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The rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has created unprecedented demands for computational power, yet methods for evaluating the performance, efficiency, and environmental impact of deployed models remain fragmented. Current…

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Given rapid progress toward advanced AI and risks from frontier AI systems (advanced AI systems pushing the boundaries of the AI capabilities frontier), the creation and implementation of AI governance and regulatory schemes deserves…

Negotiation is a fundamental challenge for AI agents, as it requires an ability to reason strategically, model opponents, and balance cooperation with competition. We present the first comprehensive study that systematically evaluates how…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Sherzod Hakimov , Roland Bernard , Tim Leiber , Karl Osswald , Kristina Richert , Ruilin Yang , Raffaella Bernardi , David Schlangen

This paper presents an extensive study on the application of AI techniques for software effort estimation in the past five years from 2017 to 2023. By overcoming the limitations of traditional methods, the study aims to improve accuracy and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Nhi Tran , Tan Tran , Nam Nguyen

Over the past several years, new machine learning accelerators were being announced and released every month for a variety of applications from speech recognition, video object detection, assisted driving, and many data center applications.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Albert Reuther , Peter Michaleas , Michael Jones , Vijay Gadepally , Siddharth Samsi , Jeremy Kepner

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are sensitive to adversarial examples, resulting in fragile and unreliable performance in the real world. Although adversarial training (AT) is currently one of the most effective methodologies to robustify DNNs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Yize Li , Pu Zhao , Xue Lin , Bhavya Kailkhura , Ryan Goldhahn

We analyze the expected cost of a greedy active learning algorithm. Our analysis extends previous work to a more general setting in which different queries have different costs. Moreover, queries may have more than two possible responses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2009-05-20 Andrew Guillory , Jeff Bilmes

High-performance computing (HPC) centers consume substantial power, incurring environmental and operational costs. This review assesses how artificial intelligence (AI), including machine learning (ML) and optimization, improves the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Pierrick Pochelu , Hyacinthe Cartiaux , Julien Schleich

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is progressing rapidly, and companies are shifting their focus to developing generalist AI systems that can autonomously act and pursue goals. Increases in capabilities and autonomy may soon massively amplify…

The foundation model era -- roughly 2020 to 2025 -- is over. The forces that defined it have inverted. Open source models have reached frontier performance while inference costs approach zero, exposing what was always structurally true:…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Jared James Grogan

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 rapid integration of agentic AI into high-stakes real-world applications requires robust oversight mechanisms. The emerging field of AI Control (AIC) aims to provide such an oversight mechanism, but practical adoption depends heavily on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Mikhail Terekhov , Zhen Ning David Liu , Caglar Gulcehre , Samuel Albanie

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Deep Learning (DL) algorithms are currently applied to a wide range of products and solutions. DL training jobs are highly resource demanding and they experience great benefits when exploiting AI…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Federica Filippini , Danilo Ardagna , Marco Lattuada , Edoardo Amaldi , Michele Ciavotta , Maciek Riedl , Katarzyna Materka , Paweł Skrzypek , Fabrizio Magugliani , Marco Cicala

Adversarial training (AT) has been demonstrated to be effective in improving model robustness by leveraging adversarial examples for training. However, most AT methods are in face of expensive time and computational cost for calculating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Xiaojun Jia , Yong Zhang , Baoyuan Wu , Jue Wang , Xiaochun Cao

Performance optimization of deep learning models is conducted either manually or through automatic architecture search, or a combination of both. On the other hand, their performance strongly depends on the target hardware and how…

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The rapid diffusion of agentic AI has created a new coverage problem for commercial insurance: some AI-mediated losses are now affirmatively insured, some create silent-AI exposure under legacy cyber, technology errors-and-omissions (E&O),…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2026-05-20 Alex Leung , Rex Zhang , Ervin Ling , Kentaroh Toyoda , SiewMei Loh

Convolutional networks are one of the most widely employed architectures in computer vision and machine learning. In order to leverage their ability to learn complex functions, large amounts of data are required for training. Training a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-09 Michael Mathieu , Mikael Henaff , Yann LeCun

AI-assisted research is crossing a threshold: fully automated systems can now generate research papers for as little as $15, while long-horizon agents can execute experiments, draft manuscripts, and simulate critique with minimal human…

Due to the excessive cost of large-scale language model pre-training, considerable efforts have been made to train BERT progressively -- start from an inferior but low-cost model and gradually grow the model to increase the computational…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Xiaotao Gu , Liyuan Liu , Hongkun Yu , Jing Li , Chen Chen , Jiawei Han

Frontier AI developers operate at the intersection of rapid technical progress, extreme risk exposure, and growing regulatory scrutiny. While a range of external evaluations and safety frameworks have emerged, comparatively little attention…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Francesca Gomez , Adam Buick , Leah Ferentinos , Haelee Kim , Elley Lee