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New EXPLORE framework uses LLMs and MCTS for analog circuit design

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Researchers have developed EXPLORE, a new framework that enhances analog circuit topology generation using language models. This system integrates simulator-guided Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) with transformer-based decoding to improve the generation of complex circuits. EXPLORE showed a significant increase in success rate, from 12% for one-shot generation to 65% on a 6-component benchmark, while also reducing Mean Squared Error (MSE). This approach represents a practical advancement in scaling LLM-driven design automation. AI

IMPACT This research demonstrates a novel method for using LLMs and search algorithms to automate complex circuit design, potentially accelerating hardware development.

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New EXPLORE framework uses LLMs and MCTS for analog circuit design

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Guanglei Zhou, Chen-Chia Chang, Yikang Shen, Jonathan Ku, Isaac Jacobson, Jingyu Pan, Yiran Chen, Xin Zhang ·

    EXPLORE: Exploration with Guided Search for Analog Topology Generation using Language Models

    arXiv:2607.13416v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automating analog circuit topology design is essential to reduce the extensive manual effort required to meet increasingly diverse and customized application demands. Recent advances have applied sequence-to-sequence fine-tuning on …

  2. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Xin Zhang ·

    EXPLORE: Exploration with Guided Search for Analog Topology Generation using Language Models

    Automating analog circuit topology design is essential to reduce the extensive manual effort required to meet increasingly diverse and customized application demands. Recent advances have applied sequence-to-sequence fine-tuning on pretrained language models to directly generate …

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