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Tensor Computation: A New Framework for High-Dimensional Problems in EDA
Many critical EDA problems suffer from the curse of dimensionality, i.e. the
very fast-scaling computational burden produced by large number of parameters
and/or unknown variables. This phenomenon may be caused by multiple spatial or
temporal factors (e.g. 3-D field solvers discretizations and multi-rate circuit
simulation), nonlinearity of devices and circuits, large number of design or
optimization parameters (e.g. full-chip routing/placement and circuit sizing),
or extensive process variations (e.g. variability/reliability analysis and
design for manufacturability). The computational challenges generated by such
high dimensional problems are generally hard to handle efficiently with
traditional EDA core algorithms that are based on matrix and vector
computation. This paper presents "tensor computation" as an alternative general
framework for the development of efficient EDA algorithms and tools. A tensor
is a high-dimensional generalization of a matrix and a vector, and is a natural
choice for both storing and solving efficiently high-dimensional EDA problems.
This paper gives a basic tutorial on tensors, demonstrates some recent examples
of EDA applications (e.g., nonlinear circuit modeling and high-dimensional
uncertainty quantification), and suggests further open EDA problems where the
use of tensor computation could be of advantage.Comment: 14 figures. Accepted by IEEE Trans. CAD of Integrated Circuits and
System
Tensor Ring Decomposition with Rank Minimization on Latent Space: An Efficient Approach for Tensor Completion
In tensor completion tasks, the traditional low-rank tensor decomposition
models suffer from the laborious model selection problem due to their high
model sensitivity. In particular, for tensor ring (TR) decomposition, the
number of model possibilities grows exponentially with the tensor order, which
makes it rather challenging to find the optimal TR decomposition. In this
paper, by exploiting the low-rank structure of the TR latent space, we propose
a novel tensor completion method which is robust to model selection. In
contrast to imposing the low-rank constraint on the data space, we introduce
nuclear norm regularization on the latent TR factors, resulting in the
optimization step using singular value decomposition (SVD) being performed at a
much smaller scale. By leveraging the alternating direction method of
multipliers (ADMM) scheme, the latent TR factors with optimal rank and the
recovered tensor can be obtained simultaneously. Our proposed algorithm is
shown to effectively alleviate the burden of TR-rank selection, thereby greatly
reducing the computational cost. The extensive experimental results on both
synthetic and real-world data demonstrate the superior performance and
efficiency of the proposed approach against the state-of-the-art algorithms
A literature survey of low-rank tensor approximation techniques
During the last years, low-rank tensor approximation has been established as
a new tool in scientific computing to address large-scale linear and
multilinear algebra problems, which would be intractable by classical
techniques. This survey attempts to give a literature overview of current
developments in this area, with an emphasis on function-related tensors
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