Power
Create power measurement techniques for various MLPerf benchmarks that enable reporting and comparing energy consumption, performance and power of benchmarks run on submission systems.
Purpose
Power consumption and energy efficiency are critical challenges for deploying and operating machine learning systems across the spectrum, from battery-powered smartphones to the world’s largest data centers. The Power working group will create tools to measure power for machine learning systems to evaluate efficiency and guide system optimization and design trade-offs.
Deliverables
- Power measurement techniques built on industry-standard tools
- List of approved power analyzers
- Power result metrics and format
- Initial deliverable is integration with MLPerf Inference v1.0 for wall-powered systems
- Roadmap for battery-powered system and MLPerf Training
Meeting Schedule
Tuesday July 28, 2026 – 15:05 – 16:00 Pacific Time
How to Join and Access Power Resources
The Power working group is limited exclusively to MLCommons members and affiliates. If you are not already a member or affiliate or part of a member or affiliate company, you can learn more about MLCommons membership here.
To sign up for the group mailing list, receive the meeting invite, and access shared documents and meeting minutes:
- Fill out our subscription form and indicate that you’d like to join the Power Working Group.
- Associate a Google account with your organizational email address.
- Once your request to join the Power Working Group is approved, you’ll be able to access the Power folder in the Members Google Drive.
To engage in working group discussions, join the working group’s channels on the MLCommons Discord server.
To access the GitHub repository (public):
- If you want to contribute code, please submit your GitHub ID to our subscription form.
- Visit the GitHub repository.
Power Working Group Chairs
Chairs
To contact all Power working group chairs, email [email protected].
Arun Tejus Raghunath Rajan
Tejus is a Technical Lead at Intel influencing Intel Products and IPs in the AI and HPC space. He has been at Intel since Summer 2011 and has experience in power modeling, post silicon power analysis and setting requirements for future Intel products. He has had experience in the Small Form Factor and wearables segments as well during this time. He has also served as the President of an Intel Employee Resource Groups helping drive mentorship and D&I efforts within the company. Prior to Intel, he was a Product Engineer at a university startup. Tejus has done his Master’s from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City and Bachelor’s from SRM University in India. Outside of work, he continues his passion for numbers and modeling by participating in soccer fantasy leagues and is an avid soccer fan.
David Slik
Chair
David Slik is a research scientist at Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd., focusing on emerging storage technologies. He has over 25 years of experience building large-scale distributed storage systems, industrial Internet-of-Things infrastructure and smart grid technologies, and has been granted over 75 patents for his work. In addition to his contributions at MLCommons, David is an author of multiple ISO/IEC standards, is the chair of the SNIA Cloud Storage technical work group, and is a contributor to DMTF and NVMe standards.