AAAI 2026 Main Conference

January 22, 2026

Singapore, Singapore

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Macro placement is a crucial subproblem of chip design, focusing on determining the locations of numerous macros while minimizing multiple metrics. In recent years, reinforcement learning (RL) has gained traction as a favorable technique to improve placement performance. However, existing RL-based placers ignore the orientation of macros, resulting in the state space constrained to two-dimensional discrete coordinates and greatly restricting the exploration opportunities. To address this issue, we propose a novel macro placement method, RSPlace, which guides the bidirectional expansion of the global search tree to offer the RL agent more exploration opportunities, incorporating rotation into the RL-based macro placement solution for the first time. RSPlace intelligently determines the optimal rotation angle to maximize placement benefits by leveraging rotation sensing and placement perturbations. Extensive experiments demonstrate that taking the macro orientation into account substantially broadens the feasible locations and effectively reduces the half-perimeter wirelength (HPWL), thus ensuring that our approach significantly improves the optimization effect compared to the state-of-the-art method.

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