Paper Info
Title
Bayesian Optimization Approach For Analog Circuit Synthesis Using Neural Network
Abstract
Bayesian optimization with Gaussian process as surrogate model has been successfully applied to analog circuit synthesis. In the traditional Gaussian process regression model, the kernel functions are defined explicitly. The computational complexity of training is O (N-3), and the computation complexity of prediction is O(N-2), where N is the number of training data. Gaussian process model can also be derived from a weight space view, where the original data are mapped to feature space, and the kernel function is defined as the inner product of nonlinear features. In this paper, we propose a Bayesian optimization approach for analog circuit synthesis using neural network. We use deep neural network to extract good feature representations, and then define Gaussian process using the extracted features. Model averaging method is applied to improve the quality of uncertainty prediction. Compared to Gaussian process model with explicitly defined kernel functions, the neural-network-based Gaussian process model can automatically learn a kernel function from data, which makes it possible to provide more accurate predictions and thus accelerate the follow-up optimization procedure. Also, the neural-network-based model has O(N) training time and constant prediction time. The efficiency of the proposed method has been verified by two real-world analog circuits.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.23919/DATE.2019.8714788
2019 DESIGN, AUTOMATION & TEST IN EUROPE CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION (DATE)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Bayesian optimization, Gaussian process, Neural Network, Analog Circuit Synthesis
Computer science,Parallel computing,Bayesian optimization,Artificial intelligence,Artificial neural network
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1530-1591
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shuhan Zhang1106.28
Wenlong Lyu2152.60
Fan Yang310122.74
Changhao Yan46811.28
Dian Zhou526056.14
Xuan Zeng640875.96