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Researchers have developed a novel federated learning approach to analyze HIV prevention trial data across different regions without sharing individual-level information. This method allows for the estimation of region-specific survival curves and causal contrasts, addressing heterogeneity in treatment efficacy observed in the Antibody Mediated Prevention (AMP) trials. The approach enhances privacy and improves inference precision by downweighting data sources not aligned with the target population. AI

Researchers have developed StructRTL, a new framework that uses structural graph learning to improve the estimation of Register Transfer Level (RTL) design quality. This method leverages control data flow graphs (CDFG) to capture essential structural semantics, outperforming previous token-based approaches. The framework also incorporates knowledge distillation from post-mapping netlists to further enhance prediction accuracy, setting new state-of-the-art results in RTL quality estimation. AI