arXiv:2602.00343cs.DCcs.AI2026-02

提出标准化碳足迹追踪方法,让联邦学习的环保性能可比可测。

Standardized Methods and Recommendations for Green Federated Learning

  • 用NVFlare和CodeCarbon实现分阶段碳排放追踪,涵盖训练、评估等全流程。
  • 实验显示协调延迟使碳排放最高增21.73倍,不同设备导致能耗差异达1.7倍。
  • 适合关注绿色AI、可持续联邦学习的研究者与实践者使用。

联邦学习(FL)可在保护隐私的前提下协同训练模型,但其环境影响因测量边界不一和报告方式不同而难以比较。本文提出一种基于NVIDIA NVFlare和CodeCarbon的实用碳核算方法,实现对初始化、每轮训练、评估及空闲/协调阶段的显式、分阶段碳排放追踪。为捕捉非计算因素影响,还通过可配置网络能耗模型估算模型更新传输带来的通信碳排放。在两个代表性任务上验证:CIFAR-10图像分类中,客户端效率受限时,系统级延迟与协调开销使总CO2e分别增加8.34倍(中等)和21.73倍(低效),远超基准;视网膜视盘分割任务中,更换GPU型号(H100 vs V100)导致运行时间差1.7倍(290分钟 vs 503分钟),各站点能耗与碳排放变化不均,凸显按站点、按轮次报告的重要性。结果支持建立统一碳核算标准,为可复现的‘绿色’联邦学习评估奠定基础。代码已开源。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training over privacy-sensitive, distributed data, but its environmental impact is difficult to compare across studies due to inconsistent measurement boundaries and heterogeneous reporting. We present a practical carbon-accounting methodology for FL CO2e tracking using NVIDIA NVFlare and CodeCarbon for explicit, phase-aware tasks (initialization, per-round training, evaluation, and idle/coordination). To capture non-compute effects, we additionally estimate communication emissions from transmitted model-update sizes under a network-configurable energy model. We validate the proposed approach on two representative workloads: CIFAR-10 image classification and retinal optic disk segmentation. In CIFAR-10, controlled client-efficiency scenarios show that system-level slowdowns and coordination effects can contribute meaningfully to carbon footprint under an otherwise fixed FL protocol, increasing total CO2e by 8.34x (medium) and 21.73x (low) relative to the high-efficiency baseline. In retinal segmentation, swapping GPU tiers (H100 vs.\ V100) yields a consistent 1.7x runtime gap (290 vs. 503 minutes) while producing non-uniform changes in total energy and CO2e across sites, underscoring the need for per-site and per-round reporting. Overall, our results support a standardized carbon accounting method that acts as a prerequisite for reproducible 'green' FL evaluation. Our code is available at https://github.com/Pediatric-Accelerated-Intelligence-Lab/carbon_footprint.

联邦学习碳足迹绿色AI能效优化

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