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5 papers

cs.CR2025

TrojanLoC: LLM-based Framework for RTL Trojan Localization

Weihua Xiao, Zeng Wang, Minghao Shao +6

Hardware Trojans (HT s) are a persistent threat to integrated circuits, especially when inserted at the register-transfer level (RTL). Existing methods typically first convert the…

cs.CR2025

NetDeTox: Adversarial and Efficient Evasion of Hardware-Security GNNs via RL-LLM Orchestration

Zeng Wang, Minghao Shao, Akashdeep Saha +4

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown promise in hardware security by learning structural motifs from netlist graphs. However, this reliance on motifs makes GNNs vulnerable to ad…

cs.LG2025

VeriDispatcher: Multi-Model Dispatching through Pre-Inference Difficulty Prediction for RTL Generation Optimization

Zeng Wang, Weihua Xiao, Minghao Shao +4

Large Language Models (LLMs) show strong performance in RTL generation, but different models excel on different tasks because of architecture and training differences. Prior work m…

cs.LG2025

SALAD: Systematic Assessment of Machine Unlearning on LLM-Aided Hardware Design

Zeng Wang, Minghao Shao, Rupesh Karn +6

Large Language Models (LLMs) offer transformative capabilities for hardware design automation, particularly in Verilog code generation. However, they also pose significant data sec…

cs.AR2025

VeriContaminated: Assessing LLM-Driven Verilog Coding for Data Contamination

Zeng Wang, Minghao Shao, Jitendra Bhandari +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized code generation, achieving exceptional results on various established benchmarking frameworks. However, concerns about data contami…