Evaluation of ML Resource Utilization Requires Model Life Cycle Assessment
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Title:Evaluation of ML Resource Utilization Requires Model Life Cycle Assessment
Abstract:Proper accounting of the energy requirements and environmental impact of artificial intelligence (AI) systems is necessary for researchers, developers, policy makers, and users to assess the barriers to building systems at scale. With the growing complexity of pipelines and underlying infrastructure needed to develop and deploy AI systems, previous approaches for evaluating AI efficiency which focus on the costs of a single training run or an individual inference prediction are no longer sufficient. In this position paper, we enunciate the need for applying life cycle assessment to evaluate the costs of the machine learning model development and deployment pipeline to properly account for the required resources and downstream impact. Life cycle assessments enable the incorporation of costs across the full life cycle of an AI system and its underlying infrastructure, from the embodied costs associated with the physical computing hardware through the operational costs in training and inference.
| Comments: | ICML 2026: Position Paper Track |
| Subjects: | Machine Learning (cs.LG) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2606.07632 [cs.LG] |
| (or arXiv:2606.07632v1 [cs.LG] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.07632
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