AlphaChip
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a reinforcement learning-based method trained to design the physical layout of chips; AlphaChip is reportedly used in three additional generations of Google’s TPU; this release includes an open-source implementation of the method to help pre-train on a variety of chip blocks to apply to new blocks; also releases a model checkpoint pre-trained on 20 TPU blocks.
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