The Hidden Carbon Cost of Aligning AI: Carbon-Aware Scheduling for Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

Saher Elsayed. The Hidden Carbon Cost of Aligning AI: Carbon-Aware Scheduling for Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback. In Proceedings of the 2026 ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies, COMPASS 2026, Virtual Event, USA, July 27-31, 2026. pages 157-166, ACM, 2026. [doi]

@inproceedings{Elsayed26-4,
  title = {The Hidden Carbon Cost of Aligning AI: Carbon-Aware Scheduling for Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback},
  author = {Saher Elsayed},
  year = {2026},
  doi = {10.1145/3811242.3819088},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3811242.3819088},
  researchr = {https://researchr.org/publication/Elsayed26-4},
  cites = {0},
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  pages = {157-166},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2026 ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies, COMPASS 2026, Virtual Event, USA, July 27-31, 2026},
  publisher = {ACM},
  isbn = {979-8-4007-2702-3},
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