AI & Environment Resource HubStrubell, Emma; Ganesh, Ananya; McCallum, Andrew · 2019-06-05
Training large neural networks improves NLP accuracy but requires significant computational resources, leading to high financial and environmental costs.
Strubell, Emma; Ganesh, Ananya; McCallum, Andrew. 2019-06-05. Energy and Policy Considerations for Deep Learning in NLP. https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.02243 (AI & Environment Resource Hub; record paper-002; collection snapshot 2026-09-15).
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