Towards Green Automated Machine Learning

Status Quo and Future Directions

verfasst von

Tanja Tornede, Alexander Tornede, Jonas Hanselle, Felix Mohr, Marcel Wever, Eyke Hüllermeier

Abstract

Automated machine learning (AutoML) strives for the automatic configuration of machine learning algorithms and their composition into an overall (software) solution - a machine learning pipeline - tailored to the learning task (dataset) at hand. Over the last decade, AutoML has developed into an independent research field with hundreds of contributions. At the same time, AutoML is being criticized for its high resource consumption as many approaches rely on the (costly) evaluation of many machine learning pipelines, as well as the expensive large-scale experiments across many datasets and approaches. In the spirit of recent work on Green AI, this paper proposes Green AutoML, a paradigm to make the whole AutoML process more environmentally friendly. Therefore, we first elaborate on how to quantify the environmental footprint of an AutoML tool. Afterward, different strategies on how to design and benchmark an AutoML tool w.r.t. their "greenness", i.e., sustainability, are summarized. Finally, we elaborate on how to be transparent about the environmental footprint and what kind of research incentives could direct the community in a more sustainable AutoML research direction. As part of this, we propose a sustainability checklist to be attached to every AutoML paper featuring all core aspects of Green AutoML.

Externe Organisation(en)

Universität Paderborn
Universidad de la Sabana
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)
Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML)

Typ

Artikel

Journal

Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research

Band

77

Seiten

427-457

Anzahl der Seiten

31

ISSN

1076-9757

Publikationsdatum

2023

Publikationsstatus

Veröffentlicht

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Artificial intelligence

Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung

SDG 12 – Verantwortungsvoller Konsum und Produktion

Elektronische Version(en)

https://doi.org/10.1613/jair.1.14340 (Zugang: Offen)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.05850 (Zugang: Offen)