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Semiconductor processor engineers use design of experiments and often apply zero-order optimization methods such as Bayesian optimization or evolutionary search; the speaker thinks they probably do not use reinforcement learning, although the approaches are similar in idea.
Ekin Dogus Cubuk · Synthesis Superintelligence: from Semiconductors to Superconductors — Periodic Labs’ Liam Fedus and Ekin Dogus Cubuk · 8 Oct 2026
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“And then uh the processor engineers in semiconductor industry will do DOE, design of experiments, and they'll often use some kind of zero order uh like whether it's Bayesian optimization or evolutionary search or I I don't think they use R_L_ but similar idea, yeah.”Play from 1:05:32Report a misattribution
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