9 papers
LithoGRPO: Fast Inverse Lithography via GRPO Reinforced Flow Matching
Yao Lai, Xuyuan Xiong, Zeyue Xue +7
In semiconductor manufacturing, lithography projects circuit layouts onto silicon wafers through an optical mask. As circuit features shrink below the wavelength of light, optical…
KernelCraft: Benchmarking for Agentic Close-to-Metal Kernel Generation on Emerging Hardware
Jiayi Nie, Haoran Wu, Yao Lai +9
New AI accelerators with novel instruction set architectures (ISAs) often require developers to manually craft low-level kernels, a time-consuming and error-prone process that does…
ClawMark: A Living-World Benchmark for Multi-Turn, Multi-Day, Multimodal Coworker Agents
Fanqing Meng, Lingxiao Du, Zijian Wu +46
Language-model agents are increasingly used as persistent coworkers that assist users across multiple working days. During such workflows, the surrounding environment may change in…
AnalogRetriever: Learning Cross-Modal Representations for Analog Circuit Retrieval
Yihan Wang, Lei Li, Yao Lai +2
Analog circuit design relies heavily on reusing existing intellectual property (IP), yet searching across heterogeneous representations such as SPICE netlists, schematics, and func…
NPU Design for Diffusion Language Model Inference
Binglei Lou, Haoran Wu, Kevin Lau +9
Diffusion-based LLMs (dLLMs) fundamentally depart from traditional autoregressive (AR) LLM inference: they leverage bidirectional attention, block-wise KV cache refreshing, cross-s…
MemExplorer: Navigating the Heterogeneous Memory Design Space for Agentic Inference NPUs
Haoran Wu, Zeyu Cao, Yao Lai +15
Emerging agentic LLM workloads are driving rapidly growing demand on both memory capacity and bandwidth, with different phases of inference (e.g., prefill and decode) imposing dist…