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Green AI Research

  • Last Updated 12 December, 2024
  • by David Spuler, Ph.D.

The widespread use of AI makes it a significant contributor to energy consumption. Hence, AI improvements will reduce its carbon footprint and environmental impacts. All of those code optimizations are also making AI greener.

Survey Papers on Green AI

Survey papers include:

  • Jingjing Xu, Wangchunshu Zhou, Zhiyi Fu, Hao Zhou, Lei Li, A Survey on Green Deep Learning, Nov 2021, https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.05193 (Extensive survey paper.)
  • Roberto Verdecchia, June Sallou, Luís Cruz, May 2023, A Systematic Review of Green AI, https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.11047 (Useful and broad literature review with systematic examination.)
  • T Tornede, A Tornede, J Hanselle, F Mohr, 2023, Towards green automated machine learning: Status quo and future directions, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), Vol. 77 (2023), https://www.jair.org/index.php/jair/article/view/14340, PDF: https://www.jair.org/index.php/jair/article/download/14340/26937
  • Shayne Longpre, Stella Biderman, Alon Albalak, Hailey Schoelkopf, Daniel McDuff, Sayash Kapoor, Kevin Klyman, Kyle Lo, Gabriel Ilharco, Nay San, Maribeth Rauh, Aviya Skowron, Bertie Vidgen, Laura Weidinger, Arvind Narayanan, Victor Sanh, David Adelani, Percy Liang, Rishi Bommasani, Peter Henderson, Sasha Luccioni, Yacine Jernite, Luca Soldaini, 26 Jun 2024 (v2), The Responsible Foundation Model Development Cheatsheet: A Review of Tools & Resources, https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.16746
  • Aditi Singh, Nirmal Prakashbhai Patel, Abul Ehtesham, Saket Kumar, Tala Talaei Khoei, 6 Dec 2024, A Survey of Sustainability in Large Language Models: Applications, Economics, and Challenges, https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.04782

Research Papers on Green AI

Environmental issues for AI are an active area of research:

Energy Efficient Research

Energy efficiency is an important part of green AI, perhaps the most important (there's also water). A lot of AI optimization research is also relevant to reducing energy usage. Here are some paper specifically on energy:

Water Usage of AI

Research papers on water consumption of AI include:

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