3 papers
cs.AR2026
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…
cs.AR2026
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…
cs.LG2025
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…