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Wanbo Zhang
dblp:391/6908
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2ranked-venue papers
0as first author
2since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 2 · 2 since 2021
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| Theoretical computer science
1 paper |
Mathematical optimization · 100% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mathematical optimization
instance generation |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | MILP-StuDio: MILP Instance Generation via Block Structure Decomposition · NeurIPS 2024 |
Mathematical optimization › discrete optimization
mixed integer linear programming |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | MILP-StuDio: MILP Instance Generation via Block Structure Decomposition · NeurIPS 2024 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
learning-based solvers · 0.8block structure decomposition · 0.8
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | High-Performance Arithmetic Circuit Optimization via Differentiable Architecture SearchabstractArithmetic circuit optimization remains a fundamental challenge in modern integrated circuit design. Recent advances have cast this problem within the Learning to Optimize (L2O) paradigm, where intelligent agents autonomously explore high-performance design spaces with encouraging results. However, existing approaches predominantly target coarse-grained architectural configurations, while the crucial interconnect optimization stage is often relegated to oversimplified proxy models or a heuristic approach. This disconnect undermines design quality, leading to suboptimal solutions in the circuit topology search space. To bridge this gap, we present **Arith-DAS**, a **D**ifferentiable **A**rchitecture **S**earch framework for **Arith**metic circuits. To the best of our knowledge, **Arith-DAS** is the first to formulate interconnect optimization within arithmetic circuits as a differentiable edge prediction problem over a multi-relational directed acyclic graph, enabling fine-grained, proxy-free optimization at the interconnection level. We evaluate **Arith-DAS** on a suite of representative arithmetic circuits, including multipliers and multiply-accumulate units. Experiments show substantial improvements over state-of-the-art L2O and conventional methods, achieving up to $\textbf{27.05}$% gain in hypervolume of area-delay Pareto front, a standard metric for evaluating multi-objective optimization performance. Moreover, integrating our optimized arithmetic units into large-scale AI accelerators yields up to $\textbf{6.59}$% delay reduction, demonstrating both scalability and real-world applicability. Xilin Xia, Jie Wang 0005, Wanbo Zhang, Mingxuan Yuan, Jianye Hao, Feng Wu 0001 |
NeurIPS | 3 |
| 2024 | MILP-StuDio: MILP Instance Generation via Block Structure DecompositionabstractMixed-integer linear programming (MILP) is one of the most popular mathematical formulations with numerous applications. In practice, improving the performance of MILP solvers often requires a large amount of high-quality data, which can be challenging to collect. Researchers thus turn to generation techniques to generate additional MILP instances. However, existing approaches do not take into account specific block structures—which are closely related to the problem formulations—in the constraint coefficient matrices (CCMs) of MILPs. Consequently, they are prone to generate computationally trivial or infeasible instances due to the disruptions of block structures and thus problem formulations. To address this challenge, we propose a novel MILP generation framework, called Block Structure Decomposition (MILP-StuDio), to generate high-quality instances by preserving the block structures. Specifically, MILP-StuDio begins by identifying the blocks in CCMs and decomposing the instances into block units, which serve as the building blocks of MILP instances. We then design three operators to construct new instances by removing, substituting, and appending block units in the original instances, enabling us to generate instances with flexible sizes. An appealing feature of MILP-StuDio is its strong ability to preserve the feasibility and computational hardness of the generated instances. Experiments on the commonly-used benchmarks demonstrate that using instances generated by MILP-StuDio is able to significantly reduce over 10% of the solving time for learning-based solvers. Haoyang Liu 0002, Jie Wang 0005, Wanbo Zhang, Zijie Geng, Yufei Kuang, Xijun Li, Bin Li 0025, Yongdong Zhang 0001, Feng Wu 0001 |
NeurIPS | 3 |