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While the environmental impact of digitalization is becoming more and more evident, the climate crisis has become a major issue for society. For instance, data centers alone account for 2.7% of Europe's energy consumption today. A…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Henrik Claßen , Jonas Thierfeldt , Julian Tochman-Szewc , Philipp Wiesner , Odej Kao

Machine learning and deep learning models have become essential in the recent fast development of artificial intelligence in many sectors of the society. It is now widely acknowledge that the development of these models has an environmental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Lucia Bouza Heguerte , Aurélie Bugeau , Loïc Lannelongue

Climate simulations, at all grid resolutions, rely on approximations that encapsulate the forcing due to unresolved processes on resolved variables, known as parameterizations. Parameterizations often lead to inaccuracies in climate models,…

The rapid adoption of large language models (LLMs) has led to significant energy consumption and carbon emissions, posing a critical challenge to the sustainability of generative AI technologies. This paper explores the integration of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Tahniat Khan , Soroor Motie , Sedef Akinli Kocak , Shaina Raza

Embodied carbon footprint modeling has become an area of growing interest due to its significant contribution to carbon emissions in computing. However, the deterministic nature of the existing models fail to account for the spatial and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Xuesi Chen , Leo Han , Anvita Bhagavathula , Udit Gupta

Accounting for over 20% of the total carbon emissions, the precise estimation of on-road transportation carbon emissions is crucial for carbon emission monitoring and efficient mitigation policy formulation. However, existing estimation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Jinwei Zeng , Yu Liu , Jingtao Ding , Jian Yuan , Yong Li

The amount of CO$_2$ emitted per kilowatt-hour on an electricity grid varies by time of day and substantially varies by location due to the types of generation. Networked collections of warehouse scale computers, sometimes called Hyperscale…

Training large-scale machine learning models incurs substantial carbon emissions. Federated Learning (FL), by distributing computation across geographically dispersed clients, offers a natural framework to leverage regional and temporal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Daniel Richards Arputharaj , Charlotte Rodriguez , Angelo Rodio , Giovanni Neglia

State-of-the-art Transformer-based models, with gigantic parameters, are difficult to be accommodated on resource constrained embedded devices. Moreover, with the development of technology, more and more embedded devices are available to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Panjie Qi , Edwin Hsing-Mean Sha , Qingfeng Zhuge , Hongwu Peng , Shaoyi Huang , Zhenglun Kong , Yuhong Song , Bingbing Li

Optimization based tracking methods have been widely successful by integrating a target model prediction module, providing effective global reasoning by minimizing an objective function. While this inductive bias integrates valuable domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Christoph Mayer , Martin Danelljan , Goutam Bhat , Matthieu Paul , Danda Pani Paudel , Fisher Yu , Luc Van Gool

AI has been proposed as an important tool to support several efforts related to nature-based climate solutions such as the detection of wildfires that affect forests and vegetation-based offsets. While this and other use-cases provide…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Olamide Oladeji , Seyed Shahabeddin Mousavi

We present MOFA, an open-source generative AI (GenAI) plus simulation workflow for high-throughput generation of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) on large-scale high-performance computing (HPC) systems. MOFA addresses key challenges in…

Artificial Intelligence (AI) models for time-series in pervasive computing keep getting larger and more complicated. The Transformer model is by far the most compelling of these AI models. However, it is difficult to obtain the desired…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Tianheng Ling , Gregor Schiele

As large-scale data processing workloads continue to grow, their carbon footprint raises concerns. Prior research on carbon-aware schedulers has focused on shifting computation to align with availability of low-carbon energy, but these…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Adam Lechowicz , Rohan Shenoy , Noman Bashir , Mohammad Hajiesmaili , Adam Wierman , Christina Delimitrou

The rapid growth of Machine Learning (ML) has increased demand for DNN hardware accelerators, but their embodied carbon footprint poses significant environmental challenges. This paper leverages approximate computing to design sustainable…

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have enabled effective perception and language models for robots, but their deployment remains computationally expensive, increasing latency and energy use. This work presents the Open…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Andrés Meseguer Valenzuela , Luís Miguel Bartolín Arnau

Cloud platforms commonly exploit workload temporal flexibility to reduce their carbon emissions. They suspend/resume workload execution for when and where the energy is greenest. However, increasingly prevalent delay-intolerant real-time…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Tharindu B. Hewage , Shashikant Ilager , Maria A. Rodriguez , Rajkumar Buyya

The ability to discover new materials with desirable properties is critical for numerous applications from helping mitigate climate change to advances in next generation computing hardware. AI has the potential to accelerate materials…

To maintain high perception performance among connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs), in this paper, we propose an accuracy-aware and resource-efficient raw-level cooperative sensing and computing scheme among CAVs and road-side…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Xuehan Ye , Kaige Qu , Weihua Zhuang , Xuemin Shen

Road vehicles contribute to significant levels of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. A potential strategy for improving their aerodynamic efficiency and reducing emissions is through active adaptation of their exterior shapes to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Peng Zhang , Branson Blaylock