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We propose a new method for collision-free planning using Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (cGANs) to transform between the robot's joint space and a latent space that captures only collision-free areas of the joint space,…

We study automated test generation for verifying discrete decision-making modules in autonomous systems. We utilize linear temporal logic to encode the requirements on the system under test in the system specification and the behavior that…

The design automation of analog circuits is a longstanding challenge. This paper presents a reinforcement learning method enhanced by graph learning to automate the analog circuit parameter optimization at the pre-layout stage, i.e.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Weidong Cao , Mouhacine Benosman , Xuan Zhang , Rui Ma

Computer-aided design (CAD) is the most widely used modeling approach for technical design. The typical starting point in these designs is 2D sketches which can later be extruded and combined to obtain complex three-dimensional assemblies.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Wamiq Reyaz Para , Shariq Farooq Bhat , Paul Guerrero , Tom Kelly , Niloy Mitra , Leonidas Guibas , Peter Wonka

Analog circuit design is a significant task in modern chip technology, focusing on the selection of component types, connectivity, and parameters to ensure proper circuit functionality. Despite advances made by Large Language Models (LLMs)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Yao Lai , Sungyoung Lee , Guojin Chen , Souradip Poddar , Mengkang Hu , David Z. Pan , Ping Luo

Analog/mixed-signal circuit design is one of the most complex and time-consuming stages in the whole chip design process. Due to various process, voltage, and temperature (PVT) variations from chip manufacturing, analog circuits inevitably…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Wei Shi , Hanrui Wang , Jiaqi Gu , Mingjie Liu , David Pan , Song Han , Nan Sun

In recent years, analog circuits have received extensive attention and are widely used in many emerging applications. The high demand for analog circuits necessitates shorter circuit design cycles. To achieve the desired performance and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Qi Xu , Lijie Wang , Jing Wang , Lin Cheng , Song Chen , Yi Kang

We propose a simple yet highly effective method that addresses the mode-collapse problem in the Conditional Generative Adversarial Network (cGAN). Although conditional distributions are multi-modal (i.e., having many modes) in practice,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Dingdong Yang , Seunghoon Hong , Yunseok Jang , Tianchen Zhao , Honglak Lee

Recent advances in machine learning (ML) for automating analog circuit synthesis have been significant, yet challenges remain. A critical gap is the lack of a standardized evaluation framework, compounded by various process design kits…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Jintao Li , Haochang Zhi , Ruiyu Lyu , Wangzhen Li , Zhaori Bi , Keren Zhu , Yanhan Zeng , Weiwei Shan , Changhao Yan , Fan Yang , Yun Li , Xuan Zeng

Path planning plays an important role in autonomous robot systems. Effective understanding of the surrounding environment and efficient generation of optimal collision-free path are both critical parts for solving path planning problem.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Nachuan Ma , Jiankun Wang , Max Q. -H. Meng

The design automation of analog circuits is a longstanding challenge in the integrated circuit field. This paper presents a deep reinforcement learning method to expedite the design of analog circuits at the pre-layout stage, where the goal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Weidong Cao , Mouhacine Benosman , Xuan Zhang , Rui Ma

Previous efforts on reconfigurable analog circuits mostly focused on specialized analog circuits, produced through careful co-design, or on highly reconfigurable, but relatively resource inefficient, accelerators that implement analog…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Yu-Neng Wang , Glenn Cowan , Ulrich Rührmair , Sara Achour

ALIGN ("Analog Layout, Intelligently Generated from Netlists") is an open-source automatic layout generation flow for analog circuits. ALIGN translates an input SPICE netlist to an output GDSII layout, specific to a given technology, as…

Planning is a critical component of end-to-end autonomous driving. However, prevailing imitation learning methods often suffer from mode collapse, failing to produce diverse trajectory hypotheses. Meanwhile, existing generative approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Lin Liu , Guanyi Yu , Ziying Song , Junqiao Li , Caiyan Jia , Feiyang Jia , Peiliang Wu , Yandan Luo

This paper proposes a series of new approaches to improve Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) for conditional image synthesis and we name the proposed model as ArtGAN. One of the key innovation of ArtGAN is that, the gradient of the loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-27 Wei Ren Tan , Chee Seng Chan , Hernan Aguirre , Kiyoshi Tanaka

Automatic code generation is frequently used to create implementations of algorithms specifically tuned to particular hardware and application parameters. The code generation process involves the selection of adequate code transformations,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Dominik Ernst , Markus Holzer , Georg Hager , Matthias Knorr , Gerhard Wellein

This paper proposes a novel generative adversarial layout refinement network for automated floorplan generation. Our architecture is an integration of a graph-constrained relational GAN and a conditional GAN, where a previously generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Nelson Nauata , Sepidehsadat Hosseini , Kai-Hung Chang , Hang Chu , Chin-Yi Cheng , Yasutaka Furukawa

In this work, we introduce CC3D, a conditional generative model that synthesizes complex 3D scenes conditioned on 2D semantic scene layouts, trained using single-view images. Different from most existing 3D GANs that limit their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Sherwin Bahmani , Jeong Joon Park , Despoina Paschalidou , Xingguang Yan , Gordon Wetzstein , Leonidas Guibas , Andrea Tagliasacchi

Automated design of analog and radio-frequency circuits using supervised or reinforcement learning from simulation data has recently been studied as an alternative to manual expert design. It is straightforward for a design agent to learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Dmitrii Krylov , Pooya Khajeh , Junhan Ouyang , Thomas Reeves , Tongkai Liu , Hiba Ajmal , Hamidreza Aghasi , Roy Fox

Quantum algorithms, represented as quantum circuits, can be used as benchmarks for assessing the performance of quantum systems. Existing datasets, widely utilized in the field, suffer from limitations in size and versatility, leading…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-26 Boran Apak , Medina Bandic , Aritra Sarkar , Sebastian Feld