Environmental Sustainability of Machine Learning Systems: Reducing the Carbon Impact of Their Lifecycle Process
摘要
Software-related carbon dioxide emissions from the information and communications technology sector currently account for up to 3.9% of global emissions. With the increasing use of Machine Learning (ML) systems, this percentage of global emissions is estimated to grow. In this keynote, we embark on an interdisciplinary journey to explore the environmental sustainability of ML systems. Following a software engineering perspective, we see how to track and report green ML metrics in order to enable both their measurement and transparency. We then continue to optimize the carbon emissions and cost of ML systems during different stages of their lifecycle process by using green software tactics.