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Looks like he aligned himself with the wrong folks here. He is a system builder at heart but not an expert in chip design or EDA. And also not really an ML researcher. Some would s…

The court case provides more details. Looks like the junior researchers and Jeff Dean teamed up and bullied Chatterjee and his team to prevent the fraud from being exposed. IIRC th…

Markov’s paper also has links to Google papers from two different sets of authors that shows minimal advantage of pretraining. And given the small number of benchmarks using a pret…

In this case there were credible claims of fraud from Google insiders. See my comment above.

As Markov claims Nature did not follow their own policy. Since Google’s results are only on their designs, no one can replicate them. Nature is single blind, so they probably didn’…

Peer review is not designed to combat fraud.

Additional context: Jeff Dean has been accused of fraud and misconduct in AlphaChip. https://regmedia.co.uk/2023/03/26/satrajit_vs_google.pdf

Good question. I thought the tpus were a way for Google to apply pricing pressure to nvidia by having an alternative. They are not particularly better (it’s hard to get utilization…

Thanks.

Interesting == Suspicious? I think this is a big red flag to those in the know.

Sorry. I meant obscure relative to the large space of combinatorial optimization problems not just chip design. Most design houses don’t write their own macro placers but customize…

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Doesn’t look like it. In fact the original paper claimed that their RL method could be used for all sorts of combinatorial optimization problems. Yet they chose an obscure problem …

Vindicated indeed. The senior researcher and others on the project were bullied for raising concerns of fraud by the two researchers [1]. They filed a lawsuit against Google that h…