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The increasing use of machine learning (ML) models in signal processing has raised concerns about their environmental impact, particularly during resource-intensive training phases. In this study, we present a novel methodology for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Constance Douwes , Romain Serizel

In particular, large-scale deep learning and artificial intelligence model training uses a lot of computational power and energy, so it poses serious sustainability issues. The fast rise in model complexity has resulted in exponential…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Yashasvi Makin , Rahul Maliakkal

The global energy landscape is undergoing a profound transformation, often referred to as the energy transition, driven by the urgent need to mitigate climate change, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and ensure sustainable energy supplies.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Stavros Sykiotis

Over the past decade, deep learning models have exhibited considerable advancements, reaching or even exceeding human-level performance in a range of visual perception tasks. This remarkable progress has sparked interest in applying deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Yulin Wang , Yizeng Han , Chaofei Wang , Shiji Song , Qi Tian , Gao Huang

The computation demand for machine learning (ML) has grown rapidly recently, which comes with a number of costs. Estimating the energy cost helps measure its environmental impact and finding greener strategies, yet it is challenging without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-26 David Patterson , Joseph Gonzalez , Quoc Le , Chen Liang , Lluis-Miquel Munguia , Daniel Rothchild , David So , Maud Texier , Jeff Dean

Deep neural networks are gaining in popularity as they are used to generate state-of-the-art results for a variety of computer vision and machine learning applications. At the same time, these networks have grown in depth and complexity in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-12-14 Soheil Hashemi , Nicholas Anthony , Hokchhay Tann , R. Iris Bahar , Sherief Reda

With many real-world applications of Natural Language Processing (NLP) comprising of long texts, there has been a rise in NLP benchmarks that measure the accuracy of models that can handle longer input sequences. However, these benchmarks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Phyllis Ang , Bhuwan Dhingra , Lisa Wu Wills

It is crucial today that economies harness renewable energies and integrate them into the existing grid. Conventionally, energy has been generated based on forecasts of peak and low demands. Renewable energy can neither be produced on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-02 Alexey Györi , Mathis Niederau , Violett Zeller , Volker Stich

Over the past years, great progress has been made in improving the computing power of general-purpose graphics processing units (GPGPUs), which facilitates the prosperity of deep neural networks (DNNs) in multiple fields like computer…

Performance · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Zhenheng Tang , Yuxin Wang , Qiang Wang , Xiaowen Chu

Concerns about the environmental footprint of machine learning are increasing. While studies of energy use and emissions of ML models are a growing subfield, most ML researchers and developers still do not incorporate energy measurement as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-25 Akshaya Jagannadharao , Nicole Beckage , Sovan Biswas , Hilary Egan , Jamil Gafur , Thijs Metsch , Dawn Nafus , Giuseppe Raffa , Charles Tripp

Accurate power consumption prediction is crucial for improving efficiency and reducing environmental impact, yet traditional methods relying on specialized instruments or rigid physical models are impractical for large-scale, real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Roksana Yahyaabadi , Ghazal Farhani , Taufiq Rahman , Soodeh Nikan , Abdullah Jirjees , Fadi Araji

As large language models (LLMs) scale in size and adoption, their computational and environmental costs continue to rise. Prior benchmarking efforts have primarily focused on latency reduction in idealized settings, often overlooking the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Jared Fernandez , Clara Na , Vashisth Tiwari , Yonatan Bisk , Sasha Luccioni , Emma Strubell

The reliability of machine learning (ML) software systems is heavily influenced by changes in data over time. For that reason, ML systems require regular maintenance, typically based on model retraining. However, retraining requires…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Lorena Poenaru-Olaru , June Sallou , Luis Cruz , Jan Rellermeyer , Arie van Deursen

This paper presents a machine learning approach to model the electric consumption of electric vehicles at macroscopic level, i.e., in the absence of a speed profile, while preserving microscopic level accuracy. For this work, we leveraged a…

Energy-efficiency is a key concern for neural network applications. To alleviate this issue, hardware acceleration using FPGAs or GPUs can provide better energy-efficiency than general-purpose processors. However, further improvement of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Seyed Morteza Nabavinejad , Behzad Salami

In-memory deep learning computes neural network models where they are stored, thus avoiding long distance communication between memory and computation units, resulting in considerable savings in energy and time. In-memory deep learning has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Zhehui Wang , Tao Luo , Rick Siow Mong Goh , Wei Zhang , Weng-Fai Wong

This work offers a heuristic evaluation of the effects of variations in machine learning training regimes and learning paradigms on the energy consumption of computing, especially HPC hardware with a life-cycle aware perspective. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Daniel Geißler , Bo Zhou , Mengxi Liu , Sungho Suh , Paul Lukowicz

The power that machine learning models consume when making predictions can be affected by a model's architecture. This paper presents various estimates of power consumption for a range of different activation functions, a core factor in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Leon Derczynski

Due to their highly parallel multi-cores architecture, GPUs are being increasingly used in a wide range of computationally intensive applications. Compared to CPUs, GPUs can achieve higher performances at accelerating the programs'…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Frédéric Magoulès , Abal-Kassim Cheik Ahamed , Alban Desmaison , Jean-Christophe Léchenet , François Mayer , Haifa Ben Salem , Thomas Zhu

With the emerging technologies and all associated devices, it is predicted that massive amount of data will be created in the next few years, in fact, as much as 90% of current data were created in the last couple of years,a trend that will…

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