Summary of Chip Placement with Diffusion Models, by Vint Lee et al.
Chip Placement with Diffusion Models
by Vint Lee, Minh Nguyen, Leena Elzeiny, Chun Deng, Pieter Abbeel, John Wawrzynek
First submitted to arxiv on: 17 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Hardware Architecture (cs.AR)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper presents a novel approach to optimizing macro placement in digital circuit design using diffusion models. The authors train a denoising model that can place new circuits zero-shot, eliminating the need for online training and reinforcement learning (RL). Instead, guided sampling is used to optimize placement quality. To enable large-scale pre-training, the authors designed an efficient architecture for the denoising model and proposed a novel algorithm for generating synthetic datasets. The study empirically explores the design decisions of the dataset generation algorithm, identifying key factors that enable generalization. When trained on synthetic data, the models generate high-quality placements on unseen circuits, matching state-of-the-art methods in placement benchmarks. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper is about making computers faster and more efficient by placing tiny pieces called “macros” on a chip. Macros are important because how they’re placed affects how well the computer works. The problem is that current methods take too long and don’t work well for new computers. The researchers came up with a new way to place macros using “diffusion models”. They trained these models to place macros without needing to learn about each specific computer. To make this possible, they designed special algorithms to generate lots of fake data, which allowed the models to learn quickly and accurately. This new method works just as well as other methods, but it’s faster and more efficient. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Diffusion » Generalization » Reinforcement learning » Synthetic data » Zero shot
