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Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads drive a rapid expansion of high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructures and increase their power and energy demands towards a critical level. AI benchmarks representing state-of-the art workloads…

Performance · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Martin Mayr , Sebastian Wind , Lukas Schröder , Georg Hager , Harald Köstler , Gerhard Wellein

Recent Machine Learning (ML) approaches have shown increased performance on benchmarks but at the cost of escalating computational demands. Hardware, algorithmic and carbon optimizations have been proposed to curb energy consumption and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Clément Morand , Anne-Laure Ligozat , Aurélie Névéol

Machine Learning (ML) workloads have rapidly grown in importance, but raised concerns about their carbon footprint. Four best practices can reduce ML training energy by up to 100x and CO2 emissions up to 1000x. By following best practices,…

The rapid adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) has raised significant environmental concerns. Unlike the one-time cost of training, LLM inference occurs continuously and dominates the AI energy footprint. Yet most sustainability studies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Hemang Jain , Shailender Goyal , Divyansh Pandey , Karthik Vaidhyanathan

The widespread use of AI services has raised concerns for its environmental sustainability, towards which recent studies have identified carbon emissions of AI inference as the major contributor. This paper introduces a framework for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Vasilios A. Siris , Adamantia Stamou , George D. Stamoulis , Konstantinos Varsos , Ramin Khalili

Prominent works in the field of Natural Language Processing have long attempted to create new innovative models by improving upon previous model training approaches, altering model architecture, and developing more in-depth datasets to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Vivian Liu , Yiqiao Yin

With the ever-growing adoption of AI-based systems, the carbon footprint of AI is no longer negligible. AI researchers and practitioners are therefore urged to hold themselves accountable for the carbon emissions of the AI models they…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Roberto Verdecchia , June Sallou , Luís Cruz

The compute requirements associated with training Artificial Intelligence (AI) models have increased exponentially over time. Optimisation strategies aim to reduce the energy consumption and environmental impacts associated with AI,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Clément Morand , Anne-Laure Ligozat , Aurélie Névéol

Public AI benchmark results are widely broadcast by model developers as indicators of model quality within a growing and competitive market. However, these advertised scores do not necessarily reflect the traits of interest to those who…

Environmental sustainability, particularly in relation to climate change, is a key concern for consumers, producers, and policymakers. The carbon footprint, based on greenhouse gas emissions, is a standard metric for quantifying the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Mustafa Kaan Aslan , Reinout Heijungs , Filip Ilievski

Progress in machine learning (ML) comes with a cost to the environment, given that training ML models requires significant computational resources, energy and materials. In the present article, we aim to quantify the carbon footprint of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Alexandra Sasha Luccioni , Sylvain Viguier , Anne-Laure Ligozat

We study how organizations should select among competing AI models when user utility, deployment costs, and compliance requirements jointly matter. Widely used capability leaderboards do not translate directly into deployment decisions,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Vassilis Digalakis , Ramayya Krishnan , Gonzalo Martin Fernandez , Agni Orfanoudaki

The scaling-law era has transformed artificial intelligence from research into a global industry, but its rapid growth raises concerns over energy usage, carbon emissions, and environmental sustainability. Unlike traditional sectors, the AI…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Xinlei Wang , Ruibo Ming , Jing Qiu , Junhua Zhao , Jinjin Gu

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

Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly through the advent of large-scale generative AI (GenAI) models such as Large Language Models (LLMs), has become a transformative element in contemporary technology. While these models have unlocked…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Boming Xia , Qinghua Lu , Liming Zhu , Sung Une Lee , Yue Liu , Zhenchang Xing

Tackling climate change requires the rapid and deep decarbonization of electric power systems. While energy management systems (EMSs) play a central role in this transition, conventional EMSs focus mainly on economic efficiency and often…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-10 Young-ho Cho , Mohamad Chehade , Fatima Al-Janahi , Sol Lim , Javad Mohammadi , Hao Zhu

From an environmental standpoint, there are a few crucial aspects of training a neural network that have a major impact on the quantity of carbon that it emits. These factors include: the location of the server used for training and the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Alexandre Lacoste , Alexandra Luccioni , Victor Schmidt , Thomas Dandres

This work focuses on the high carbon emissions generated by deep learning model training, specifically addressing the core challenge of balancing algorithm performance and energy consumption. It proposes an innovative two-dimensional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Xiang Li , Chong Zhang , Hongpeng Wang , Shreyank Narayana Gowda , Yushi Li , Xiaobo Jin

Large language models (LLMs) like GPT-3 and BERT have revolutionized natural language processing (NLP), yet their environmental costs remain dangerously overlooked. This article critiques the sustainability of LLMs, quantifying their carbon…

The rise of machine learning (ML) systems has exacerbated their carbon footprint due to increased capabilities and model sizes. However, there is scarce knowledge on how the carbon footprint of ML models is actually measured, reported, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Joel Castaño , Silverio Martínez-Fernández , Xavier Franch , Justus Bogner