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Artificial intelligence (AI) research today is largely driven by ever-larger neural network models trained on graphics processing units (GPUs). This paradigm has yielded remarkable progress, but it also risks entrenching a hardware lottery…

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Artificial intelligence (AI) has made remarkable progress in recent years, yet its rapid expansion brings overlooked environmental and ethical challenges. This review explores four critical areas where AI's impact extends beyond…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Jenis Winsta

The race for artificial intelligence (AI) dominance often prioritizes scale over efficiency. Hyper-scaling is the common industry approach: larger models, more data, and as many computational resources as possible. Using more resources is a…

General Economics · Economics 2026-05-08 Marco Bornstein , Amrit Singh Bedi

The increasing usage of Artificial Intelligence (AI) models, especially Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), is increasing the power consumption during training and inference, posing environmental concerns and driving the need for more…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Gabriel Cortês , Nuno Lourenço , Penousal Machado

Today, deep learning optimization is primarily driven by research focused on achieving high inference accuracy and reducing latency. However, the energy efficiency aspect is often overlooked, possibly due to a lack of sustainability mindset…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Xiaolong Tu , Anik Mallik , Dawei Chen , Kyungtae Han , Onur Altintas , Haoxin Wang , Jiang Xie

Deep learning models in computer vision have achieved significant success but pose increasing concerns about energy consumption and sustainability. Despite these concerns, there is a lack of comprehensive understanding of their energy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Zeyu Yang , Karel Adamek , Wesley Armour

Edge AI is often framed as model compression and deployment under tight constraints. We argue a stronger operational thesis: Edge AI in realistic deployments is necessarily adaptive. In long-horizon operation, a fixed (non-adaptive)…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Fabrizio Pittorino , Manuel Roveri

As we march towards the age of ubiquitous intelligence, we note that AI and intelligence are progressively moving from the cloud to the edge. The success of Edge-AI is pivoted on innovative circuits and hardware that can enable inference…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Zishen Wan , Ashwin Sanjay Lele , Arijit Raychowdhury

The field of computer vision has grown very rapidly in the past few years due to networks like convolution neural networks and their variants. The memory required to store the model and computational expense are very high for such a network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Ranjith M S , S Parameshwara , Pavan Yadav A , Shriganesh Hegde

Learn in-situ is a growing trend for Edge AI. Training deep neural network (DNN) on edge devices is challenging because both energy and memory are constrained. Low precision training helps to reduce the energy cost of a single training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Tian Huang , Tao Luo , Joey Tianyi Zhou

Extremely high data rates at modern synchrotron and X-ray free-electron laser light source beamlines motivate the use of machine learning methods for data reduction, feature detection, and other purposes. Regardless of the application, the…

Modern AI practices all strive towards the same goal: better results. In the context of deep learning, the term "results" often refers to the achieved accuracy on a competitive problem set. In this paper, we adopt an idea from the emerging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Tim Yarally , Luís Cruz , Daniel Feitosa , June Sallou , Arie van Deursen

Edge intelligence enables AI inference at the network edge, co-located with or near the radio access network, rather than in centralized clouds or on mobile devices. It targets low-latency, resource-constrained applications with large data…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Jaume Anguera Peris , Joakim Jaldén

Resource-constrained IoT devices, such as sensors and actuators, have become ubiquitous in recent years. This has led to the generation of large quantities of data in real-time, which is an appealing target for AI systems. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-07 M. G. Sarwar Murshed , Christopher Murphy , Daqing Hou , Nazar Khan , Ganesh Ananthanarayanan , Faraz Hussain

Nowadays, many AI applications utilizing resource-constrained edge devices (e.g., small mobile robots, tiny IoT devices, etc.) require Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) inference on a distributed system at the edge due to limited resources…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Erqian Tang , Xiaotian Guo , Todor Stefanov

Reduced environmental effect, lower operating costs, and a stable and sustainable energy supply for current and future generations are the main reasons why power optimization is important. Power optimization makes ensuring that energy is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Parag Biswas , Abdur Rashid , Angona Biswas , Md Abdullah Al Nasim , Kishor Datta Gupta , Roy George

Initially considered as low-power units with limited autonomous processing, Edge IoT devices have seen a paradigm shift with the introduction of FPGAs and AI accelerators. This advancement has vastly amplified their computational…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Gleb Radchenko , Victoria Andrea Fill

Edge machine learning can deliver low-latency and private artificial intelligent (AI) services for mobile devices by leveraging computation and storage resources at the network edge. This paper presents an energy-efficient edge processing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Kai Yang , Yuanming Shi , Wei Yu , Zhi Ding

Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have emerged as pivotal enablers across a multitude of industries largely due to their significant resurgence over the past decade. The transformative power of AI is primarily derived from the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Yuyi Mao , Xianghao Yu , Kaibin Huang , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang , Jun Zhang

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is used to create more sustainable production methods and model climate change, making it a valuable tool in the fight against environmental degradation. This paper describes the paradox of an energy-consuming…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Arnault Pachot , Céline Patissier