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The Hidden Cost of an Image: Quantifying the Energy Consumption of AI Image Generation

As of 17 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 38 of 38 outbound references and 1 inbound Pith citation observation for arXiv:2506.17016.

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Observation b94fe944-f3cb-4ed8-8988-8a6f2e2e4c71 · outbound

This paper cites Verdecchia, J.

The Hidden Cost of an Image: Quantifying the Energy Consumption of AI Image Generation Verdecchia, J

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This paper cites Watt For What: Rethinking Deep Learning's Energy-Performance Relationship.

The Hidden Cost of an Image: Quantifying the Energy Consumption of AI Image Generation Watt For What: Rethinking Deep Learning's Energy-Performance Relationship

Reference 2

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This paper cites Casta ˜no, S.

The Hidden Cost of an Image: Quantifying the Energy Consumption of AI Image Generation Casta ˜no, S

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The Hidden Cost of an Image: Quantifying the Energy Consumption of AI Image Generation Unresolved cited work

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This paper cites Razzhigaev, A.

The Hidden Cost of an Image: Quantifying the Energy Consumption of AI Image Generation Razzhigaev, A

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Observation dda68f0d-1e82-4a73-b4fa-8d3449314a61 · outbound

This paper cites PixArt-$\alpha$: Fast Training of Diffusion Transformer for Photorealistic Text-to-Image Synthesis.

The Hidden Cost of an Image: Quantifying the Energy Consumption of AI Image Generation PixArt-$\alpha$: Fast Training of Diffusion Transformer for Photorealistic Text-to-Image Synthesis

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This paper cites Heusel, H.

The Hidden Cost of an Image: Quantifying the Energy Consumption of AI Image Generation Heusel, H

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The Hidden Cost of an Image: Quantifying the Energy Consumption of AI Image Generation Unresolved cited work

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This paper cites Salimans, I.

The Hidden Cost of an Image: Quantifying the Energy Consumption of AI Image Generation Salimans, I

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This paper cites CLIPScore: A Reference-free Evaluation Metric for Image Captioning.

The Hidden Cost of an Image: Quantifying the Energy Consumption of AI Image Generation CLIPScore: A Reference-free Evaluation Metric for Image Captioning

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This paper cites Szegedy, V.

The Hidden Cost of an Image: Quantifying the Energy Consumption of AI Image Generation Szegedy, V

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The Hidden Cost of an Image: Quantifying the Energy Consumption of AI Image Generation Unresolved cited work

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This paper cites Lumina-T2X: Transforming Text into Any Modality, Resolution, and Duration via Flow-based Large Diffusion Transformers.

The Hidden Cost of an Image: Quantifying the Energy Consumption of AI Image Generation Lumina-T2X: Transforming Text into Any Modality, Resolution, and Duration via Flow-based Large Diffusion Transformers

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This paper cites Rombach, A.

The Hidden Cost of an Image: Quantifying the Energy Consumption of AI Image Generation Rombach, A

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This paper cites Sauer, D.

The Hidden Cost of an Image: Quantifying the Energy Consumption of AI Image Generation Sauer, D

Reference 15

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This paper cites Esser, S.

The Hidden Cost of an Image: Quantifying the Energy Consumption of AI Image Generation Esser, S

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This paper cites Flash Diffusion: Accelerating Any Conditional Diffusion Model for Few Steps Image Generation.

The Hidden Cost of an Image: Quantifying the Energy Consumption of AI Image Generation Flash Diffusion: Accelerating Any Conditional Diffusion Model for Few Steps Image Generation

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This paper cites Sohl-Dickstein, E.

The Hidden Cost of an Image: Quantifying the Energy Consumption of AI Image Generation Sohl-Dickstein, E

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This paper cites Radford, J.

The Hidden Cost of an Image: Quantifying the Energy Consumption of AI Image Generation Radford, J

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This paper cites Peebles, S.

The Hidden Cost of an Image: Quantifying the Energy Consumption of AI Image Generation Peebles, S

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This paper cites Vaswani, Attention is all you need, Advances in Neural Information Pro- cessing Systems (2017).

The Hidden Cost of an Image: Quantifying the Energy Consumption of AI Image Generation Vaswani, Attention is all you need, Advances in Neural Information Pro- cessing Systems (2017)

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This paper cites An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale.

The Hidden Cost of an Image: Quantifying the Energy Consumption of AI Image Generation An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale

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This paper cites Hierarchical Text-Conditional Image Generation with CLIP Latents.

The Hidden Cost of an Image: Quantifying the Energy Consumption of AI Image Generation Hierarchical Text-Conditional Image Generation with CLIP Latents

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This paper cites SDXL: Improving Latent Diffusion Models for High-Resolution Image Synthesis.

The Hidden Cost of an Image: Quantifying the Energy Consumption of AI Image Generation SDXL: Improving Latent Diffusion Models for High-Resolution Image Synthesis

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The Hidden Cost of an Image: Quantifying the Energy Consumption of AI Image Generation SDXL-Lightning: Progressive Adversarial Diffusion Distillation

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The Hidden Cost of an Image: Quantifying the Energy Consumption of AI Image Generation Hyper-SD: Trajectory Segmented Consistency Model for Efficient Image Synthesis

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The Hidden Cost of an Image: Quantifying the Energy Consumption of AI Image Generation Progressive Knowledge Distillation Of Stable Diffusion XL Using Layer Level Loss

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The Hidden Cost of an Image: Quantifying the Energy Consumption of AI Image Generation Latent Consistency Models: Synthesizing High-Resolution Images with Few-Step Inference

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The Hidden Cost of an Image: Quantifying the Energy Consumption of AI Image Generation Krizhevsky, G

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This paper cites Phi-3 Technical Report: A Highly Capable Language Model Locally on Your Phone.

The Hidden Cost of an Image: Quantifying the Energy Consumption of AI Image Generation Phi-3 Technical Report: A Highly Capable Language Model Locally on Your Phone

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The Hidden Cost of an Image: Quantifying the Energy Consumption of AI Image Generation Wind, Top 40 useful prompts for stable diffusion xl, https://medium.com/phygital/top-40-useful-prompts-for-stable-diffusion- xl-008c03dd0557, accessed: 2025-03-07 (Dec

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The Hidden Cost of an Image: Quantifying the Energy Consumption of AI Image Generation Courty, V

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The Hidden Cost of an Image: Quantifying the Energy Consumption of AI Image Generation streetcar

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The Hidden Cost of an Image: Quantifying the Energy Consumption of AI Image Generation streetcar

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From Cradle to Cloud: A Life Cycle Review of AI's Environmental Footprint cites this paper.

From Cradle to Cloud: A Life Cycle Review of AI's Environmental Footprint The Hidden Cost of an Image: Quantifying the Energy Consumption of AI Image Generation

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