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

21 citations · 22 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cs.AR2026

LevelSyn: Physical-Aware Logic Synthesis via Level-Asynchronous Graph Neural Networks

Jingyi Zhou, Zhengyuan Shi, Ziyang Zheng +1

As integrated circuit technology scales into the nanometer regime, the traditional disconnect between logic synthesis and physical design has led to significant PPA (Power, Perform…

cs.LG2026

Beyond Flat Netlist: Hierarchical Graph Representation Learning for Scalable Analysis of Sequential Circuits

Jingyi Zhou, Zhengyuan Shi, Jiaying Zhu +2

Circuit Representation Learning (CRL) offers a powerful paradigm to guide and optimize core Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tasks, but its practical adoption is hindered by the…

cs.IR2026

HMARS: A Hierarchical Multi-Agent Memory System for Long-Context Reasoning

Zeju Li, Ziyang Zheng, Yizhou Zhou +1

Long-context reasoning requires models to access, retrieve, and integrate evidence scattered across documents, dialogues, and accumulated interaction histories. Standard retrieval-…

cs.LG2026

Context Distillation as Latent Memory Management

Ziyang Zheng, Zeju Li, Xiangyu Wen +5

Context distillation compresses contextual information into model parameters, yet existing methods often ignore how multiple distilled latent memories should be stored, retrieved,…

cs.LG2025

DynamicRTL: RTL Representation Learning for Dynamic Circuit Behavior

Ruiyang Ma, Yunhao Zhou, Yipeng Wang +9

There is a growing body of work on using Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to learn representations of circuits, focusing primarily on their static characteristics. However, these model…

cs.LG2025

Alignment Unlocks Complementarity: A Framework for Multiview Circuit Representation Learning

Zhengyuan Shi, Jingxin Wang, Wentao Jiang +5

Multiview learning on Boolean circuits holds immense promise, as different graph-based representations offer complementary structural and semantic information. However, the vast st…

cs.AI2025

TRACE: Learning to Compute on Circuit Graphs

Ziyang Zheng, Jiaying Zhu, Jingyi Zhou +1

Learning to compute, the ability to model the functional behavior of a circuit graph, is a fundamental challenge for graph representation learning. Yet, the dominant paradigm is ar…

cs.AI2025

Circuit-Aware SAT Solving: Guiding CDCL via Conditional Probabilities

Jiaying Zhu, Ziyang Zheng, Zhengyuan Shi +2

Circuit Satisfiability (CSAT) plays a pivotal role in Electronic Design Automation. The standard workflow for solving CSAT problems converts circuits into Conjunctive Normal Form (…

cs.AI2025

Making Slow Thinking Faster: Compressing LLM Chain-of-Thought via Step Entropy

Zeju Li, Jianyuan Zhong, Ziyang Zheng +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) using Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting excel at complex reasoning but generate verbose thought processes with considerable redundancy, leading to incre…

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.AI2025

Functional Matching of Logic Subgraphs: Beyond Structural Isomorphism

Ziyang Zheng, Kezhi Li, Zhengyuan Shi +1

Subgraph matching in logic circuits is foundational for numerous Electronic Design Automation (EDA) applications, including datapath optimization, arithmetic verification, and hard…

cs.LG2025

DeepCell: Self-Supervised Multiview Fusion for Circuit Representation Learning

Zhengyuan Shi, Chengyu Ma, Ziyang Zheng +7

We introduce DeepCell, a novel circuit representation learning framework that effectively integrates multiview information from both And-Inverter Graphs (AIGs) and Post-Mapping (PM…

cs.LG2025

DeepGate4: Efficient and Effective Representation Learning for Circuit Design at Scale

Ziyang Zheng, Shan Huang, Jianyuan Zhong +4

Circuit representation learning has become pivotal in electronic design automation, enabling critical tasks such as testability analysis, logic reasoning, power estimation, and SAT…

cs.AR2024

DeepSeq2: Enhanced Sequential Circuit Learning with Disentangled Representations

Sadaf Khan, Zhengyuan Shi, Ziyang Zheng +2

Circuit representation learning is increasingly pivotal in Electronic Design Automation (EDA), serving various downstream tasks with enhanced model efficiency and accuracy. One not…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

DeepGate3: Towards Scalable Circuit Representation Learning

Zhengyuan Shi, Ziyang Zheng, Sadaf Khan +3

Circuit representation learning has shown promising results in advancing the field of Electronic Design Automation (EDA). Existing models, such as DeepGate Family, primarily utiliz…

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.LG2023

Non-Cross Diffusion for Semantic Consistency

Ziyang Zheng, Ruiyuan Gao, Qiang Xu

In diffusion models, deviations from a straight generative flow are a common issue, resulting in semantic inconsistencies and suboptimal generations. To address this challenge, we…