Table 1.

Reviewed literature regarding energy and resource usage and related influencing factors

AuthorYearPhases of machine learning services 
Pre-training PhaseTraining phaseUsage phaseShort description
Desislavov et al.2023 XResearch about energy consumption and computations trends of deep learning models in the domain of computer vision and NLP
Fischer et al.2023XXDevelopment of a framework for assessing energy efficiency in ML experiments / tasks
García-Martín et al.2018XPaper describes how to measure energy consumption in different machine learning scenarios
García-Martín et al.2019XXA review of different possibilities to measure energy consumption in machine learning
Han et al.2015XXResearch describes how energy can be saved due to approaches like pruning, quantization and Huffman coding
Henderson et al.2020XXA framework for energy and carbon footprints of machine learning was developed
Islam et al.2023XResearch on the energy consumption of different machine learning algorithms
Kaack et al.2022XXDevelopment of a framework for understanding the effects of machine learning on GHG emissions
Lacoste et al.2019X*XX*A machine learning emission calculator is developed with focus on training and hardware
Lannelongue et al.2021X*XX*A calculator for carbon emission is developed based on e.g. hardware, location and algorithm running aspects
Mavromatis2024XXExamination of model architectures etc. in training and inference
Patterson et al.2021X*XX*Research about the energy usage and carbon emission of large language models
Strubell et al.2019XResearch about the energy and environmental costs of NLP training
Wang et al.2023XXEnergy aspects of language model finetuning, pre-training and inference, with the example of Google BERT
Yang et al.2017XResearch paper on energy-aware pruning to reduce energy consumption in convolutional neural networks
Zanger et al.2024XDevelopment of a recommender system to compare different machine learning classifiers during training
Note(s):

*Research does not explicitly focus on the energy consumption in this phase. However, they investigate the energy consumption of the hardware which is used in all phases

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