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R2G: A Multi-View Circuit Graph Benchmark Suite from RTL to GDSII

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2026-04-13 v1 Machine Learning

Abstract

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are increasingly applied to physical design tasks such as congestion prediction and wirelength estimation, yet progress is hindered by inconsistent circuit representations and the absence of controlled evaluation protocols. We present R2G (RTL-to-GDSII), a multi-view circuit-graph benchmark suite that standardizes five stage-aware views with information parity (every view encodes the same attribute set, differing only in where features attach) over 30 open-source IP cores (up to 10610^6 nodes/edges). R2G provides an end-to-end DEF-to-graph pipeline spanning synthesis, placement, and routing stages, together with loaders, unified splits, domain metrics, and reproducible baselines. By decoupling representation choice from model choice, R2G isolates a confound that prior EDA and graph-ML benchmarks leave uncontrolled. In systematic studies with GINE, GAT, and ResGatedGCN, we find: (i) view choice dominates model choice, with Test R2^2 varying by more than 0.3 across representations for a fixed GNN; (ii) node-centric views generalize best across both placement and routing; and (iii) decoder-head depth (3--4 layers) is the primary accuracy driver, turning divergent training into near-perfect predictions (R2^2>>0.99). Code and datasets are available at https://github.com/ShenShan123/R2G.

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@article{arxiv.2604.08810,
  title  = {R2G: A Multi-View Circuit Graph Benchmark Suite from RTL to GDSII},
  author = {Zewei Zhou and Jiajun Zou and Jiajia Zhang and Ao Yang and Ruichao He and Haozheng Zhou and Ao Liu and Jiawei Liu and Leilei Jin and Shan Shen and Daying Sun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.08810},
  year   = {2026}
}

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Accepted as a poster by CVPR2026

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