1], [512, 1024, 2],
+                              [1024, 1024, 1]]
+        if frozen_stages not in range(-1, 8):
+            raise ValueError('frozen_stages must be in range(-1, 8). '
+                             f'But received {frozen_stages}')
+        self.in_channels = input_channels
+        self.frozen_stages = frozen_stages
+        self.conv_cfg = conv_cfg
+        self.norm_cfg = norm_cfg
+        self.act_cfg = act_cfg
+        self.norm_eval = norm_eval
+        self.with_cp = with_cp
+        self.layers = []
+
+        # Add the first convolution layer to layers
+        layer = ConvModule(
+            in_channels=self.in_channels,
+            out_channels=32,
+            kernel_size=3,
+            stride=2,
+            padding=1,
+            conv_cfg=self.conv_cfg,
+            norm_cfg=self.norm_cfg,
+            act_cfg=self.act_cfg)
+        self.layers.append(layer)
+
+        for layer_cfg in (self.arch_settings):
+            in_ch, out_ch, stride = layer_cfg
+            intermediate_layer = []
+            depthwise_layer = ConvModule(
+                in_channels=in_ch,
+                out_channels=in_ch,
+                kernel_size=3,
+                stride=stride,
+                padding=1,
+                groups=in_ch,
+                conv_cfg=self.conv_cfg,
+                norm_cfg=self.norm_cfg,
+                act_cfg=self.act_cfg)
+            pointwise_layer = ConvModule(
+                in_channels=in_ch,
+                out_channels=out_ch,
+                kernel_size=1,
+                stride=1,
+                padding=0,
+                conv_cfg=self.conv_cfg,
+                norm_cfg=self.norm_cfg,
+                act_cfg=self.act_cfg)
+            intermediate_layer = nn.Sequential(depthwise_layer,
+                                               pointwise_layer)
+            self.layers.append(intermediate_layer)
+        self.model = nn.Sequential(*self.layers)
+
+    def forward(self, x):
+        outs = []
+        for i, layer_name in enumerate(self.layers):
+            layer = getattr(self, layer_name)
+            x = layer(x)
+            if i in self.out_indices:
+                outs.append(x)
+
+        return tuple(outs)
+
+    def _freeze_stages(self):
+        if self.frozen_stages >= 0:
+            for i in range(0, self.frozen_stages + 1):
+                layer = getattr(self, f'layer{i}')
+                layer.eval()
+                for param in layer.parameters():
+                    param.requires_grad = False
+
+    def train(self, mode=True):
+        super(MobileNetV1, self).train(mode)
+        self._freeze_stages()
+        if mode and self.norm_eval:
+            for m in self.modules():
+                if isinstance(m, _BatchNorm):
+                    m.eval()
diff --git a/tests/test_models/test_backbones/test_mobilenet_v1.py b/tests/test_models/test_backbones/test_mobilenet_v1.py
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+# Copyright (c) OpenMMLab. All rights reserved.
+import pytest
+import torch
+from torch.nn.modules import GroupNorm
+from torch.nn.modules.batchnorm import _BatchNorm
+
+from mmpretrain.models.backbones import MobileNetV1
+
+def is_norm(modules):
+    """Check if is one of the norms."""
+    if isinstance(modules, (GroupNorm, _BatchNorm)):
+        return True
+    return False
+
+
+def check_norm_state(modules, train_state):
+    """Check if norm layer is in correct train state."""
+    for mod in modules:
+        if isinstance(mod, _BatchNorm):
+            if mod.training != train_state:
+                return False
+    return True
+
+def test_mobilenetv1_backbone():
+    with pytest.raises(TypeError):
+        # pretrained must be a string path
+        model = MobileNetV1()
+        model.init_weights(pretrained=0)
+
+    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
+        # frozen_stages must in range(-1, 8)
+        MobileNetV1(frozen_stages=8)
+
+
+    # Test MobileNetV2 with first stage frozen
+    frozen_stages = 1
+    model = MobileNetV1(frozen_stages=frozen_stages)
+    model.init_weights()
+    model.train()
+
+    for mod in model.modules():
+        for param in mod.parameters():
+            assert param.requires_grad is False
+    for i in range(1, frozen_stages + 1):
+        layer = getattr(model, f'layer{i}')
+        for mod in layer.modules():
+            if isinstance(mod, _BatchNorm):
+                assert mod.training is False
+        for param in layer.parameters():
+            assert param.requires_grad is False
+
+    # Test MobileNetV2 with norm_eval=True
+    model = MobileNetV1(norm_eval=True)
+    model.init_weights()
+    model.train()
+
+    assert check_norm_state(model.modules(), False)
+
+    
+    # Test MobileNetV2 forward with dict(type='ReLU')
+    model = MobileNetV1(act_cfg=dict(type='ReLU'))
+    model.init_weights()
+    model.train()
+
+    imgs = torch.randn(1, 3, 224, 224)
+    feat = model(imgs)
+    assert len(feat) == 7
+    assert feat[0].shape == torch.Size((1, 16, 112, 112))
+    assert feat[1].shape == torch.Size((1, 24, 56, 56))
+    assert feat[2].shape == torch.Size((1, 32, 28, 28))
+    assert feat[3].shape == torch.Size((1, 64, 14, 14))
+    assert feat[4].shape == torch.Size((1, 96, 14, 14))
+    assert feat[5].shape == torch.Size((1, 160, 7, 7))
+    assert feat[6].shape == torch.Size((1, 320, 7, 7))
+
+    # Test MobileNetV2 with BatchNorm forward
+    model = MobileNetV1()
+    for m in model.modules():
+        if is_norm(m):
+            assert isinstance(m, _BatchNorm)
+    model.init_weights()
+    model.train()
+
+    imgs = torch.randn(1, 3, 224, 224)
+    feat = model(imgs)
+    assert len(feat) == 7
+    assert feat[0].shape == torch.Size((1, 16, 112, 112))
+    assert feat[1].shape == torch.Size((1, 24, 56, 56))
+    assert feat[2].shape == torch.Size((1, 32, 28, 28))
+    assert feat[3].shape == torch.Size((1, 64, 14, 14))
+    assert feat[4].shape == torch.Size((1, 96, 14, 14))
+    assert feat[5].shape == torch.Size((1, 160, 7, 7))
+    assert feat[6].shape == torch.Size((1, 320, 7, 7))
+
+    # Test MobileNetV2 with GroupNorm forward
+    model = MobileNetV1(
+        norm_cfg=dict(type='GN', num_groups=2, requires_grad=True))
+    for m in model.modules():
+        if is_norm(m):
+            assert isinstance(m, GroupNorm)
+    model.init_weights()
+    model.train()
+
+    imgs = torch.randn(1, 3, 224, 224)
+    feat = model(imgs)
+    assert len(feat) == 7
+    assert feat[0].shape == torch.Size((1, 16, 112, 112))
+    assert feat[1].shape == torch.Size((1, 24, 56, 56))
+    assert feat[2].shape == torch.Size((1, 32, 28, 28))
+    assert feat[3].shape == torch.Size((1, 64, 14, 14))
+    assert feat[4].shape == torch.Size((1, 96, 14, 14))
+    assert feat[5].shape == torch.Size((1, 160, 7, 7))
+    assert feat[6].shape == torch.Size((1, 320, 7, 7))
+
+    
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