10 papers
ROSUM-MCTS: Monte Carlo Tree Search-Inspired HDL Code Summarization with Structural Rewards
Prashanth Vijayaraghavan, Charles Mackin, Luyao Shi +6
Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in code summarization, yet their effectiveness for Hardware Description Languages (HDLs) like VHDL and Verilog remains underexplored…
StepPRM-RTL: Stepwise Process-Reward Guided LLM Fine-Tuning for Enhanced RTL Synthesis
Prashanth Vijayaraghavan, Apoorva Nitsure, Luyao Shi +2
Automatic generation of RTL code for digital hardware designs remains challenging due to long-horizon reasoning, multi-step dependencies, and strict correctness constraints in Veri…
SYMDIREC: A Neuro-Symbolic Divide-Retrieve-Conquer Framework for Enhanced RTL Synthesis and Summarization
Prashanth Vijayaraghavan, Apoorva Nitsure, Luyao Shi +5
Register-Transfer Level (RTL) synthesis and summarization are central to hardware design automation but remain challenging for Large Language Models (LLMs) due to rigid HDL syntax,…
Chain-of-Descriptions: Improving Code LLMs for VHDL Code Generation and Summarization
Prashanth Vijayaraghavan, Apoorva Nitsure, Charles Mackin +9
Large Language Models (LLMs) have become widely used across diverse NLP tasks and domains, demonstrating their adaptability and effectiveness. In the realm of Electronic Design Aut…
Revisiting Group Relative Policy Optimization: Insights into On-Policy and Off-Policy Training
Youssef Mroueh, Nicolas Dupuis, Brian Belgodere +6
We revisit Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) in both on-policy and off-policy optimization regimes. Our motivation comes from recent work on off-policy Proximal Policy Opti…
Multivariate Stochastic Dominance via Optimal Transport and Applications to Models Benchmarking
Gabriel Rioux, Apoorva Nitsure, Mattia Rigotti +2
Stochastic dominance is an important concept in probability theory, econometrics and social choice theory for robustly modeling agents' preferences between random outcomes. While m…