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Self-Evolving Algorithm-Design Agents: Escaping In-Context Evolutionary Stagnation via Population-Curated Policy Optimization
Chen Lu, Ke Xue, Siyuan Xu +2
Large language models are increasingly participating in complex real-world tasks in the form of algorithm-design agents, designing and refining algorithms. Many successful algorith…
How Can Reinforcement Learning Achieve Expert-level Placement?
Ruo-Tong Chen, Ke Xue, Chengrui Gao +7
Chip placement is a critical step in physical design. While reinforcement learning (RL)-based methods have recently emerged, their training primarily focuses on wirelength optimiza…
FlowPlace: Flow Matching for Chip Placement
Peng Xie, Ke Xue, Yunqi Shi +6
Chip placement plays an important role in physical design. While generative models like diffusion models offer promising learning-based solutions, current methods have the followin…
ReMaP: Macro Placement by Recursively Prototyping and Packing Tree-based Relocating
Yunqi Shi, Xi Lin, Zhiang Wang +8
This work introduces the ReMaP method, which generates expert-quality macro placements through recursively prototyping and packing tree-based relocating. We first perf…
BBOPlace-Bench: Benchmarking Black-Box Optimization for Chip Placement
Ke Xue, Ruo-Tong Chen, Rong-Xi Tan +5
Chip placement is a vital stage in modern chip design, and black-box optimization (BBO) has been applied to it for decades. Early BBO efforts, however, were limited by immature pro…
Towards Universal Offline Black-Box Optimization via Learning Language Model Embeddings
Rong-Xi Tan, Ming Chen, Ke Xue +4
The pursuit of universal black-box optimization (BBO) algorithms is a longstanding goal. However, unlike domains such as language or vision, where scaling structured data has drive…
Quality-Diversity Red-Teaming: Automated Generation of High-Quality and Diverse Attackers for Large Language Models
Ren-Jian Wang, Ke Xue, Zeyu Qin +7
Ensuring the safety and robustness of large language models (LLMs) is a fundamental challenge and a critical prerequisite for the responsible deployment of artificial intelligence.…
Open3DBench: Open-Source Benchmark for 3D-IC Backend Implementation and PPA Evaluation
Yunqi Shi, Chengrui Gao, Wanqi Ren +6
This work introduces Open3DBench, an open-source 3D-IC backend implementation benchmark built upon the OpenROAD-flow-scripts framework, enabling comprehensive evaluation of power,…
Timing-Driven Global Placement by Efficient Critical Path Extraction
Yunqi Shi, Siyuan Xu, Shixiong Kai +4
Timing optimization during the global placement of integrated circuits has been a significant focus for decades, yet it remains a complex, unresolved issue. Recent analytical metho…
Pareto Set Learning for Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning
Erlong Liu, Yu-Chang Wu, Xiaobin Huang +4
Multi-objective decision-making problems have emerged in numerous real-world scenarios, such as video games, navigation and robotics. Considering the clear advantages of Reinforcem…
Reinforcement Learning Policy as Macro Regulator Rather than Macro Placer
Ke Xue, Ruo-Tong Chen, Xi Lin +4
In modern chip design, placement aims at placing millions of circuit modules, which is an essential step that significantly influences power, performance, and area (PPA) metrics. R…
Quality-Diversity with Limited Resources
Ren-Jian Wang, Ke Xue, Cong Guan +1
Quality-Diversity (QD) algorithms have emerged as a powerful optimization paradigm with the aim of generating a set of high-quality and diverse solutions. To achieve such a challen…
Offline Multi-Objective Optimization
Ke Xue, Rong-Xi Tan, Xiaobin Huang +1
Offline optimization aims to maximize a black-box objective function with a static dataset and has wide applications. In addition to the objective function being black-box and expe…
Escaping Local Optima in Global Placement
Ke Xue, Xi Lin, Yunqi Shi +3
Placement is crucial in the physical design, as it greatly affects power, performance, and area metrics. Recent advancements in analytical methods, such as DREAMPlace, have demonst…
Reinforced In-Context Black-Box Optimization
Lei Song, Chenxiao Gao, Ke Xue +5
Black-Box Optimization (BBO) has found successful applications in many fields of science and engineering. Recently, there has been a growing interest in meta-learning particular co…
Quality-Diversity Algorithms Can Provably Be Helpful for Optimization
Chao Qian, Ke Xue, Ren-Jian Wang
Quality-Diversity (QD) algorithms are a new type of Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs), aiming to find a set of high-performing, yet diverse solutions. They have found many successful a…
Stochastic Bayesian Optimization with Unknown Continuous Context Distribution via Kernel Density Estimation
Xiaobin Huang, Lei Song, Ke Xue +1
Bayesian optimization (BO) is a sample-efficient method and has been widely used for optimizing expensive black-box functions. Recently, there has been a considerable interest in B…