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Xianmin Huang
dblp:405/8425
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Systems, architecture and hardware · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Theoretical computer science
1 paper |
Mathematical optimization · 50% Combinatorics and discrete mathematics · 50% | |
| Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
1 paper |
Memory systems · 62% Emerging computing paradigms · 38% |
Topics — the 5 heaviest of 5, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Memory systems
in-memory computing |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Device-Algorithm Co-Design of Ferroelectric Compute-in-Memory In-Situ Annealer for Combinatorial Optimization Problems · DAC 2025 |
Mathematical optimization
combinatorial optimization |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Device-Algorithm Co-Design of Ferroelectric Compute-in-Memory In-Situ Annealer for Combinatorial Optimization Problems · DAC 2025 |
Combinatorics and discrete mathematics › statistical physics models
ising model |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Device-Algorithm Co-Design of Ferroelectric Compute-in-Memory In-Situ Annealer for Combinatorial Optimization Problems · DAC 2025 |
Emerging computing paradigms › quantum computing
quantum annealing |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | Device-Algorithm Co-Design of Ferroelectric Compute-in-Memory In-Situ Annealer for Combinatorial Optimization Problems · DAC 2025 |
Emerging computing paradigms
quantum computing |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | Device-Algorithm Co-Design of Ferroelectric Compute-in-Memory In-Situ Annealer for Combinatorial Optimization Problems · DAC 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
simulated annealing · 1.7incremental-e transformation · 1.7device-algorithm co-design · 1.7
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Device-Algorithm Co-Design of Ferroelectric Compute-in-Memory In-Situ Annealer for Combinatorial Optimization ProblemsabstractCombinatorial optimization problems (COPs) are crucial in many applications but are computationally demanding. Traditional Ising annealers address COPs by directly converting them into Ising models (known as direct-E transformation) and solving them through iterative annealing. However, these approaches require vector-matrix-vector (VMV) multiplications with a complexity of $O\left(n^{2}\right)$ for Ising energy computation and complex exponential annealing factor calculations during annealing process, thus significantly increasing hardware costs. In this work, we propose a ferroelectric compute-in-memory (CiM) in-situ annealer to overcome aforementioned challenges. The proposed device-algorithm co-design framework consists of (i) a novel transformation method (first to our known) that converts COPs into an innovative incremental-E form, which reduces the complexity of VMV multiplication from $O\left(n^{2}\right)$ to $O(n)$, and approximates exponential annealing factor with a much simplified fractional form; (ii) a double gate ferroelectric FET (DG FeFET)-based CiM crossbar that efficiently computes the in-situ incremental-E form by leveraging the unique structure of DG FeFETs; (iii) a CiM annealer that approaches the solutions of COPs via iterative incremental-E computations within a tunable back gate-based in-situ annealing flow. Evaluation results show that our proposed CiM annealer significantly reduces hardware overhead, reducing energy consumption by $1503 / 1716 \times$ and time cost by $8.08 / 8.15 \times$ in solving 3000 -node Max-Cut problems compared to two state-of-the-art annealers. It also exhibits high solving efficiency, achieving a remarkable average success rate of $98 \%$, whereas other annealers show only $50 \%$ given the same iteration counts. Yu Qian 0002, Xianmin Huang, Thomas Kämpfe, Cheng Zhuo, Xunzhao Yin |
DAC | 2 |