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20152026
most citedChip Placement with Deep Reinforcement Learning

152 citations · 265 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

physics.soc-ph2026

Mapping the Narrow Corridor with Large Language Models

Ebrahim M Songhori

Acemoglu and Robinson (2024 Nobel laureates in Economics) trace national histories in The Narrow Corridor as paths through a two-dimensional (state power, society power) space but…

cs.LG2026

See it to Place it: Evolving Macro Placements with Vision-Language Models

Ikechukwu Uchendu, Swati Goel, Karly Hou +5

We propose using Vision-Language Models (VLMs) for macro placement in chip floorplanning, a complex optimization task that has recently shown promising advancements through machine…

cs.LG2025

A2Perf: Real-World Autonomous Agents Benchmark

Ikechukwu Uchendu, Jason Jabbour, Korneel Van den Berghe +15

Autonomous agents and systems cover a number of application areas, from robotics and digital assistants to combinatorial optimization, all sharing common, unresolved research chall…

cs.LG2021★ 2 cited

Delving into Macro Placement with Reinforcement Learning

Zixuan Jiang, Ebrahim Songhori, Shen Wang +5

In physical design, human designers typically place macros via trial and error, which is a Markov decision process. Reinforcement learning (RL) methods have demonstrated superhuman…

cs.LG2021★ 50 cited

A Full-Stack Search Technique for Domain Optimized Deep Learning Accelerators

Dan Zhang, Safeen Huda, Ebrahim Songhori +4

The rapidly-changing deep learning landscape presents a unique opportunity for building inference accelerators optimized for specific datacenter-scale workloads. We propose Full-st…

cs.LG2020★ 152 cited

Chip Placement with Deep Reinforcement Learning

Azalia Mirhoseini, Anna Goldie, Mustafa Yazgan +19

In this work, we present a learning-based approach to chip placement, one of the most complex and time-consuming stages of the chip design process. Unlike prior methods, our approa…

cs.CR2019

ARM2GC: Succinct Garbled Processor for Secure Computation

Ebrahim M. Songhori, M. Sadegh Riazi, Siam U. Hussain +2

We present ARM2GC, a novel secure computation framework based on Yao's Garbled Circuit (GC) protocol and the ARM processor. It allows users to develop privacy-preserving applicatio…

cs.CR2018★ 51 cited

Chameleon: A Hybrid Secure Computation Framework for Machine Learning Applications

M. Sadegh Riazi, Christian Weinert, Oleksandr Tkachenko +3

We present Chameleon, a novel hybrid (mixed-protocol) framework for secure function evaluation (SFE) which enables two parties to jointly compute a function without disclosing thei…

cs.DC2015★ 10 cited

RankMap: A Platform-Aware Framework for Distributed Learning from Dense Datasets

Azalia Mirhoseini, Eva L. Dyer, Ebrahim. M. Songhori +2

This paper introduces RankMap, a platform-aware end-to-end framework for efficient execution of a broad class of iterative learning algorithms for massive and dense datasets. Our f…