The Carbon Footprint of Machine Learning Training Will Plateau, Then Shrink

no code implementations • 11 Apr 2022 • David Patterson, Joseph Gonzalez, Urs Hölzle, Quoc Le, Chen Liang, Lluis-Miquel Munguia, Daniel Rothchild, David So, Maud Texier, Jeff Dean

Four best practices can reduce ML training energy by up to 100x and CO2 emissions up to 1000x.

BIG-bench Machine Learning Total Energy

Carbon Emissions and Large Neural Network Training

no code implementations • 21 Apr 2021 • David Patterson, Joseph Gonzalez, Quoc Le, Chen Liang, Lluis-Miquel Munguia, Daniel Rothchild, David So, Maud Texier, Jeff Dean

To help reduce the carbon footprint of ML, we believe energy usage and CO2e should be a key metric in evaluating models, and we are collaborating with MLPerf developers to include energy usage during training and inference in this industry standard benchmark.

Neural Architecture Search Scheduling