arXiv Machine Learning

Energy Use of AI Inference, Efficiency Pathways, and Test-Time Scaling

arXiv:2509. 20241v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As AI inference scales to billions of queries, estimates of per-query energy use are increasingly important for capacity planning, efficiency interventions, and policy.

arXiv AI
Aug 10

Intelligence per Watt: Measuring Intelligence Efficiency of Local AI

arXiv:2511. 07885v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) queries are predominantly processed by frontier models in centralized cloud infrastructure.

By Jon Saad-Falcon, Avanika Narayan, Hakki Orhun Akengin, J. Wes Griffin, Herumb Shandilya, Adrian Gamarra Lafuente, Medhya Goel, Rebecca Joseph, Shlok Natarajan, Etash Kumar Guha, Shang Zhu, Ben Athiwaratkun, John Hennessy, Azalia Mirhoseini, Christopher R\'e
arXiv AI
Aug 11

ScaleSense: Cost-Intelligent Scaling Framework via Learned Resource Estimation in Alibaba AnalyticDB

arXiv:2608. 07945v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cloud-native serverless data warehouses achieve fine-grained elasticity by decoupling storage from compute, yet determining the optimal resource allocation for highly heterogeneous ad-hoc queries remains a formidable industrial challenge.

By Yifan Wu, Yuhan Li, Zhenhua Wang, Ke Chen, Lidan Shou, Zonghao Chen, Liang Lin, Huan Li, Gang Chen
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 30

From Tokens to Watt-hours: Analytical Energy Estimation for LLM Inference on Modern GPUs

arXiv:2607. 26571v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The operational energy consumption of large language model (LLM) inference is becoming an increasingly important component of the environmental footprint of deployed AI systems.

By Tina Vartziotis, Rodopi Kosteli, Elli Vartziotis, George Dasoulas, Michael Keckeisen, Konstantinos Skianis, Sotirios Kotsopoulos, Francesca Dominici
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 24

EnerInfer: Energy-Aware On-Device LLM Inference

arXiv:2606. 23001v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-device LLM inference is increasingly attractive for privacy-preserving, reliable, and cost-effective deployment, yet its energy and thermal costs remain a critical bottleneck.

By Bohua Zou, Nian Liu, Binqi Sun, Matteo Mascherin, Debayan Roy, Yutao Liu, Yu Peng, Ning Jia, Haibo Chen
arXiv AI
5d ago

InFactPlanner: Planning Sustainable Geo-Distributed LLM Data Centers

arXiv:2608. 12915v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid growth of LLM inference is shifting sustainability concerns from one-time training to continuous serving, where infrastructure decisions shape energy use, carbon emissions, water consumption, and service quality.

By Nicoletta Tsiopani, Moysis Symeonides, George Pallis, Marios D. Dikaiakos
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 29

From Tokens to Watt-hours: Analytical Energy Estimation for LLM Inference on Modern GPUs

The operational energy consumption of large language model (LLM) inference is becoming an increasingly important component of the environmental footprint of deployed AI systems. However, direct measurement of inference energy often requires hardware telemetry, power instrumentation, or infrastructure-specific monitoring, limiting its applicability in comparative studies, early-stage system design, and sustainability reporting.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 30

Harvesting AI Computation at the Edge via Generic Approximation

arXiv:2606. 29518v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: With the widespread adoption of AI in various IoT scenarios such as smart sensing and processing, AI chips have become a common component at the edge.

By Yihan Wang, Huiru Yan, Luxin Zhang, Long Cheng, Weiwei Chen, Ying Wang, Lei Zhang, Cheng Liu, Huawei Li