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Large Language Models (LLMs) enable real-time function calling in edge AI systems but introduce significant computational overhead, leading to high power consumption and carbon emissions. Existing methods optimize for performance while…

Sustainability and efficiency have become essential considerations in the development and deployment of Artificial Intelligence systems, but existing regulatory practices for Green AI still lack standardized, model-agnostic evaluation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Jorge Paz-Ruza , João Gama , Amparo Alonso-Betanzos , Bertha Guijarro-Berdiñas

Comparing model performances on benchmark datasets is an integral part of measuring and driving progress in artificial intelligence. A model's performance on a benchmark dataset is commonly assessed based on a single or a small set of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Kathrin Blagec , Georg Dorffner , Milad Moradi , Matthias Samwald

The rising energy footprint of artificial intelligence has become a measurable component of US data center emissions, yet cybersecurity research seldom considers its environmental cost. This study introduces an eco aware anomaly detection…

Quality control is an essential operation in manufacturing, ensuring products meet the necessary standards of quality, safety, and reliability. Traditional methods, such as visual inspections, measurements, and statistical techniques, help…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-13 Sukumaran Rajasekaran , Ebru Turanoglu Bekar , Kanika Gandhi , Sabino Francesco Roselli , Mohan Rajashekarappa

As the possibilities for Artificial Intelligence (AI) have grown, so have concerns regarding its impacts on society and the environment. However, these issues are often raised separately; i.e. carbon footprint analyses of AI models…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Alexandra Sasha Luccioni , Giada Pistilli , Raesetje Sefala , Nyalleng Moorosi

As the modern electrical grid shifts towards distributed systems, there is an increasing need for rapid decision-making tools. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) technologies are now pivotal in enhancing the efficiency…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-27 Meiyi Li , Javad Mohammadi

The rapid advancement of machine learning (ML) technologies has driven the development of specialized hardware accelerators designed to facilitate more efficient model training. This paper introduces the CARAML benchmark suite, which is…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Chelsea Maria John , Stepan Nassyr , Carolin Penke , Andreas Herten

Background: The increasing environmental impact of Information Technologies, particularly in Machine Learning (ML), highlights the need for sustainable practices in software engineering. The escalating complexity and energy consumption of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Pau Duran , Joel Castaño , Cristina Gómez , Silverio Martínez-Fernández

By providing unprecedented access to computational resources, cloud computing has enabled rapid growth in technologies such as machine learning, the computational demands of which incur a high energy cost and a commensurate carbon…

Corporate Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emission targets are important metrics in sustainable investing [12, 16]. To provide a comprehensive view of company emission objectives, we propose an approach to source these metrics from company public…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2024-11-07 Aditya Dave , Mengchen Zhu , Dapeng Hu , Sachin Tiwari

The size and complexity of deep neural networks continue to grow exponentially, significantly increasing energy consumption for training and inference by these models. We introduce an open-source package eco2AI to help data scientists and…

Existing AI evaluation practices often fail to capture how systems actually perform in low-resource environments, where operational constraints shape usability as much as model quality. Through a structured analysis of existing benchmark…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Aakash Pant , Kavya Shah , Apoorv Agnihotri , Sneha Nikam , Prasaanth Balraj , Nakul Jain

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes integral to economy and society, communication gaps between developers, users, and stakeholders hinder trust and informed decision-making. High-level AI labels, inspired by frameworks like EU energy…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Raphael Fischer , Magdalena Wischnewski , Alexander van der Staay , Katharina Poitz , Christian Janiesch , Thomas Liebig

This paper examines the integration of AI's carbon footprint into the risk management frameworks (RMFs) of the banking sector, emphasising its importance in aligning with sustainability goals and regulatory requirements. As AI becomes…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Nataliya Tkachenko

As edge AI deployments scale to billions of devices running always-on, real-time compound AI pipelines, they represent a massive and largely unmanaged source of energy consumption and carbon emissions. To reduce carbon emissions while…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Kang Yang , Walid A. Hanafy , Prashant Shenoy , Mani Srivastava

Classical and centralized Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods require moving data from producers (sensors, machines) to energy hungry data centers, raising environmental concerns due to computational and communication resource demands,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Stefano Savazzi , Vittorio Rampa , Sanaz Kianoush , Mehdi Bennis

Machine learning inference occurs at a massive scale, yet its environmental impact remains poorly quantified, especially on low-resource hardware. We present ML-EcoLyzer, a cross-framework tool for measuring the carbon, energy, thermal, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Jose Marie Antonio Minoza , Rex Gregor Laylo , Christian F Villarin , Sebastian C. Ibanez

The carbon footprint of algorithms must be measured and transparently reported so computer scientists can take an honest and active role in environmental sustainability. In this paper, we take analyses usually applied at the industrial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Kadan Lottick , Silvia Susai , Sorelle A. Friedler , Jonathan P. Wilson

Fueled by the soaring popularity of large language and foundation models, the accelerated growth of artificial intelligence (AI) models' enormous environmental footprint has come under increased scrutiny. While many approaches have been…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Pengfei Li , Jianyi Yang , Adam Wierman , Shaolei Ren