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most citedSustainability of Data Center Digital Twins with Reinforcement Learning

25 citations · 54 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Fast 3D Surrogate Modeling for Data Center Thermal Management

Soumyendu Sarkar, Antonio Guillen-Perez, Zachariah J Carmichael +6

Reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions in data centers by enabling real-time temperature prediction is critical for sustainability and operational efficiency. Achieving t…

cs.LG2025

DCcluster-Opt: Benchmarking Dynamic Multi-Objective Optimization for Geo-Distributed Data Center Workloads

Antonio Guillen-Perez, Avisek Naug, Vineet Gundecha +8

The increasing energy demands and carbon footprint of large-scale AI require intelligent workload management in globally distributed data centers. Yet progress is limited by the ab…

cs.LG2025

LC-Opt: Benchmarking Reinforcement Learning and Agentic AI for End-to-End Liquid Cooling Optimization in Data Centers

Avisek Naug, Antonio Guillen, Vineet Kumar +7

Liquid cooling is critical for thermal management in high-density data centers with the rising AI workloads. However, machine learning-based controllers are essential to unlock gre…

cs.CV2025

Robustness Evaluation for Video Models with Reinforcement Learning

Ashwin Ramesh Babu, Sajad Mousavi, Vineet Gundecha +5

Evaluating the robustness of Video classification models is very challenging, specifically when compared to image-based models. With their increased temporal dimension, there is a…

cs.CV2025

Coordinated Robustness Evaluation Framework for Vision-Language Models

Ashwin Ramesh Babu, Sajad Mousavi, Vineet Gundecha +5

Vision-language models, which integrate computer vision and natural language processing capabilities, have demonstrated significant advancements in tasks such as image captioning a…

cs.LG2025

Hierarchical Multi-Agent Framework for Carbon-Efficient Liquid-Cooled Data Center Clusters

Soumyendu Sarkar, Avisek Naug, Antonio Guillen +7

Reducing the environmental impact of cloud computing requires efficient workload distribution across geographically dispersed Data Center Clusters (DCCs) and simultaneously optimiz…

cs.LG2025★ 2 cited

Reinforcement Learning Platform for Adversarial Black-box Attacks with Custom Distortion Filters

Soumyendu Sarkar, Ashwin Ramesh Babu, Sajad Mousavi +5

We present a Reinforcement Learning Platform for Adversarial Black-box untargeted and targeted attacks, RLAB, that allows users to select from various distortion filters to create…

cs.LG2024

SustainDC: Benchmarking for Sustainable Data Center Control

Avisek Naug, Antonio Guillen, Ricardo Luna +8

Machine learning has driven an exponential increase in computational demand, leading to massive data centers that consume significant amounts of energy and contribute to climate ch…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

Robustness and Visual Explanation for Black Box Image, Video, and ECG Signal Classification with Reinforcement Learning

Soumyendu Sarkar, Ashwin Ramesh Babu, Sajad Mousavi +3

We present a generic Reinforcement Learning (RL) framework optimized for crafting adversarial attacks on different model types spanning from ECG signal analysis (1D), image classif…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

A Configurable Pythonic Data Center Model for Sustainable Cooling and ML Integration

Avisek Naug, Antonio Guillen, Ricardo Luna Gutierrez +5

There have been growing discussions on estimating and subsequently reducing the operational carbon footprint of enterprise data centers. The design and intelligent control for data…

cs.AI2024★ 1 cited

Function Approximation for Reinforcement Learning Controller for Energy from Spread Waves

Soumyendu Sarkar, Vineet Gundecha, Sahand Ghorbanpour +5

The industrial multi-generator Wave Energy Converters (WEC) must handle multiple simultaneous waves coming from different directions called spread waves. These complex devices in c…

cs.DC2024★ 25 cited

Sustainability of Data Center Digital Twins with Reinforcement Learning

Soumyendu Sarkar, Avisek Naug, Antonio Guillen +4

The rapid growth of machine learning (ML) has led to an increased demand for computational power, resulting in larger data centers (DCs) and higher energy consumption. To address t…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

Carbon Footprint Reduction for Sustainable Data Centers in Real-Time

Soumyendu Sarkar, Avisek Naug, Ricardo Luna +6

As machine learning workloads significantly increase energy consumption, sustainable data centers with low carbon emissions are becoming a top priority for governments and corporat…

cs.CL2023

N-Critics: Self-Refinement of Large Language Models with Ensemble of Critics

Sajad Mousavi, Ricardo Luna Gutiérrez, Desik Rengarajan +5

We propose a self-correction mechanism for Large Language Models (LLMs) to mitigate issues such as toxicity and fact hallucination. This method involves refining model outputs thro…

cs.CV2023

Benchmark Generation Framework with Customizable Distortions for Image Classifier Robustness

Soumyendu Sarkar, Ashwin Ramesh Babu, Sajad Mousavi +6

We present a novel framework for generating adversarial benchmarks to evaluate the robustness of image classification models. Our framework allows users to customize the types of d…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

RTDK-BO: High Dimensional Bayesian Optimization with Reinforced Transformer Deep kernels

Alexander Shmakov, Avisek Naug, Vineet Gundecha +5

Bayesian Optimization (BO), guided by Gaussian process (GP) surrogates, has proven to be an invaluable technique for efficient, high-dimensional, black-box optimization, a critical…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

PyDCM: Custom Data Center Models with Reinforcement Learning for Sustainability

Avisek Naug, Antonio Guillen, Ricardo Luna Gutiérrez +8

The increasing global emphasis on sustainability and reducing carbon emissions is pushing governments and corporations to rethink their approach to data center design and operation…

cs.LG2022★ 10 cited

Skip Training for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Controller for Industrial Wave Energy Converters

Soumyendu Sarkar, Vineet Gundecha, Sahand Ghorbanpour +4

Recent Wave Energy Converters (WEC) are equipped with multiple legs and generators to maximize energy generation. Traditional controllers have shown limitations to capture complex…

cs.CV2021★ 3 cited

Understanding Cognitive Fatigue from fMRI Scans with Self-supervised Learning

Ashish Jaiswal, Ashwin Ramesh Babu, Mohammad Zaki Zadeh +2

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a neuroimaging technique that records neural activations in the brain by capturing the blood oxygen level in different regions based…

cs.CV2020★ 2 cited

Automated system to measure Tandem Gait to assess executive functions in children

Mohammad Zaki Zadeh, Ashwin Ramesh Babu, Ashish Jaiswal +3

As mobile technologies have become ubiquitous in recent years, computer-based cognitive tests have become more popular and efficient. In this work, we focus on assessing motor func…

cs.CV2020

A Survey on Contrastive Self-supervised Learning

Ashish Jaiswal, Ashwin Ramesh Babu, Mohammad Zaki Zadeh +2

Self-supervised learning has gained popularity because of its ability to avoid the cost of annotating large-scale datasets. It is capable of adopting self-defined pseudo labels as…

cs.CV2018

Towards Deep Learning based Hand Keypoints Detection for Rapid Sequential Movements from RGB Images

Srujana Gattupalli, Ashwin Ramesh Babu, James Robert Brady +2

Hand keypoints detection and pose estimation has numerous applications in computer vision, but it is still an unsolved problem in many aspects. An application of hand keypoints det…