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With high device integration density and evolving sophisticated device structures in semiconductor chips, detecting defects becomes elusive and complex. Conventionally, machine learning (ML)-guided failure analysis is performed with offline…

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Attaining prototypical features to represent class distributions is well established in representation learning. However, learning prototypes online from streaming data proves a challenging endeavor as they rapidly become outdated, caused…

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