See it to Place it: Evolving Macro Placements with Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2603.28733 · cs.LG · Submitted 2026-03-30 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-03-30

Updated: 2026-10-19

Comments: NeurIPS 2026 camera-ready. 33 pages, 9 figures, 18 tables

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Benchmark — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Vision-language models — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Evolutionary Search — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Foundation Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Vision-Language Models (VLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes

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