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Main Authors: Chung, Jae-Won, Ma, Jeff J., Wu, Ruofan, Liu, Jiachen, Kweon, Oh Jun, Xia, Yuxuan, Wu, Zhiyu, Chowdhury, Mosharaf
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.06371
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author Chung, Jae-Won
Ma, Jeff J.
Wu, Ruofan
Liu, Jiachen
Kweon, Oh Jun
Xia, Yuxuan
Wu, Zhiyu
Chowdhury, Mosharaf
author_facet Chung, Jae-Won
Ma, Jeff J.
Wu, Ruofan
Liu, Jiachen
Kweon, Oh Jun
Xia, Yuxuan
Wu, Zhiyu
Chowdhury, Mosharaf
contents As the adoption of Generative AI in real-world services grow explosively, energy has emerged as a critical bottleneck resource. However, energy remains a metric that is often overlooked, under-explored, or poorly understood in the context of building ML systems. We present the ML$.$ENERGY Benchmark, a benchmark suite and tool for measuring inference energy consumption under realistic service environments, and the corresponding ML$.$ENERGY Leaderboard, which have served as a valuable resource for those hoping to understand and optimize the energy consumption of their generative AI services. In this paper, we explain four key design principles for benchmarking ML energy we have acquired over time, and then describe how they are implemented in the ML$.$ENERGY Benchmark. We then highlight results from the early 2025 iteration of the benchmark, including energy measurements of 40 widely used model architectures across 6 different tasks, case studies of how ML design choices impact energy consumption, and how automated optimization recommendations can lead to significant (sometimes more than 40%) energy savings without changing what is being computed by the model. The ML$.$ENERGY Benchmark is open-source and can be easily extended to various customized models and application scenarios.
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spellingShingle The ML.ENERGY Benchmark: Toward Automated Inference Energy Measurement and Optimization
Chung, Jae-Won
Ma, Jeff J.
Wu, Ruofan
Liu, Jiachen
Kweon, Oh Jun
Xia, Yuxuan
Wu, Zhiyu
Chowdhury, Mosharaf
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
As the adoption of Generative AI in real-world services grow explosively, energy has emerged as a critical bottleneck resource. However, energy remains a metric that is often overlooked, under-explored, or poorly understood in the context of building ML systems. We present the ML$.$ENERGY Benchmark, a benchmark suite and tool for measuring inference energy consumption under realistic service environments, and the corresponding ML$.$ENERGY Leaderboard, which have served as a valuable resource for those hoping to understand and optimize the energy consumption of their generative AI services. In this paper, we explain four key design principles for benchmarking ML energy we have acquired over time, and then describe how they are implemented in the ML$.$ENERGY Benchmark. We then highlight results from the early 2025 iteration of the benchmark, including energy measurements of 40 widely used model architectures across 6 different tasks, case studies of how ML design choices impact energy consumption, and how automated optimization recommendations can lead to significant (sometimes more than 40%) energy savings without changing what is being computed by the model. The ML$.$ENERGY Benchmark is open-source and can be easily extended to various customized models and application scenarios.
title The ML.ENERGY Benchmark: Toward Automated Inference Energy Measurement and Optimization
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.06371