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20232026
most citedChipNeMo: Domain-Adapted LLMs for Chip Design

28 citations · 32 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.HC2026

NotebookRAG: Retrieving Multiple Notebooks to Augment the Generation of EDA Notebooks for Crowd-Wisdom

Yi Shan, Yixuan He, Zekai Shao +2

High-quality exploratory data analysis (EDA) is essential in the data science pipeline, but remains highly dependent on analysts' expertise and effort. While recent LLM-based appro…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

NVIDIA Nemotron 3: Efficient and Open Intelligence

NVIDIA, :, Aaron Blakeman +356

We introduce the Nemotron 3 family of models - Nano, Super, and Ultra. These models deliver strong agentic, reasoning, and conversational capabilities. The Nemotron 3 family uses a…

cs.CL2025

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

NVIDIA, :, Aaron Blakeman +311

We present Nemotron 3 Nano 30B-A3B, a Mixture-of-Experts hybrid Mamba-Transformer language model. Nemotron 3 Nano was pretrained on 25 trillion text tokens, including more than 3 t…

cs.CL2025

BLASST: Dynamic BLocked Attention Sparsity via Softmax Thresholding

Jiayi Yuan, Cameron Shinn, Kai Xu +19

The growing demand for long-context inference capabilities in Large Language Models (LLMs) has intensified the computational and memory bottlenecks inherent to the self-attention m…

cs.SI2025

Enhancing Fake-News Detection with Node-Level Topological Features

Kaiyuan Xu

In recent years, the proliferation of misinformation and fake news has posed serious threats to individuals and society, spurring intense research into automated detection methods.…

cs.LG2025

Adaptive Spatial Goodness Encoding: Advancing and Scaling Forward-Forward Learning Without Backpropagation

Qingchun Gong, Robert Bogdan Staszewski, Kai Xu

The Forward-Forward (FF) algorithm offers a promising alternative to backpropagation (BP). Despite advancements in recent FF-based extensions, which have enhanced the original algo…

eess.AS2025

DMOSpeech 2: Reinforcement Learning for Duration Prediction in Metric-Optimized Speech Synthesis

Yinghao Aaron Li, Xilin Jiang, Fei Tao +4

Diffusion-based text-to-speech (TTS) systems have made remarkable progress in zero-shot speech synthesis, yet optimizing all components for perceptual metrics remains challenging.…

cs.CR2025

Unlearning-Enhanced Website Fingerprinting Attack: Against Backdoor Poisoning in Anonymous Networks

Yali Yuan, Kai Xu, Ruolin Ma +1

Website Fingerprinting (WF) is an effective tool for regulating and governing the dark web. However, its performance can be significantly degraded by backdoor poisoning attacks in…

cs.CV2025

Generative AI for Urban Planning: Synthesizing Satellite Imagery via Diffusion Models

Qingyi Wang, Yuebing Liang, Yunhan Zheng +3

Generative AI offers new opportunities for automating urban planning by creating site-specific urban layouts and enabling flexible design exploration. However, existing approaches…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

Web-Bench: A LLM Code Benchmark Based on Web Standards and Frameworks

Kai Xu, YiWei Mao, XinYi Guan +1

The application of large language models (LLMs) in the field of coding is evolving rapidly: from code assistants, to autonomous coding agents, and then to generating complete proje…

cs.LG2024

Recurrent Aggregators in Neural Algorithmic Reasoning

Kaijia Xu, Petar Veličković

Neural algorithmic reasoning (NAR) is an emerging field that seeks to design neural networks that mimic classical algorithmic computations. Today, graph neural networks (GNNs) are…

cs.HC2024★ 2 cited

vitaLITy 2: Reviewing Academic Literature Using Large Language Models

Hongye An, Arpit Narechania, Emily Wall +1

Academic literature reviews have traditionally relied on techniques such as keyword searches and accumulation of relevant back-references, using databases like Google Scholar or IE…

cs.LG2024

Improving Reward-Conditioned Policies for Multi-Armed Bandits using Normalized Weight Functions

Kai Xu, Farid Tajaddodianfar, Ben Allison

Recently proposed reward-conditioned policies (RCPs) offer an appealing alternative in reinforcement learning. Compared with policy gradient methods, policy learning in RCPs is sim…

cs.CL2024

GliDe with a CaPE: A Low-Hassle Method to Accelerate Speculative Decoding

Cunxiao Du, Jing Jiang, Xu Yuanchen +8

Speculative decoding is a relatively new decoding framework that leverages small and efficient draft models to reduce the latency of LLMs. In this study, we introduce GliDe and CaP…

cs.CL2023★ 28 cited

ChipNeMo: Domain-Adapted LLMs for Chip Design

Mingjie Liu, Teodor-Dumitru Ene, Robert Kirby +39

ChipNeMo aims to explore the applications of large language models (LLMs) for industrial chip design. Instead of directly deploying off-the-shelf commercial or open-source LLMs, we…