Energy-Efficient Algorithms
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Demaine, Erik D
Lynch, Jayson R.
Mirano, Geronimo J.
Tyagi, Nirvan
Date Issued
January 2016
Journal
Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science (ITCS '16)
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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
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Demaine, Erik D., Jayson Lynch, Geronimo J. Mirano, and Nirvan Tyagi. “Energy-Efficient Algorithms.” Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science - ITCS ’16 (2016), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, January 14-17, 2016, pp. 321-332.
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Abstract
We initiate the systematic study of the energy complexity of algorithms (in addition to time and space complexity) based on Landauer's Principle in physics, which gives a lower bound on the amount of energy a system must dissipate if it destroys information. We propose energy-aware variations of three standard models of computation: circuit RAM, word RAM, and transdichotomous RAM. On top of these models, we build familiar high-level primitives such as control logic, memory allocation, and garbage collection with zero energy complexity and only constant-factor overheads in space and time complexity, enabling simple expression of energy-efficient algorithms. We analyze several classic algorithms in our models and develop low-energy variations: comparison sort, insertion sort, counting sort, breadth-first search, Bellman-Ford, Floyd-Warshall, matrix all-pairs shortest paths, AVL trees, binary heaps, and dynamic arrays. We explore the time/space/energy trade-off and develop several general techniques for analyzing algorithms and reducing their energy complexity. These results lay a theoretical foundation for a new field of semi-reversible computing and provide a new framework for the investigation of algorithms.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
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https://doi.org/10.1145/2840728.2840756
