Why does AI consume so much energy ?

A note by P. Caillon and A. Allauzen from the SHARP project published on The Conversation. Pourquoi l’IA générative consomme-t-elle tant d’énergie ? Paul Caillon, Université Paris Dauphine – PSL et Alexandre Allauzen, Université Paris Dauphine – PSL DeepSeek défraye la chronique en proposant un modèle dont les performances seraient comparables à…

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SHARP internal workshop – January 2025

A 2-day internal brainstorming workshop of the SHARP project was held at ENS de Lyon on January 24-25 2025. Each day started with an invited seminar open to all registered participants Anne-Laure Ligozat “How to evaluate the carbon footprint in AI projects” Guillaume Charpiat “Neural Network Growth for Frugal AI”…

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Project meeting – ISIR – July 4th 2024

A project meeting was held at ISIR (Paris) on July 4th 2024. The day was organized around several spotlight presentations as well as a tutorial. Morning spotlights “Learning to Simplify Large Computer Vision Problems” [Loic Landrieu] “Segmenting Historical Maps with Modern Labels” [Loic Landrieu] “Understanding diffusion models” [David Picard] “Efficient…

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Second project meeting

SHARP’s second project meeting took place at ISIR on March 13th 2024. The scientific program involved spotlight presentations on: Asynchronous decentralized optimization of machine learning models (Stéphane Rivaud) Alternatives to backpropagation for learning neural networks (Paul Caillon) Physics-informed Deep Learning (Patrick Gallinari) Sparsity and quantization in deep networks: challenges and…

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