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Deep Learning has revolutionized the fields of computer vision, natural language understanding, speech recognition, information retrieval and more. However, with the progressive improvements in deep learning models, their number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Gaurav Menghani

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

Addressing the so-called ``Red-AI'' trend of rising energy consumption by large-scale neural networks, this study investigates the actual energy consumption, as measured by node-level watt-meters, of training various fully connected neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Charles Edison Tripp , Jordan Perr-Sauer , Jamil Gafur , Amabarish Nag , Avi Purkayastha , Sagi Zisman , Erik A. Bensen

With the ever-growing adoption of AI, its impact on the environment is no longer negligible. Despite the potential that continual learning could have towards Green AI, its environmental sustainability remains relatively uncharted. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Tomaso Trinci , Simone Magistri , Roberto Verdecchia , Andrew D. Bagdanov

Deep learning has become widely used in complex AI applications. Yet, training a deep neural network (DNNs) model requires a considerable amount of calculations, long running time, and much energy. Nowadays, many-core AI accelerators (e.g.,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Yuxin Wang , Qiang Wang , Shaohuai Shi , Xin He , Zhenheng Tang , Kaiyong Zhao , Xiaowen Chu

The energy requirements of current natural language processing models continue to grow at a rapid, unsustainable pace. Recent works highlighting this problem conclude there is an urgent need for methods that reduce the energy needs of NLP…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Joseph McDonald , Baolin Li , Nathan Frey , Devesh Tiwari , Vijay Gadepally , Siddharth Samsi

Deep learning models are trained and deployed in multiple domains. Increasing usage of deep learning models alarms the usage of memory consumed while computation by deep learning models. Existing approaches for reducing memory consumption…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Mahendran N

The ubiquity of machine learning (ML) and the demand for ever-larger models bring an increase in energy consumption and environmental impact. However, little is known about the energy scaling laws in ML, and existing research focuses on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Emile Dos Santos Ferreira , Andrei Paleyes , Neil D. Lawrence

The batch size is an essential parameter to tune during the development of new neural networks. Amongst other quality indicators, it has a large degree of influence on the model's accuracy, generalisability, training times and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Tim Yarally , Luís Cruz , Daniel Feitosa , June Sallou , Arie van Deursen

Deep learning systems have become increasingly energy- and computation-intensive, raising concerns about their environmental impact. As organizers of the Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE) challenge, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Constance Douwes , Romain Serizel

Since the emergence of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) as a prominent technique in the field of computer vision, the ImageNet classification challenge has played a major role in advancing the state-of-the-art. While accuracy figures have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Alfredo Canziani , Adam Paszke , Eugenio Culurciello

Over the past decade, deep learning (DL) has led to significant advancements in various fields of artificial intelligence, including machine translation (MT). These advancements would not be possible without the ever-growing volumes of data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Dimitar Shterionov , Eva Vanmassenhove

Recent advances in deep learning, whether on discriminative or generative tasks have been beneficial for various applications, among which security and defense. However, their increasing computational demands during training and deployment…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Karim Haroun , Aya Zitouni , Aicha Zenakhri , Meriem Amel Guessoum , Larbi Boubchir

The use of deep learning (DL) on Internet of Things (IoT) and mobile devices offers numerous advantages over cloud-based processing. However, such devices face substantial energy constraints to prolong battery-life, or may even operate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Josh Millar , Hamed Haddadi , Anil Madhavapeddy

The accelerated development of machine learning methods, primarily deep learning, are causal to the recent breakthroughs in medical image analysis and computer aided intervention. The resource consumption of deep learning models in terms of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Raghavendra Selvan , Julian Schön , Erik B Dam

Management and efficient operations in critical infrastructure such as Smart Grids take huge advantage of accurate power load forecasting which, due to its nonlinear nature, remains a challenging task. Recently, deep learning has emerged in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Alberto Gasparin , Slobodan Lukovic , Cesare Alippi

Recently, there has been a trend of shifting the execution of deep learning inference tasks toward the edge of the network, closer to the user, to reduce latency and preserve data privacy. At the same time, growing interest is being devoted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Seyyidahmed Lahmer , Aria Khoshsirat , Michele Rossi , Andrea Zanella

In recent years, deep learning systems have shown a concerning trend toward increased complexity and higher energy consumption. As researchers in this domain and organizers of one of the Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-18 Francesca Ronchini , Romain Serizel

This is the 1st part of the dissertation for my master degree and compares the power consumption using the default floating point (32bit) and Nvidia mixed precision (16bit and 32bit) while training a classification ML model. A custom PC…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Andrew Antonopoulos

Machine learning (ML) has seen tremendous advancements, but its environmental footprint remains a concern. Acknowledging the growing environmental impact of ML this paper investigates Green ML, examining various model architectures and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Ioannis Mavromatis , Kostas Katsaros , Aftab Khan