New method assesses energy storage value beyond cost reduction.
problem Improving energy storage value beyond cost reduction.
method Market potential method to evaluate and compare energy storage technologies.
result High-cost hydrogen storage can be more valuable than low-cost hydrogen storage.
A new energy-efficient pruning method for federated learning.
problem Energy inefficiency in gradient sparsification for federated learning.
method Formalized energy-constrained projection problem and proposed Cost-Weighted Magnitude Pruning (CWMP).
result CWMP optimally balances performance and energy efficiency in federated learning.
Bitcoin mining costs remain stable despite increased activity.
problem Stability of Bitcoin mining costs despite rising energy consumption.
method Estimation of global energy cost over a decade, considering changing oil costs and technological improvements.
result The cost of Bitcoin mining has remained relatively stable since 2010, relative to the volume of transactions.
A model is presented in this work for simulating endogenously the evolution of the marginal costs of production of energy carriers from non-renewable resources, their consumption, depletion pathways and timescales. Such marginal costs can be used to simulate the long term average price formation of energy commodities. …
New pricing framework allocates costs of operating reserves and transmission.
problem Allocating costs of operating reserves and transmission efficiently.
method Causation-based framework using contingency-constrained scheduling models.
result More comprehensive and efficient cost-reflective market operations.
New algorithm reduces costs in wind energy systems by minimizing decision changes.
problem Costs associated with decision changes in wind energy systems.
method Episodic CBO with movement costs using Gaussian Process and mirror descent.
result Our algorithm consistently outperforms standard CBO in altitude optimization.
New system assigns vehicles to routes for cost and energy efficiency.
problem Optimizing vehicle route assignment for cost and energy efficiency.
method Machine learning-based neural network algorithm to estimate energy consumption and provide real-time recommendations.
result Demonstrated efficient vehicle assignment for medium and heavy duty trucks.
Improves energy efficiency of neuromorphic hardware by optimizing memory organization and encoding schemes.
problem Energy inefficiency in neuromorphic hardware, especially in digital accelerators.
method Synthesized controller and memory for different encoding schemes, introduced functional encoding for structured connectivity.
result Functional encoding offers a 58% reduction in energy for weight updates in convolutional layers.
Residential homes constitute roughly one-fourth of the total energy usage worldwide. Providing appliance-level energy breakdown has been shown to induce positive behavioral changes that can reduce energy consumption by 15%. Existing approaches for energy breakdown either require hardware installation in every target ho…
We introduce a new online learning framework where, at each trial, the learner is required to select a subset of actions from a given known action set. Each action is associated with an energy value, a reward and a cost. The sum of the energies of the actions selected cannot exceed a given energy budget. The goal is to…
Poisson variational autoencoders introduce a metabolic cost term that penalizes high baseline activity.
problem Energy constraints in computation.
method Poisson variational autoencoders with a Kullback-Leibler divergence term proportional to firing rates.
result Poisson variational autoencoders introduce a metabolic cost term that penalizes high baseline activity.
E2GC optimizes energy efficiency in DNNs by balancing computational and data movement costs.
problem Imbalance between computational complexity and data reuse in GConv leads to suboptimal energy efficiency.
method Developed an optimum group size model and proposed E2GC module with constant group size.
result E2GC modules improve energy efficiency by 10.8% and 4.73% on P100 and P4000 GPUs, respectively.
We show that different rates should be used for borrowing and discount rates, and that the risk-free rate should be used for discounting when assessing and comparing the cost of energy accross diffferent producers and technologies, on the example of photovoltaics. Recent quantitative models using the same rate for borr…
oPoW proposes a new PoW algorithm to reduce mining costs and environmental impact.
problem Scalability issues, environmental concerns, and systemic risks in Bitcoin PoW.
method oPoW is a novel PoW algorithm that shifts mining costs from electricity to hardware (CAPEX).
result oPoW reduces mining costs and improves network scalability, decentralization, and issuance.
Study links cognitive effort to thermodynamic principles, optimizing decision-making.
problem Understanding the energy cost of decision-making in living systems.
method Applied Landauer's principle to analyze belief dynamics in a two-armed bandit game.
result Cognitive energy cost correlates with optimal decision-making outcomes.
An increase in energy production from renewable energy sources is viewed as a crucial achievement in most industrialized countries. The higher variability of power production via renewables leads to a rise in ancillary service costs over the power system, in particular costs within the electricity balancing markets, ma…
SmartDeal reduces energy and storage costs for deep neural networks.
problem Heavy parameterization of deep neural networks leads to inefficient use of DRAM.
method SmartDeal decomposes weights into a small basis matrix and a structurally sparse coefficient matrix, quantized to power-of-2.
result Up to 2.44x energy efficiency improvement in inference and 10.56x reduction in training energy.
Paper proposes MAMRL for efficient energy dispatch in self-powered edge computing systems.
problem High energy consumption in self-powered edge computing systems.
method Developed a semi-distributed data-driven MAMRL framework to solve a two-stage linear stochastic programming problem.
result The proposed MAMRL framework reduces up to 11% non-renewable energy usage and 22.4% energy cost.
Domain Adaptation in 6G wireless networks: When is it green?
problem Energy consumption of Domain Adaptation (UDA) compared to single-task training in 6G wireless networks.
method Investigate energy consumption and propose a method to determine the minimum number of target domains for UDA to be more energy-efficient than retraining.
result Proposed a method to determine the minimum number of target domains for UDA to be more energy-efficient than retraining.
Using Intel's Loihi neuromorphic research chip and ABR's Nengo Deep Learning toolkit, we analyze the inference speed, dynamic power consumption, and energy cost per inference of a two-layer neural network keyword spotter trained to recognize a single phrase. We perform comparative analyses of this keyword spotter runni…
Study examines barriers to grid-connected battery systems in Spain, finding high cycle cost remains main obstacle.
problem Barriers to grid-connected battery systems in Spain's deregulated electricity market.
method Utilization analysis and concept of 'potentially profitable utilization time' introduced.
result High cycle cost remains the main barrier for grid-connected battery systems in Spain.
Optimizes renewable energy mix to meet carbon-free targets at lowest cost.
problem Minimizing annual procurement costs while achieving specified carbon-free hourly performance.
method Probabilistic framework with simulation scenarios and probability constraints. Fixed set of renewable generators and load customer.
result Demonstrated that certain renewable energy portfolios can meet carbon-free targets at lower costs compared to others.
This paper forecasts renewable energy prospects in South America through cross-border interconnection.
problem Lack of renewable energy integration across South American countries.
method Long-term scenario forecasting methodology applied to raw data from typical countries.
result Promoting cross-border interconnection towards renewables can optimize energy supply, reduce costs, and balance the energy matrix.
Study optimizes SREC generation and trading in solar energy markets.
problem Optimizing solar energy generation and trading in SREC markets.
method Mean-field game approach to solve stochastic game with heterogeneous agents.
result Characterized firms' optimal controls and equilibrium SREC price.
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been increasingly deployed to edge devices. Hence, many efforts have been made towards efficient CNN inference in resource-constrained platforms. This paper attempts to explore an orthogonal direction: how to conduct more energy-efficient training of CNNs, so as to enable on-de…
New proof of energy functional monotonicity via geodesics in measure space.
problem Proving monotonicity of energy functional in generalized Ricci flow.
method Defining adapted cost functional, geodesics, and entropy functional.
result Monotonicity of cost along backwards heat flow and energy functional along generalized Ricci flow.
The grid integration of intermittent Renewable Energy Sources (RES) causes costs for grid operators due to forecast uncertainty and the resulting production schedule mismatches. These so-called profile service costs are marginal cost components and can be understood as an insurance fee against RES production schedule u…
Paper benchmarks and customizes energy forecasting methods.
problem Energy forecasting challenges and differences from traditional time series.
method Collected large-scale load datasets and renewable energy datasets. Developed feature engineering and customized loss functions.
result Comprehensive evaluation of 21 forecasting methods in energy datasets.
Model predicts climate change's impact on real estate prices.
problem Impact of climate transition on real estate prices.
method Modeling property valuation using Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes and carbon prices.
result Depreciation of inefficient real estate assets due to climate transition is quantifiable.
Traditional centralized energy systems have the disadvantages of difficult management and insufficient incentives. Blockchain is an emerging technology, which can be utilized in energy systems to enhance their management and control. Integrating token economy and blockchain technology, token economic systems in energy …
This study prioritizes temporal resolution over spatial in energy systems models due to higher influence.
problem The impact of spatial and temporal resolution on energy system models.
method Global sensitivity analysis to compare structural aspects, spatial, and temporal resolution.
result Temporal resolution has a higher influence on all results parameters compared to spatial resolution.
This paper optimizes a power-to-heat system using reinforcement learning for cost minimization under uncertain conditions.
problem Optimizing a power-to-heat system with fluctuating renewable energy sources.
method Stochastic optimal control, reinforcement learning (Q-learning).
result Reinforcement learning provides an efficient solution to the optimization problem.
Improves generative models for cost-sensitive decisions.
problem Generative models lack awareness of decision costs.
method Integrates a decision loss into the training objective.
result Improves cost-sensitive forecast accuracy.
Ownership cost calculation plays an important role in optimal operation of distributed energy resources (DERs) and microgrids (MGs) in the future power system, known as smart grid. In this paper, a general framework for ownership cost calculation is proposed using uncertainty and risk analyses. Four ownership cost calc…
A new stochastic method handles ensemble creation with cost constraints.
problem Creating ensembles under cost limitations in decision-making.
method Introducing a novel stochastic approach to solve the knapsack problem.
result The approach efficiently incorporates ensemble accuracy and cost constraints.
The free energy functional has recently been proposed as a variational principle for bounded rational decision-making, since it instantiates a natural trade-off between utility gains and information processing costs that can be axiomatically derived. Here we apply the free energy principle to general decision trees tha…
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…
New attacks exploit neural network energy and latency, increasing costs by 10-200x.
problem Energy and latency vulnerabilities in neural networks.
method Crafted sponge examples to maximize energy and latency.
result Adversaries can increase energy consumption by 10-200x and delay decisions.
SmartExchange trades memory for computation in neural networks.
problem Energy-efficient inference of deep neural networks.
method Algorithm-hardware co-design framework integrating sparsification, decomposition, and quantization.
result SmartExchange reduces energy consumption and improves performance.
The problem of continuous inverse optimal control (over finite time horizon) is to learn the unknown cost function over the sequence of continuous control variables from expert demonstrations. In this article, we study this fundamental problem in the framework of energy-based model, where the observed expert trajectori…
This study optimizes energy storage scheduling under price uncertainty, balancing risk and reward.
problem Optimizing energy storage operation under price uncertainty and risk.
method Two-stage stochastic risk-constrained approach using conditional value-at-risk.
result Increasing risk aversion leads to substantial benefits in terms of risk reduction and expected reward.
Designing energy-efficient networks is of critical importance for enabling state-of-the-art deep learning in mobile and edge settings where the computation and energy budgets are highly limited. Recently, Liu et al. (2019) framed the search of efficient neural architectures into a continuous splitting process: it itera…
Energy savings for DNN inference on resource-constrained devices.
problem Energy efficiency in deep learning inference for constrained devices.
method Efficiently searches through equivalent DNN graphs to find the one with the least execution cost.
result Achieves 24% energy savings with minimal performance impact.
A brisk building boom of hydropower mega-dams is underway from China to Brazil. Whether benefits of new dams will outweigh costs remains unresolved despite contentious debates. We investigate this question with the "outside view" or "reference class forecasting" based on literature on decision-making under uncertainty …
Paper optimizes neural network layers to reduce energy usage without sacrificing accuracy.
problem Energy consumption in deep neural networks during inference.
method Layerwise noise maximization to optimize reliability of memory elements.
result Reduces memory energy consumption by 3.3 times at equal accuracy.
Quantum computing offers energy savings over classical computing.
problem Energy efficiency in computing services.
method Cournot competition model constrained by energy usage.
result Quantum computing firms can outperform classical counterparts in energy efficiency.
A new algorithm for estimating continuous entropic barycenters under arbitrary costs.
problem Estimating the average of probability distributions under arbitrary cost functions.
method Dual reformulation of Entropic Optimal Transport (EOT) problem based on weak OT.
result Established quality bounds for the recovered solution and seamless integration with EBM learning.
We develop a general Minmax procedure in Euclidian spaces for constructing Willmore surfaces of non zero indices. We implement this procedure to the Willmore Minmax Sphere Eversion in the 3 dimensional euclidian space. We compute the cost of the Sphere eversion in terms of Willmore energies of Willmore Spheres in ${\R}…