Hoeffding Trees with nmin adaptation

• Machine learning software accounts for a significant amount of energy consumed in data centers. These algorithms are usually optimized towards predictive performance, i.e. accuracy, and scalability. This is the case of data stream mining algorithms. Although these algorithms are adaptive to the incoming data, they have fixed parameters from the beginning of the execution, which lead to energy hotspots. We present dynamic parameter adaptation for data stream mining algorithms to trade-off energy efficiency against accuracy during runtime. To validate this approach, we introduce the nmin adaptation method to improve parameter adaptation in Hoeffding trees. This method dynamically adapts the number of instances needed to make a split (nmin) and thereby reduces the overall energy consumption. We created an experiment to compare the Very Fast Decision Tree algorithm (VFDT, original Hoeffding tree algorithm) with nmin adaptation and the standard VFDT. The results show that VFDT with nmin adaptation consumes up to 89% less energy than the standard VFDT, trading off a few percent of accuracy. Our approach can be used to trade off energy consumption with predictive and computational performance in the strive towards resource-aware machine learning. 

Ämnesord

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap -- Datavetenskap (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences -- Computer Sciences (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Hoeffding trees

data stream mining

green computing

green machine learning

energy efficiency

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