arXiv:2606. 08904v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 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.
By Shibing Mo, Jing Liu, Jianchu Xu, Ruilin Wu
arXiv:2606. 29082v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Would experience designing faster GPU kernels also help close in on a long-standing open mathematical conjecture?
By Young-Jun Lee, Seungone Kim, Minki Kang, Alistair Cheong Liang Chuen, Zerui Chen, Seungho Han, Taehee Jung, Dongyeop Kang
arXiv:2605. 29649v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Heuristic search is the dominant paradigm in symbolic AI planning, and the strongest heuristics are the result of decades of work by planning researchers.
By Elliot Gestrin, Jendrik Seipp
arXiv:2607. 28947v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to solve complex problems by searching over program space, offering a general paradigm for scientific problems that can be naturally represented and solved as programs.
By Jingwen Fu, Zhen Liu, Yuhan Liu, He Zhang, Nanning Zheng
arXiv:2608. 04384v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neural PDE solver auto-design is fundamentally a search-space representation problem.
By Shengxin Kong, Liwen Xu, Jingwen Fu
arXiv:2607. 08791v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Designing effective multi-objective Bayesian optimization (MOBO) algorithms requires balancing many interdependent design choices whose optimal configuration is problem-dependent and typically demands deep expertise.
By Georgios Laskaris, Reuben Brasher, Niki van Stein, Elena Raponi, Thomas B\"ack, Florian Neukart
arXiv:2606. 10389v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in LLM-driven code evolution have enabled automated discovery by iteratively generating and improving programs.
By Haoran Li, Zengle Ge, Ziyang Zhang, Xiaomin Yuan, Yui Lo, Qianhui Liu, Bocheng An, Dongke Rong, Jiaqun Liu, Annan Li, Jianmin Wu, Dawei Yin, Dou Shen
arXiv:2506. 02594v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to synthesize heuristic programs, yet most existing pipelines optimize solvers against fixed benchmark distributions.
By Ruibo Duan, Yuxin Liu, Haoran Ye, Xinyao Dong, Zhiqiang Xu, Chenglin Fan
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:2603. 02510v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The transition from sequential to parallel computing is essential for modern high-performance applications but is hindered by the steep learning curve of concurrent programming.
By Liu Yang, Zeyu Nie, Andrew Liu, Felix Zou, Deniz Altinb\"uken, Amir Yazdanbakhsh, Quanquan C. Liu
arXiv:2606. 00131v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Post-link optimizers (PLOs) such as Propeller and BOLT have demonstrated that precise, profile-guided code layout can extract significant performance gains from heavily optimized binaries.
By Chaitanya Mamatha Ananda, Rajiv Gupta, Mircea Trofin, Aiden Grossman, Sriraman Tallam, Xinliang David Li, Amir Yazdanbakhsh
arXiv:2606. 06473v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly applied to long-horizon tasks such as scientific discovery and machine learning engineering (MLE), where sustained self-evolution becomes a key capability.
By Shangheng Du, Xiangchao Yan, Jinxin Shi, Zongsheng Cao, Shiyang Feng, Zichen Liang, Boyuan Sun, Tianshuo Peng, Yifan Zhou, Xin Li, Jie Zhou, Liang He, Bo Zhang, Lei Bai