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remember alphachip, a 2021 google paper that claimed that their RL-based methods outperformed the state-of-the-art methods for chip macro placement?

according to this new meta-analysis, their results dont replicate and are full of errors. there's also been allegations of fraud 👀

https://cacm.acm.org/research/reevaluating-googles-reinforcement-learning-for-ic-macro-placement