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Published at November 15That Chip Has Sailed: A Critique of Unfounded Skepticism Around AI for Chip Design
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Released Date: November 15, 2024
Authors: Anna Goldie1, Azalia Mirhoseini1, Jeff Dean2
Aff.: 1Google DeepMind, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University; 2Google DeepMind, Google Research, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University

| Block Name from Cheng et al.’s Table 1 | Tensorboard? | Num Steps | Total Loss Curve |
| Ariane-NG45 | No | 1M | No Tensorboard. |
| BlackParrot-NG45 | No | ? | No Tensorboard. |
| MemPool-NG45 | Yes | 250k | Divergence at 100k steps, clearly has not converged. |
| Ariane-GF12 | Yes | 350k | Divergence at 130k steps, clearly has not converged. |
| BlackParrot-GF12 | Yes | 160k | Still converging, training stopped prematurely. |
| MemPool-GF12 | Yes | 250k | Still converging, training stopped prematurely. |