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== Machine Learning Application Areas == |
== Machine Learning Application Areas == |
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===Deep Learning=== |
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====Models and training==== |
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Many recent projects in deep learning have used increasingly large computational resources to create models. |
Many recent projects in deep learning have used increasingly large computational resources to create models. |
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The compute resources used for the largest model training runs was shown to have doubled in size every 3.4 months from 2012-2018<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://openai.com/blog/ai-and-compute/|title=AI and Compute|date=2018-05-16|website=OpenAI|language=en|access-date=2021-03-27}}</ref>. |
The compute resources used for the largest model training runs was shown to have doubled in size every 3.4 months from 2012-2018<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://openai.com/blog/ai-and-compute/|title=AI and Compute|date=2018-05-16|website=OpenAI|language=en|access-date=2021-03-27}}</ref>. |
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===Inference=== |
====Inference==== |
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Some estimates show the vast majority of energy (80-90%) used by deep learning models is spent on inference<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/moorinsights/2019/05/09/google-cloud-doubles-down-on-nvidia-gpus-for-inference/|title=Google Cloud Doubles Down On NVIDIA GPUs For Inference|last=Strategy|first=Moor Insights and|website=Forbes|language=en|access-date=2021-03-27}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://youtu.be/ZOIkOnW640A?t=5327|title=AWS re:Invent 2018 - Keynote with Andy Jassy|last=Jassy|first=Andy|date=|website=YouTube|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2021-03-27}}</ref>. |
Some estimates show the vast majority of energy (80-90%) used by deep learning models is spent on inference<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/moorinsights/2019/05/09/google-cloud-doubles-down-on-nvidia-gpus-for-inference/|title=Google Cloud Doubles Down On NVIDIA GPUs For Inference|last=Strategy|first=Moor Insights and|website=Forbes|language=en|access-date=2021-03-27}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://youtu.be/ZOIkOnW640A?t=5327|title=AWS re:Invent 2018 - Keynote with Andy Jassy|last=Jassy|first=Andy|date=|website=YouTube|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2021-03-27}}</ref>. |
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=== Efficiency gains === |
==== Efficiency gains ==== |
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Redundant training |
Redundant training |
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Experiment tracking<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://towardsdatascience.com/deep-learning-and-carbon-emissions-79723d5bc86e|title=Deep Learning and Carbon Emissions|last=Biewald|first=Lukas|date=2019-06-24|website=Medium|language=en|access-date=2021-03-27}}</ref> |
Experiment tracking<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://towardsdatascience.com/deep-learning-and-carbon-emissions-79723d5bc86e|title=Deep Learning and Carbon Emissions|last=Biewald|first=Lukas|date=2019-06-24|website=Medium|language=en|access-date=2021-03-27}}</ref> |
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Smart hyperparameter selection |
Smart hyperparameter selection |
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== Data Centres == |
== Data Centres == |
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