<p>remember alphachip, a 2021 google paper that claimed that their RL-based methods outperformed the state-of-the-art methods for chip macro placement?</p><p>according to this new meta-analysis, their results dont replicate and are full of errors. there's also been allegations of fraud 👀</p><p><a href="https://cacm.acm.org/research/reevaluating-googles-reinforcement-learning-for-ic-macro-placement" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cacm.acm.org/research/reevalua</span><span class="invisible">ting-googles-reinforcement-learning-for-ic-macro-placement</span></a></p>
