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most citedThe Dawn of AI-Native EDA: Opportunities and Challenges of Large Circuit Models

21 citations · 47 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cs.AR2026

CODA: Algorithm-Hardware Co-design for Edge Video Diffusion via NMP-Enabled Compute-Cache Operator Disaggregation

Yuanpeng Zhang, YuXuan Wu, Yitong Xiao +6

Deploying Video Diffusion Models (VDMs) on edge devices is appealing for localized and privacy-preserving generation, but their iterative Transformer-based denoising remains too sl…

cs.AR2026

Isolation-aware Scheduling Framework for DNN-based End-to-End Autonomous Driving System on Tile-based Accelerators

Chenguang Zhang, Yuanpeng Zhang, Chenhao Xue +3

Level-4+ autonomous driving systems (ADS) must run dozens of heterogeneous deep neural networks (DNNs) as end-to-end (E2E) pipelines under a strict latency constraint (<=100 ms), e…

cs.AR2026

AccelCIM: Systematic Dataflow Exploration for SRAM Compute-in-Memory Accelerator

Chenhao Xue, Yukun Wang, An Guo +11

SRAM-based compute-in-memory (CIM) offers high computational density and energy efficiency for deep neural network (DNN) accelerators, but its limited capacity causes on/off-chip d…

cs.AR2026

A Full-Stack Performance Evaluation Infrastructure for 3D-DRAM-based LLM Accelerators

Cong Li, Chenhao Xue, Yi Ren +11

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit memory-intensive behavior during decoding, making it a key bottleneck in LLM inference. To accelerate decoding execution, hybrid-bonding-based…

cs.AR2026

Hardware-Software Co-design for 3D-DRAM-based LLM Serving Accelerator

Cong Li, Yihan Yin, Chenhao Xue +7

Large language models (LLMs) have been widely deployed for online generative services, where numerous LLM instances jointly handle workloads with fluctuating request arrival rates…

cs.AR2025

Orthrus: Dual-Loop Automated Framework for System-Technology Co-Optimization

Yi Ren, Baokang Peng, Chenhao Xue +6

With the diminishing return from Moore's Law, system-technology co-optimization (STCO) has emerged as a promising approach to sustain the scaling trends in the VLSI industry. By br…

cs.LG2025

MMCircuitEval: A Comprehensive Multimodal Circuit-Focused Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs

Chenchen Zhao, Zhengyuan Shi, Xiangyu Wen +19

The emergence of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) presents promising opportunities for automation and enhancement in Electronic Design Automation (EDA). However, comprehens…

cs.AR2025

AC-Refiner: Efficient Arithmetic Circuit Optimization Using Conditional Diffusion Models

Chenhao Xue, Kezhi Li, Jiaxing Zhang +7

Arithmetic circuits, such as adders and multipliers, are fundamental components of digital systems, directly impacting the performance, power efficiency, and area footprint. Howeve…

cs.AR2025

ForgeEDA: A Comprehensive Multimodal Dataset for Advancing EDA

Zhengyuan Shi, Zeju Li, Chengyu Ma +19

We introduce ForgeEDA, an open-source comprehensive circuit dataset across various categories. ForgeEDA includes diverse circuit representations such as Register Transfer Level (RT…

cs.AR2025

DiffuSE: Cross-Layer Design Space Exploration of DNN Accelerator via Diffusion-Driven Optimization

Yi Ren, Chenhao Xue, Jiaxing Zhang +5

The proliferation of deep learning accelerators calls for efficient and cost-effective hardware design solutions, where parameterized modular hardware generator and electronic desi…

cs.AR2025

DOMAC: Differentiable Optimization for High-Speed Multipliers and Multiply-Accumulators

Chenhao Xue, Yi Ren, Jinwei Zhou +6

Multipliers and multiply-accumulators (MACs) are fundamental building blocks for compute-intensive applications such as artificial intelligence. With the diminishing returns of Moo…

cs.AR2024

Theseus: Exploring Efficient Wafer-Scale Chip Design for Large Language Models

Jingchen Zhu, Chenhao Xue, Yiqi Chen +13

The emergence of the large language model~(LLM) poses an exponential growth of demand for computation throughput, memory capacity, and communication bandwidth. Such a demand growth…

cs.AR2024★ 21 cited

The Dawn of AI-Native EDA: Opportunities and Challenges of Large Circuit Models

Lei Chen, Yiqi Chen, Zhufei Chu +36

Within the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) domain, AI-driven solutions have emerged as formidable tools, yet they typically augment rather than redefine existing methodologies.…

cs.CL2024★ 13 cited

LLM Inference Unveiled: Survey and Roofline Model Insights

Zhihang Yuan, Yuzhang Shang, Yang Zhou +11

The field of efficient Large Language Model (LLM) inference is rapidly evolving, presenting a unique blend of opportunities and challenges. Although the field has expanded and is v…

cs.CV2022★ 11 cited

Latency-aware Spatial-wise Dynamic Networks

Yizeng Han, Zhihang Yuan, Yifan Pu +4

Spatial-wise dynamic convolution has become a promising approach to improving the inference efficiency of deep networks. By allocating more computation to the most informative pixe…

cs.CV2021★ 1 cited

PTQ4ViT: Post-training quantization for vision transformers with twin uniform quantization

Zhihang Yuan, Chenhao Xue, Yiqi Chen +2

Quantization is one of the most effective methods to compress neural networks, which has achieved great success on convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Recently, vision transforme…

cs.CV2021★ 1 cited

PTQ-SL: Exploring the Sub-layerwise Post-training Quantization

Zhihang Yuan, Yiqi Chen, Chenhao Xue +3

Network quantization is a powerful technique to compress convolutional neural networks. The quantization granularity determines how to share the scaling factors in weights, which a…