2026
Position: Sustainable Open-Source AI Requires Tracking the Cumulative Footprint of Derivatives
shaina raza, Iuliia Zarubiieva, Ahmed Radwan, Nathaniel Lesperance, Deval Pandya, Sedef Akinli Kocak +1
ICML 2026spotlight
Open-source AI is scaling rapidly, and model hubs now host millions of artifacts. Each foundation model can spawn large numbers of fine-tunes, adapters, quantizations, merges, and forks. We take the position that compute efficiency alone is insufficient for sustainability in open-source AI. Lower pe…