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This paper tackles energy-efficient machine learning on low-power devices.
Advances in renewable energy generation and introduction of the government targets to improve energy efficiency gave rise to a concept of a Zero Energy Building (ZEB). A ZEB is a building whose net energy usage over a year is zero, i.e., its energy use is not larger than its overall renewables generation. A collection …
Graph energy helps detect communities in networks better than traditional methods.
Distributed, controllable energy storage devices offer several benefits to electric power system operation. Three such benefits include reducing peak load, providing standby power, and enhancing power quality. These benefits, however, are only realized during peak load or during an outage, events that are infrequent. T…
In this paper, the problem of energy efficient transmission and computation resource allocation for federated learning (FL) over wireless communication networks is investigated. In the considered model, each user exploits limited local computational resources to train a local FL model with its collected data and, then,…
This work improves communication efficiency in federated learning over wireless networks by optimizing energy consumption.
A new energy-efficient pruning method for federated learning.
We study the misclassification error for community detection in general heterogeneous stochastic block models (SBM) with noisy or partial label information. We establish a connection between the misclassification rate and the notion of minimum energy on the local neighborhood of the SBM. We develop an optimally weighte…
This paper reviews low voltage load forecasting methods and applications.
This paper analyzes energy and carbon footprints in distributed and federated learning.
The rise of digital and mobile communications has recently made the world more connected and networked, resulting in an unprecedented volume of data flowing between sources, data centers, or processes. While these data may be processed in a centralized manner, it is often more suitable to consider distributed strategie…
The area of building energy management has received a significant amount of interest in recent years. This area is concerned with combining advancements in sensor technologies, communications and advanced control algorithms to optimize energy utilization. Reinforcement learning is one of the most prominent machine lear…
This paper investigates the autonomous control of massive unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for mission-critical applications (e.g., dispatching many UAVs from a source to a destination for firefighting). Achieving their fast travel and low motion energy without inter-UAV collision under wind perturbation is a daunting c…
Efficient decentralized learning framework reduces communication costs.
As convolutional neural networks (CNNs) enable state-of-the-art computer vision applications, their high energy consumption has emerged as a key impediment to their deployment on embedded and mobile devices. Towards efficient image classification under hardware constraints, prior work has proposed adaptive CNNs, i.e., …
Flexible framework improves communication efficiency across various systems.
In this paper, we introduce the problem of decision-oriented communications, that is, the goal of the source is to send the right amount of information in order for the intended destination to execute a task. More specifically, we restrict our attention to how the source should quantize information so that the destinat…
The implementation of optimal power flow (OPF) methods to perform voltage and power flow regulation in electric networks is generally believed to require extensive communication. We consider distribution systems with multiple controllable Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) and present a data-driven approach to learn c…
Machine learning has been applied to several problems in particle physics research, beginning with applications to high-level physics analysis in the 1990s and 2000s, followed by an explosion of applications in particle and event identification and reconstruction in the 2010s. In this document we discuss promising futu…
New AI model improves grid planning efficiency and reliability.
Networks capture pairwise interactions between entities and are frequently used in applications such as social networks, food networks, and protein interaction networks, to name a few. Communities, cohesive groups of nodes, often form in these applications, and identifying them gives insight into the overall organizati…
Conversion of corn to ethanol in the US since 2005 has been a major cause of global food price increases during that time and has been shown to be ineffective in achieving US energy independence and reducing environmental impact. We make three key statements to enhance understanding and communication about ethanol prod…
Survey of reinforcement learning for sustainable energy challenges.
We provide a bridge between generative modeling in the Machine Learning community and simulated physical processes in High Energy Particle Physics by applying a novel Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) architecture to the production of jet images -- 2D representations of energy depositions from particles interacting …
A new method for efficient online federated learning reduces communication overhead.
New electromagnetic curvature defined via Jacobi-Maupertuis, showing positive curvature for non-zero magnetic force.
Paper proposes a DRL-based controller for networked AP systems that reduces communication frequency.
DSVGD improves federated learning with fewer communication rounds.
Distance-based tests, also called "energy statistics", are leading methods for two-sample and independence tests from the statistics community. Kernel-based tests, developed from "kernel mean embeddings", are leading methods for two-sample and independence tests from the machine learning community. A fixed-point transf…
A new method combines energy-based models and entropy-regularized optimal transport.
Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are currently being used as function approximators in many state-of-the-art Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms. Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have been shown to drastically reduce the energy consumption of ANNs by encoding information in sparse temporal binary spike streams, hence…
Study uses AUVs and RL to map river plumes over multiple days.
A new method for faster spatial modeling on exascale computers.
Recent innovations in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) provide new opportunities and challenges for integration of distributed energy resources (DERs) into the energy supply system as active market players. By increasing integration of DERs, novel market platform should be designed for these new market …
An on-going debate in the energy economics and power market community has raised the question if energy-only power markets are increasingly failing due to growing feed-in shares from subsidized renewable energy sources (RES). The short answer to this is: No, they are not failing. Energy-based power markets are, however…
DePAint solves MARL for agents with local constraints, privacy, and no central controller.
AI methods are energy-intensive, but efficiency alone isn't enough for sustainability.
Semi-decentralized federated learning combines device-to-server and device-to-device communications for faster convergence.
Improved SNNs with quantized activations outperform traditional networks.
Bio-inspired neuromorphic hardware is a research direction to approach brain's computational power and energy efficiency. Spiking neural networks (SNN) encode information as sparsely distributed spike trains and employ spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP) mechanism for learning. Existing hardware implementations of…
Energy statistics was proposed by Sz\' ekely in the 80's inspired by Newton's gravitational potential in classical mechanics and it provides a model-free hypothesis test for equality of distributions. In its original form, energy statistics was formulated in Euclidean spaces. More recently, it was generalized to metric…
New algorithms improve signal processing in federated learning.
New method uses surrogate gradients to train efficient spiking networks on neuromorphic hardware.
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are envisioned to complement the 5G communication infrastructure in future smart cities. Hot spots easily appear in road intersections, where effective communication among vehicles is challenging. UAVs may serve as relays with the advantages of low price, easy deployment, line-of-sight l…
Model compression has emerged as an important area of research for deploying deep learning models on Internet-of-Things (IoT). However, for extremely memory-constrained scenarios, even the compressed models cannot fit within the memory of a single device and, as a result, must be distributed across multiple devices. Th…
In recent work, we have proven uniform decay bounds for solutions of the wave equation on a Schwarzschild exterior, in particular, the uniform pointwise estimate , which holds throughout the domain of outer communications, where is an advanced Eddington-Finkelstein coordinate, $v_+=\ma…
Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are distributed trainable systems whose computing elements, or neurons, are characterized by internal analog dynamics and by digital and sparse synaptic communications. The sparsity of the synaptic spiking inputs and the corresponding event-driven nature of neural processing can be levera…
Learning-based link scheduling improves network performance in millimeter-wave multi-connectivity.