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Alignment Unlocks Complementarity: A Framework for Multiview Circuit Representation Learning

Machine Learning 2025-09-26 v1

Abstract

Multiview learning on Boolean circuits holds immense promise, as different graph-based representations offer complementary structural and semantic information. However, the vast structural heterogeneity between views, such as an And-Inverter Graph (AIG) versus an XOR-Majority Graph (XMG), poses a critical barrier to effective fusion, especially for self-supervised techniques like masked modeling. Naively applying such methods fails, as the cross-view context is perceived as noise. Our key insight is that functional alignment is a necessary precondition to unlock the power of multiview self-supervision. We introduce MixGate, a framework built on a principled training curriculum that first teaches the model a shared, function-aware representation space via an Equivalence Alignment Loss. Only then do we introduce a multiview masked modeling objective, which can now leverage the aligned views as a rich, complementary signal. Extensive experiments, including a crucial ablation study, demonstrate that our alignment-first strategy transforms masked modeling from an ineffective technique into a powerful performance driver.

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@article{arxiv.2509.20968,
  title  = {Alignment Unlocks Complementarity: A Framework for Multiview Circuit Representation Learning},
  author = {Zhengyuan Shi and Jingxin Wang and Wentao Jiang and Chengyu Ma and Ziyang Zheng and Zhufei Chu and Weikang Qian and Qiang Xu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.20968},
  year   = {2025}
}
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