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Mapping Machine Learning to Physics (ML2P)

Dept of Defense · DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY (DARPA)

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Response deadline
Dec 17, 2025, 5:00 PM EST
Posted
Oct 6, 2025
Solicitation
DARPA-PS-25-32
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None listed
Place of performance
Contracting office
DEF ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGCY · ARLINGTON · VA
Source
SAM.gov · updated Jul 5, 2026

Description

Machine learning (ML) moves fast, but it needs power. More power than we have, and that�s the problem. The Department of Defense faces additional constraints with ML deployments at the edge in resource-limited battlefield environments. The ML2P program is about prioritizing power efficiency consumption right from the start. ML2P will map ML efficiency directly to physics using precise Joule measurements, enabling accurate power and performance predictions across diverse hardware architectures. ML2P will develop multi-objective optimization functions that balance power consumption with performance metrics and discover how local optimizations interact through Energy Semantics of ML (ES-ML) to solve the energy-aware ML optimization problem.

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