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CHORUS framework boosts hardware verification code generation

Researchers have developed CHORUS, a post-training framework designed to enhance code generation for hardware verification. This framework leverages staged supervised fine-tuning (SFT) to create diverse checkpoints, which are then refined into specialized experts using dense-reward reinforcement learning (RL). By combining these complementary experts, CHORUS significantly improves performance on the CVDP-ECov benchmark, achieving 88.0% Pass@1. This result surpasses the performance of the much larger DeepSeek-R1 model by 13.5 percentage points. AI

IMPACT This framework could improve the efficiency and effectiveness of code generation for hardware verification tasks.

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  1. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    CHORUS: Complementary Experts for High-Coverage Testbench Stimulus Generation

    Large language models (LLMs) have advanced code generation, where executable feedback provides a more reliable learning signal than textual imitation alone. Hardware verification is an important application of code generation and accounts for a substantial fraction of modern chip…