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by razinemg 2041 days ago
great job, can you give me some resources to get in touch with the field of automated design because I want really to see the potential of using technics such as AI and DL for creation or optimization tasks.
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Thanks!

This is a good question; AI and DL has been used for a little bit in physical design (in a scalable way starting roughly the past few years or so). The paper has some references at the top of page 26), but [0] and [1] have decent overviews as well!

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[0] https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/nanoph/9/5/article-p...

[1] https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsphotonics.7b01377 (an arXiv link is found here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1710.04724.pdf)

thanx lot. because I get fascinated by the idea of generative design and how we can use it to create a very optimized product using only computational methods. I am doing a master's degree in AI and I want to involve more in this area.
For sure! Another thing to note is that, at the moment, the usual ML/AI approaches fall very short of the classical optimization methods, so there is still plenty of work to be done.

For example, classical optimization methods can approximately optimize a design with ~10 million parameters in a few hours on a decent machine, while the current AI state of the art (notably using DL and some GANs) can only optimize designs with 10-100s of parameters, maybe 1000s and take many days to train.