arXiv AI

BBOPlace-Bench: Benchmarking Black-Box Optimization for Chip Placement

arXiv:2510. 23472v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Chip placement is a vital stage in modern chip design, and black-box optimization (BBO) has been applied to it for decades.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 8

Order Matters: Unveiling the Hidden Impact of Macro Placement Sequences via Proxy-Guided LLM Evolution

Macro placement is a fundamental step in modern chip physical design, playing a crucial role in determining the solution quality of high-dimensional combinatorial optimization problems. Despite recent advancements in machine learning for spatial coordinate determination, the temporal dimension of placement sequencing remains largely governed by static heuristics.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 8

Amortized Neural Optimization for Pre-Layout Signal Integrity Design Space Exploration using Differentiable Surrogates

arXiv:2606. 07463v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pre-layout design space exploration (DSE) for high-speed signal integrity (SI) analysis is often limited by the computational cost of simulations and iterative optimization algorithms within modern electronic design automation (EDA) workflows.

By Julian With\"oft, Werner John, Emre Ecik, Ralf Br\"uning, J\"urgen G\"otze
arXiv AI
Aug 7

MicroEvo: Knowledge-Guided LLM Sampling for Efficient Microarchitecture Design Space Exploration

arXiv:2608. 06183v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Microarchitecture design space exploration suffers from expansive search spaces and expensive PPA evaluation, leaving only a small simulation budget for design decision-making.

By Jia Xiong, Runkai Li, Chenxu Niu, Guangyuan Gao, Changwen Xing, Yifan Zhang, Xinlai Wan, Jieran Cui, Chen Bai, Yusheng Hua, Ying Wang, Ming Ling, Xi Wang, Tao Xie
arXiv AI
Aug 11

ArchAgent v2: A Case Study with the Data Prefetching Championship

arXiv:2608. 09874v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic artificial intelligence has shown great promise in automating algorithm design, but scaling similar techniques to computer microarchitecture discovery remains challenging due to vast search spaces, strict hardware budgets, and long simulation times.

By Abraham Gonzalez, Raghav Gupta, Akanksha Jain, Hanna Alam, Alexander Novikov, Po-Sen Huang, Matej Balog, Marvin Eisenberger, Sergey Shirobokov, Ng\^an V\~u, Hank Levy, Borivoje Nikoli\'c, Sagar Karandikar, Martin Dixon, Parthasarathy Ranganathan
arXiv AI
Jun 2

FrontierOR: Benchmarking LLMs' Capacity for Efficient Algorithm Design in Large-Scale Optimization

arXiv:2605. 25246v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for optimization modeling and solver-code generation, yet practical operations research and optimization problems often require a harder capability: designing scalable algorithms that exploit problem structure and outperform direct formulation-and-solve baselines.

By Minwei Kong, Chonghe Jiang, Ao Qu, Wenbin Ouyang, Zhaoming Zeng, Xiaotong Guo, Zhekai Li, Junyi Li, Yi Fan, Xinshou Zheng, Xi Jing, Yikai Zhang, Zhiwei Liang, Seonghoo Kim, Runqing Yang, Zijian Zhou, Sirui Li, Han Zheng, Wangyang Ying, Ou Zheng, Chonghuan Wang, Jinglong Zhao, Hanzhang Qin, Cathy Wu, Paul Pu Liang, Jinhua Zhao, Hai Wang