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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…