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Towards the Systematic Reporting of the Energy and Carbon Footprints of Machine Learning
Accurate reporting of energy and carbon usage is essential for understanding
the potential climate impacts of machine learning research. We introduce a
framework that makes this easier by providing a simple interface for tracking
realtime energy consumption and carbon emissions, as well as generating
standardized online appendices. Utilizing this framework, we create a
leaderboard for energy efficient reinforcement learning algorithms to
incentivize responsible research in this area as an example for other areas of
machine learning. Finally, based on case studies using our framework, we
propose strategies for mitigation of carbon emissions and reduction of energy
consumption. By making accounting easier, we hope to further the sustainable
development of machine learning experiments and spur more research into energy
efficient algorithms
Great Power, Great Responsibility: Recommendations for Reducing Energy for Training Language Models
The energy requirements of current natural language processing models
continue to grow at a rapid, unsustainable pace. Recent works highlighting this
problem conclude there is an urgent need for methods that reduce the energy
needs of NLP and machine learning more broadly. In this article, we investigate
techniques that can be used to reduce the energy consumption of common NLP
applications. In particular, we focus on techniques to measure energy usage and
different hardware and datacenter-oriented settings that can be tuned to reduce
energy consumption for training and inference for language models. We
characterize the impact of these settings on metrics such as computational
performance and energy consumption through experiments conducted on a high
performance computing system as well as popular cloud computing platforms.
These techniques can lead to significant reduction in energy consumption when
training language models or their use for inference. For example,
power-capping, which limits the maximum power a GPU can consume, can enable a
15\% decrease in energy usage with marginal increase in overall computation
time when training a transformer-based language model
How to estimate carbon footprint when training deep learning models? A guide and review
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 cost that has been analyzed in many studies. Several online and
software tools have been developed to track energy consumption while training
machine learning models. In this paper, we propose a comprehensive introduction
and comparison of these tools for AI practitioners wishing to start estimating
the environmental impact of their work. We review the specific vocabulary, the
technical requirements for each tool. We compare the energy consumption
estimated by each tool on two deep neural networks for image processing and on
different types of servers. From these experiments, we provide some advice for
better choosing the right tool and infrastructure.Comment: Environmental Research Communications, 202
The Nexus between Carbon Emissions and Per Capita Income of Households: Evidence from Japanese Prefectures
Household consumption is influenced by various factors. Despite this, the intricate nature of consumption behaviors and the lack of comprehensive data from the supply chain have led to an incomplete recognition of the attributes contributing to home emissions at the city level. Through the analysis of city-level household consumption in relation to energy demand, utilizing a city-scale input-output model and urban residential consumption inventories, this study considers the environmental responsibility inherent in residential consumption for Japanese Prefectures, this study reveals that variations in this responsibility based on household type and season. Various factors are taken into account when examining emissions by age and month, including emission type, source, fuel variety, and consumption items for the period 2013-2022. These assertions stem from emissions data computed using the system boundary method. The connection between residential emissions and GDP is also explored through regression analysis. We uncovered evidence indicating that carbon emissions in Japan fluctuate with the seasons and across diverse categories. These statistics illustrate a notable discrepancy in the regional distribution of carbon emissions, owing to evident variations in consumption rates and patterns.</p
DBJoules: An Energy Measurement Tool for Database Management Systems
In the rapidly evolving landscape of modern data-driven technologies,
software relies on large datasets and constant data center operations using
various database systems to support computation-intensive tasks. As energy
consumption in software systems becomes a growing concern, selecting the right
database from energy-efficiency perspective is also critical. To address this,
we introduce \textbf{\textit{DBJoules}}, a tool that measures the energy
consumption of activities in database systems. \textit{DBJoules} supports
energy measurement of CRUD operations for four popular databases. Through
evaluations on two widely-used datasets, we identify disparities of 7\% to 38\%
in the energy consumption of these databases. Hence, the goal is to raise
developer awareness about the effect of running queries in different databases
from an energy consumption perspective, enabling them to select appropriate
database for sustainable usage. The tool's demonstration is available at
\url{https://youtu.be/D1MTZum0jok} and related artifacts at
\url{https://rishalab.github.io/DBJoules/}
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