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Publications (11)

cs.CL2026

Disagreement as Data: Reasoning Trace Analytics in Multi-Agent Systems

Elham Tajik, Conrad Borchers, Bahar Shahrokhian +4

Learning analytics researchers often analyze qualitative student data such as coded annotations or interview transcripts to understand learning processes. With the rise of generati…

cs.CL2026

Temperature and Persona Shape LLM Agent Consensus With Minimal Accuracy Gains in Qualitative Coding

Conrad Borchers, Bahar Shahrokhian, Francesco Balzan +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) enable new possibilities for qualitative research at scale, including annotation and qualitative coding of educational data. While LLM-based multi-agen…

cs.AI2025

Hey AI, Generate Me a Hardware Code! Agentic AI-based Hardware Design & Verification

Deepak Narayan Gadde, Keerthan Kopparam Radhakrishna, Vaisakh Naduvodi Viswambharan +4

Modern Integrated Circuits (ICs) are becoming increasingly complex, and so is their development process. Hardware design verification entails a methodical and disciplined approach…

cs.SE2024

A Semi-Formal Verification Methodology for Efficient Configuration Coverage of Highly Configurable Digital Designs

Aman Kumar, Sebastian Simon

Nowadays, a majority of System-on-Chips (SoCs) make use of Intellectual Property (IP) in order to shorten development cycles. When such IPs are developed, one of the main focuses l…

cs.LO2019

Symbolic QED Pre-silicon Verification for Automotive Microcontroller Cores: Industrial Case Study

Eshan Singh, Keerthikumara Devarajegowda, Sebastian Simon +8

We present an industrial case study that demonstrates the practicality and effectiveness of Symbolic Quick Error Detection (Symbolic QED) in detecting logic design flaws (logic bug…

cs.AI2024

Efficient Stimuli Generation using Reinforcement Learning in Design Verification

Deepak Narayan Gadde, Thomas Nalapat, Aman Kumar +3

The increasing design complexity of System-on-Chips (SoCs) has led to significant verification challenges, particularly in meeting coverage targets within a timely manner. At prese…

cs.AR2024

FuzzWiz -- Fuzzing Framework for Efficient Hardware Coverage

Deepak Narayan Gadde, Aman Kumar, Djones Lettnin +1

Ever-increasing design complexity of System-on-Chips (SoCs) led to significant verification challenges. Unlike software, bugs in hardware design are vigorous and eternal i.e., once…

cs.SE2024

A Methodology for Evaluating RAG Systems: A Case Study On Configuration Dependency Validation

Sebastian Simon, Alina Mailach, Johannes Dorn +1

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is an umbrella of different components, design decisions, and domain-specific adaptations to enhance the capabilities of large language models…

cs.CR2022

Minimizing Information Leakage under Padding Constraints

Sebastian Simon, Cezara Petrui, Carlos Pinzón +1

An attacker can gain information of a user by analyzing its network traffic. The size of transferred data leaks information about the file being transferred or the service being us…

cs.LG2024

Improving Simulation Regression Efficiency using a Machine Learning-based Method in Design Verification

Deepak Narayan Gadde, Sebastian Simon, Djones Lettnin +1

The verification throughput is becoming a major challenge bottleneck, since the complexity and size of SoC designs are still ever increasing. Simply adding more CPU cores and runni…

cs.SE2025

Themes of Building LLM-based Applications for Production: A Practitioner's View

Alina Mailach, Sebastian Simon, Johannes Dorn +1

Background: Large language models (LLMs) have become a paramount interest of researchers and practitioners alike, yet a comprehensive overview of key considerations for those devel…