Chip Design ML papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Chip Design ML went from 28 papers in 2023 to 64 in 2026, roughly 2.3x in three years.
• NeurIPS publishes the most Chip Design ML work: 83 papers from 2023 to 2026, 46% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Diffusion Models: papers tagged with both rose from 0 in 2023 to 9 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Hardware and Compilers, it ranks #2 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Edge Inference, is up 4.0x versus 2.3x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026ChiP-STAR: Spatial-Topological Attention for Pre-trained Generative Chip Routing
• ICML 2026Order Matters: Unveiling the Hidden Impact of Macro Placement Sequences via Proxy-Guided LLM Evolution
• ICLR 2026How Muon’s Spectral Design Benefits Generalization: A Study on Imbalanced Data
• CVPR 2026PSDesigner Automated Graphic Design with a Human-Like Creative Workflow
• NeurIPS 2025MIHC: Multi-View Interpretable Hypergraph Neural Networks with Information Bottleneck for Chip Congestion Prediction
• ICML 2025Probabilistic Factorial Experimental Design for Combinatorial Interventions
• ICLR 2025LaMPlace: Learning to Optimize Cross-Stage Metrics in Macro Placement
• CVPR 2025From Elements to Design: A Layered Approach for Automatic Graphic Design Composition
• NeurIPS 2024AFBench: A Large-scale Benchmark for Airfoil Design
• ICML 2024A Circuit Domain Generalization Framework for Efficient Logic Synthesis in Chip Design
• ICLR 2024CircuitNet 2.0: An Advanced Dataset for Promoting Machine Learning Innovations in Realistic Chip Design Environment
• CVPR 2024Discontinuity-preserving Normal Integration with Auxiliary Edges
• NeurIPS 2023Circuit as Set of Points
• ICML 2023AbODE: Ab initio antibody design using conjoined ODEs
• ICLR 2023Neural Design for Genetic Perturbation Experiments
• CVPR 2023Visibility Constrained Wide-Band Illumination Spectrum Design for Seeing-in-the-Dark
• NeurIPS 2026DiffCool: Label-Free Synthesis of Chip-Tailored Heat Sinks via Thermal-Aware Diffusion
• ICML 2026Axiomatic Atlas: A Prescriptive Framework for Neural Architecture Design
• ICLR 2026Topology Matters in RTL Circuit Representation Learning
• CVPR 2026FEAT Fashion Editing and Try-On from Any Design

All Chip Design ML papers

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1. ICML 2024A Circuit Domain Generalization Framework for Efficient Logic Synthesis in Chip Design
2. ICML 2024Bayesian Design Principles for Offline-to-Online Reinforcement Learning
3. ICML 2024CarbonNovo: Joint Design of Protein Structure and Sequence Using a Unified Energy-based Model
4. ICML 2024Differentiable Combinatorial Scheduling at Scale
5. ICML 2024Environment Design for Inverse Reinforcement Learning
6. ICML 2024Evolution of Heuristics: Towards Efficient Automatic Algorithm Design Using Large Language Model
7. ICML 2024GeoAB: Towards Realistic Antibody Design and Reliable Affinity Maturation
8. ICML 2024ILILT: Implicit Learning of Inverse Lithography Technologies
9. ICML 2024Integrated Hardware Architecture and Device Placement Search
10. ICML 2024KernelWarehouse: Rethinking the Design of Dynamic Convolution
11. ICML 2024Mechanistic Design and Scaling of Hybrid Architectures
12. ICML 2024MolCRAFT: Structure-Based Drug Design in Continuous Parameter Space
13. ICML 2024Nesting Particle Filters for Experimental Design in Dynamical Systems
14. ICML 2024PASOA- PArticle baSed Bayesian Optimal Adaptive design
15. ICML 2024Position: Building Guardrails for Large Language Models Requires Systematic Design
16. ICML 2024Prismatic VLMs: Investigating the Design Space of Visually-Conditioned Language Models
17. ICML 2024Reinforcement Learning within Tree Search for Fast Macro Placement
18. ICML 2024RNAFlow: RNA Structure & Sequence Design via Inverse Folding-Based Flow Matching
19. ICML 2024Structure-based drug design by denoising voxel grids
20. ICML 2024SurfPro: Functional Protein Design Based on Continuous Surface

FAQ

How many Chip Design ML papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

179 in total: 28 in 2023, 43 in 2024, 44 in 2025, 64 in 2026.

How many Chip Design ML papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 34 Chip Design ML papers, versus 20 the year before.

How many Chip Design ML papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 9 Chip Design ML papers, versus 9 the year before.

How many Chip Design ML papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 18 Chip Design ML papers, versus 9 the year before.

How many Chip Design ML papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 3 Chip Design ML papers, versus 6 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Chip Design ML papers?

NeurIPS, with 83 papers from 2023 to 2026.