arXiv Machine Learning August 14, 2026 By Fin Amin, Sounak Dutta, Paul D. Franzon

Finding the Needle in a Haystack: Test-Time Analog Circuit Representation Adaptation for Bayesian Optimization

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arXiv:2608. 12687v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bayesian optimization (BO) is a sample-efficient framework for analog circuit topology search, where evaluating each candidate topology can require costly simulation.

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