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: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.
By Ke Xue, Ruo-Tong Chen, Rong-Xi Tan, Xi Lin, Yunqi Shi, Siyuan Xu, Mingxuan Yuan, Chao Qian
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:2608. 13293v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Edge AI deployment demands neural architectures that are simultaneously accurate, computationally efficient, and hardware-deployable - a challenge addressed by hardware-aware Neural Architecture Search (NAS).
By Eleftherios Mylonas, Angelos Kouprizas, Michael Birbas, Alexios Birbas
arXiv:2511. 22651v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Optimization methods have long advanced many fields, yet they struggle when faced with design problems where the search space and design parameters are difficult to define.
By Anthony Carreon, Vansh Sharma, Venkat Raman
arXiv:2605. 16138v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Neural architecture search (NAS) is a powerful approach for automating model design, but existing methods often optimize for accuracy alone or rely on proxy metrics such as bit operations (BOPs) that correlate poorly with hardware cost.
By Jason Weitz, Dmitri Demler, Benjamin Hawks, Aaron Wang, Nhan Tran, Javier Duarte