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8 papers

cs.AR2026

Agentic Hardware Design as Repository-Level Code Evolution

Cunxi Yu, Chenhui Deng, Nathaniel Pinckney +1

We present HORIZON, a self-evolving agent framework that treats hardware design as repository-level code evolution. A Markdown harness is compiled into a project pack containing do…

cs.CL2026

Nemotron 3 Ultra: Open, Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Hybrid Mamba-Transformer Model for Agentic Reasoning

NVIDIA, :, Aaron Blakeman +571

We introduce Nemotron 3 Ultra, a 550 billion total and 55 billion active parameter Mixture-of-Experts Hybrid Mamba-Attention language model. We pre-trained Nemotron 3 Ultra on 20 t…

cs.AI2026

Trace2Skill: Verifier-Guided Skill Evolution for Long-Context EDA Agents

Zijian Du, Nathaniel Pinckney

Complex Verilog Design Problems (CVDP) challenge hardware LLM agents because solving them requires localizing verifier-relevant RTL, testbenches, include paths, and build dependenc…

cs.LG2026

Nemotron 3 Super: Open, Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Hybrid Mamba-Transformer Model for Agentic Reasoning

NVIDIA, :, Aakshita Chandiramani +544

We describe the pre-training, post-training, and quantization of Nemotron 3 Super, a 120 billion (active 12 billion) parameter hybrid Mamba-Attention Mixture-of-Experts model. Nemo…

cs.AR2026

ACE-RTL: When Agentic Context Evolution Meets RTL-Specialized LLMs

Chenhui Deng, Zhongzhi Yu, Guan-Ting Liu +3

Recent advances in LLMs have sparked growing interest in applying them to hardware design automation, particularly for accurate RTL code generation. Prior efforts follow two largel…

cs.AR2026

GRPO with State Mutations: Improving LLM-Based Hardware Test Plan Generation

Dimple Vijay Kochar, Nathaniel Pinckney, Guan-Ting Liu +4

RTL design often relies heavily on ad-hoc testbench creation early in the design cycle. While large language models (LLMs) show promise for RTL code generation, their ability to re…