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The False Dawn: Reevaluating Google's Reinforcement Learning for Chip Macro Placement — mentioned by dogleg77

Mon, 02 Dec 2024 20:12:12 GMT

Markov's article has been on arxiv since 2023 before the perceived conflict. https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.09633 All his affiliations have been disclosed and likely known to Jeff Dean. Jeff is simply unable to respond to Markov's article in the technical dimension and is resorting to dirty tricks instead.

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The False Dawn: Reevaluating Google's Reinforcement Learning for Chip Macro Placement — mentioned by vighneshiyer

Fri, 27 Sep 2024 18:05:08 GMT

This work from Google (original Nature paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03544-w) has been credibly criticized by several researchers in the EDA CAD discipline. These papers are of interest: - A rebuttal by a researcher within Google who wrote this at the same time as the "AlphaChip" work was going on ("Stronger Baselines for Evaluating Deep Reinforcement Learning in Chip Placement"): http://47.190.89.225/pub/education/MLcontra.pdf - The 2023 ISPD paper from a group at UCSD ("Assessment of Reinforcement Learning for Macro Placement")…

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The False Dawn: Reevaluating Google's Reinforcement Learning for Chip Macro Placement — HN submission

Wed, 28 Jun 2023 01:36:31 GMT

The False Dawn: Reevaluating Google's RL for Chip Macro Placement

71 points; 17 discussion replies on HN. Paper and source history. A submission is not an endorsement.