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2022
[J19] A GPU-enabled Level Set Method for Mask Optimization
Ziyang Yu, Guojin Chen, Yuzhe Ma, Bei Yu
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 2022.
[J18] PTPT: Physical Design Tool Parameter Tuning via Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization
Hao Geng, Tinghuan Chen, Yuzhe Ma, Binwu Zhu, Bei Yu
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 2022.
[J17] Analog Circuit Yield Optimization via Freeze-Thaw Bayesian Optimization Technique
Xiaodong Wang, Changhao Yan, Yuzhe Ma, Bei Yu, Fan Yang, Dian Zhou, Xuan Zeng
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 2022.
[J16] Adaptive Layout Decomposition with Graph Embedding Neural Networks
Wei Li, Yuzhe Ma, Yibo Lin, Bei Yu
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 2022.
2021
[J15] DAMO: Deep Agile Mask Optimization for Full Chip Scale
Guojin Chen, Wanli Chen, Qi Sun, Yuzhe Ma, Haoyu Yang, Bei Yu
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 2021.
[J14] High-Speed Adder Design Space Exploration via Graph Neural Processes
Hao Geng, Yuzhe Ma, Qi Xu, Jin Miao, Subhendu Roy, Bei Yu
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 2021.
[J13] Neural-ILT 2.0: Migrating ILT to Domain-specific and Multi-task-enabled Neural Network
Bentian Jiang, Lixin Liu, Yuzhe Ma, Bei Yu, Evangeline F. Y. Young
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 2021.
[J12] Deep Learning-Driven Simultaneous Layout Decomposition and Mask Optimization
Wei Zhong, Shuxiang Hu, Yuzhe Ma, Haoyu Yang, Xiuyuan Ma, Bei Yu
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 2021.
[J11] OpenMPL: An Open-Source Layout Decomposer
Wei Li, Yuzhe Ma, Qi Sun, Lu Zhang, Yibo Lin, Iris Hui-Ru Jiang, Bei Yu, David Z. Pan
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 2021.
[J10] Machine Learning for Electronic Design Automation: A Survey
Guyue Huang, Jingbo Hu, Yifan He, Jialong Liu, Mingyuan Ma, Zhaoyang Shen, Juejian Wu, Yuanfan Xu, Hengrui Zhang, Kai Zhong, Xuefei Ning, Yuzhe Ma, Haoyu Yang, Bei Yu, Huazhong Yang, Yu Wang
ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, 2021.
[J09] VLSI Mask Optimization: From Shallow To Deep Learning
Haoyu Yang, Wei Zhong, Yuzhe Ma, Hao Geng, Ran Chen, Wanli Chen, Bei Yu
Integration, the VLSI Journal, 2021.
[C25] BOOM-Explorer: RISC-V BOOM Microarchitecture Design Space Exploration Framework
William J. McCalla Best Paper Award
Chen Bai, Qi Sun, Jianwang Zhai, Yuzhe Ma, Bei Yu, Martin D.F. Wong
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), Nov. 2021.
[C24] DevelSet: Deep Neural Level Set for Instant Mask Optimization
Guojin Chen, Ziyang Yu, Hongduo Liu, Yuzhe Ma, Bei Yu
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), Nov. 2021.
[C23] NeurFill: Migrating Full-Chip CMP Simulators to Neural Networks for Model-Based Dummy Filling Synthesis
Junzhe Cai, Changhao Yan, Yuzhe Ma, Bei Yu, Dian Zhou, Xuan Zeng
ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) Dec, 2021.
[C22] A GPU-enabled Level-Set Method for Mask Optimization
Ziyang Yu, Guojin Chen, Yuzhe Ma, Bei Yu
IEEE/ACM Proceedings Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), Feb. 2021.
[C21] Physical Synthesis for Advanced Neural Network Processors
Invited Paper
Zhuolun He, Peiyu Liao, Siting Liu, Yuzhe Ma, Bei Yu
IEEE/ACM Asian and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC), Jan. 2021.
[C20] TreeNet: Deep Point Cloud Embedding for Routing Tree Construction
Best Paper Award
Wei Li, Yuxiao Qu, Gengjie Chen, Yuzhe Ma, Bei Yu
IEEE/ACM Asian and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC), Jan. 2021.
2020
[J08] Adversarial Perturbation Attacks on ML-based CAD: A Case Study on CNN-based Lithographic Hotspot Detection
Kang Liu, Haoyu Yang, Yuzhe Ma, Benjamin Tan, Bei Yu, Evangeline F. Y. Young, Ramesh Karri, Siddharth Garg
ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, 2020.
[J07] A Unified Framework for Simultaneous Layout Decomposition and Mask Optimization
Yuzhe Ma, Wei Zhong, Shuxiang Hu, Jhih-Rong Gao, Jian Kuang, Jin Miao, Bei Yu
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 2020.
[J06] SRAF Insertion via Supervised Dictionary Learning
Hao Geng, Wei Zhong, Haoyu Yang, Yuzhe Ma, Joydeep Mitra, Bei Yu
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 2020.
[J05] GAN-OPC: Mask Optimization with Lithography-guided Generative Adversarial Nets
Haoyu Yang, Shuhe Li, Zihao Deng, Yuzhe Ma, Bei Yu, and Evangeline F. Y. Young
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 2020.
[C19] Reinforcement Learning Driven Physical Synthesis
Invited Paper
Zhuolun He, Lu Zhang, Peiyu Liao, Yuzhe Ma, Bei Yu
IEEE International Conference on Solid-State and Integrated Circuit Technology (ICSICT), Nov. 2020.
[C18] DAMO: Deep Agile Mask Optimization for Full Chip Scale
Guojin Chen, Wanli Chen, Yuzhe Ma, Haoyu Yang, Bei Yu
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), Nov, 2020.
[C17] Neural-ILT: Migrating ILT to Nerual Networks for Mask Printability and Complexity Co-optimizaton
Bentian Jiang, Lixin Liu, Yuzhe Ma, Hang Zhang, Evangeline F. Y. Young, Bei Yu
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), Nov, 2020.
[C16] Learn to Floorplan through Acquisition of Effective Local Search Heuristics
Zhuolun He, Yuzhe Ma, Lu Zhang, Peiyu Liao, Ngai Wong, Bei Yu, Martin D. F. Wong
IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), Oct. 2020.
[C15] Adaptive Layout Decomposition with Graph Embedding Neural Networks
Wei Li, Jialu Xia, Yuzhe Ma, Jialu Li, Yibo Lin, Bei Yu
ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), July, 2020.
[C14] Deep Learning-Driven Simultaneous Layout Decomposition and Mask Optimization
Wei Zhong, Shuxiang Hu, Yuzhe Ma, Haoyu Yang, Xiuyuan Ma, Bei Yu
ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), July, 2020.
[C13] Understanding Graphs in EDA: From Shallow to Deep Learning
Invited Paper
Yuzhe Ma, Zhuolun He, Wei Li, Lu Zhang, Bei Yu
ACM International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD), Mar. 2020.
[C12] VLSI Mask Optimization: From Shallow To Deep Learning
Invited Paper
Haoyu Yang, Wei Zhong, Yuzhe Ma, Hao Geng, Ran Chen, Wanli Chen, Bei Yu
IEEE/ACM Asian and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC), Jan. 2020.
2019
[J04] Cross-layer Optimization for High Speed Adders: A Pareto Driven Machine Learning Approach
Yuzhe Ma, Subhendu Roy, Jin Miao, Jiamin Chen, Bei Yu
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 2019.
[J03] Layout Hotspot Detection with Feature Tensor Generation and Deep Biased Learning
Haoyu Yang, Jing Su, Yi Zou, Yuzhe Ma, Bei Yu, Evangeline F. Y. Young
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 2019.
[J02] Recent Advances in Convolutional Neural Network Acceleration
Qianru Zhang, Meng Zhang, Tinghuan Chen, Zhifei Sun, Yuzhe Ma, Bei Yu
Neurocomputing, 2019.
[C11] Congestion-aware Global Routing using Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks
Zhonghua Zhou, Ziran Zhu, Jianli Chen, Yuzhe Ma, Bei Yu, Tsung-Yi Ho, Guy Lemieux, Andre Ivano
ACM/IEEE Workshop on Machine Learning for CAD (MLCAD), Sep. 2019.
[C10] CAD Tool Design Space Exploration via Bayesian Optimization
Yuzhe Ma, Ziyang Yu, Bei Yu
ACM/IEEE Workshop on Machine Learning for CAD (MLCAD), Sep. 2019.
[C09] A Unified Approximation Framework for Compressing and Accelerating Deep Neural Networks
Best Student Paper Award
Yuzhe Ma, Ran Chen, Wei Li, Fanhua Shang, Wenjian Yu, Minsik Cho, Bei Yu
IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), Nov. 2019.
[C08] OpenMPL: An Open Source Layout Decomposer
Invited Paper
Wei Li, Yuzhe Ma, Qi Sun, Yibo Lin, Iris Hui-Ru Jiang, Bei Yu, David Z. Pan
IEEE International Conference on ASIC (ASICON), Oct. 2019
[C07] High Performance Graph Convolutional Networks with Applications in Testability Analysis
Yuzhe Ma, Haoxing Ren, Brucek Khailany, Harbinder Sikka, Lijuan Luo, Karthikeyan Natarajan, Bei Yu
ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), June 2019.
[C06] SRAF Insertion via Supervised Dictionary Learning
Best Paper Award Nomination
Hao Geng, Haoyu Yang, Yuzhe Ma, Joydeep Mitra, Bei Yu
IEEE/ACM Asian and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC), Jan. 2019.
2018
[J01] SD-PUF: Spliced Digital Physical Unclonable Function
Jin Miao, Meng Li, Subhendu Roy, Yuzhe Ma and Bei Yu
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 2018.
[C05] GAN-OPC: Mask Optimization with Lithography-guided Generative Adversarial Nets
Haoyu Yang, Shuhe Li, Yuzhe Ma, Bei Yu, and Evangeline F. Y. Young
ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), June 2018.
2017
[C04] A Unified Framework for Simultaneous Layout Decomposition and Mask Optimization
Yuzhe Ma, Jhih-Rong Gao, Jian Kuang, Jin Miao and Bei Yu
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), Nov. 2017.
[C03] Clock-Aware UltraScale FPGA Placement with Machine Learning Routability Prediction
Chak-Wa Pui, Gengjie Chen, Yuzhe Ma, Evangeline F. Y. Young and Bei Yu
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), Nov. 2017.
[C02] Methodologies for Layout Decomposition and Mask Optimization: A Systematic Review
Yuzhe Ma, Xuan Zeng and Bei Yu
IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI-SoC), Oct. 2017.
[C01] A Learning Bridge from Architectural Synthesis to Physical Design for Exploring Power Efficient High-Performance Adders
Subhendu Roy, Yuzhe Ma, Jin Miao and Bei Yu
IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), July 2017.
Patent
[P01] Deep Learning Testability Analysis with Graph Convolutional Networks
Yuzhe Ma, Haoxing Ren, Brucek Khailany, Harbinder Sikka, Lijuan Luo, Karthikeyan Natarajan
US Patent 10657306, May 2020.
Dissertation
[PHD] Methodologies for Efficient Hardware Design Automation and Hardware-Friendly Learning
Yuzhe Ma
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, July 2020.