Patent ID: 11960805
Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
obtaining data that specifies discrete input values of one or more input characteristics of an integrated circuit (IC);
generating an initial latent representation of the one or more input characteristics from the received data, wherein the initial latent representation is in a latent space;
generating an improved latent representation from the initial latent representation by performing one or more improvement steps in the latent space, wherein generating the improved latent representation comprises, at each of one or more improvement steps:
for each of one or more output characteristics of the IC that measure a performance of the IC, processing a current latent representation using a regressor model that corresponds to the output characteristic to generate a current predicted value of the output characteristic as of the improvement step; and
determining, using a continuous optimization technique, an update to the current latent representation that improves the current predicted values of the one or more output characteristics; and

generating data that specifies final discrete input values of the one or more input characteristics of the IC from the improved latent representation.