Transferable Parasitic Estimation via Graph Contrastive Learning and Label Rebalancing in AMS Circuits
Abstract
Graph representation learning on Analog-Mixed Signal (AMS) circuits is crucial for various downstream tasks, e.g., parasitic estimation. However, the scarcity of design data, the unbalanced distribution of labels, and the inherent diversity of circuit implementations pose significant challenges to learning robust and transferable circuit representations. To address these limitations, we propose CircuitGCL, a novel graph contrastive learning framework that integrates representation scattering and label rebalancing to enhance transferability across heterogeneous circuit graphs. CircuitGCL employs a self-supervised strategy to learn topology-invariant node embeddings through hyperspherical representation scattering, eliminating dependency on large-scale data. Simultaneously, balanced mean squared error (BMSE) and balanced softmax cross-entropy (BSCE) losses are introduced to mitigate label distribution disparities between circuits, enabling robust and transferable parasitic estimation. Evaluated on parasitic capacitance estimation (edge-level task) and ground capacitance classification (node-level task) across TSMC 28nm AMS designs, CircuitGCL outperforms all state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods, with the improvement of for edge regression and F1-score gain of for node classification. Our code is available at https://github.com/ShenShan123/CircuitGCL.
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@article{arxiv.2507.06535,
title = {Transferable Parasitic Estimation via Graph Contrastive Learning and Label Rebalancing in AMS Circuits},
author = {Shan Shen and Shenglu Hua and Jiajun Zou and Jiawei Liu and Jianwang Zhai and Chuan Shi and Wenjian Yu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.06535},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
Final version accepted by the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) 2025. First two authors have equal contributions