AI/ML algorithms and applications in VLSI design and technology

D Amuru, A Zahra, HV Vudumula, PK Cherupally… - Integration, 2023 - Elsevier
An evident challenge ahead for the integrated circuit (IC) industry is the investigation and
development of methods to reduce the design complexity ensuing from growing process …

Graph neural networks: A powerful and versatile tool for advancing design, reliability, and security of ICs

L Alrahis, J Knechtel, O Sinanoglu - Proceedings of the 28th Asia and …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Graph neural networks (GNNs) have pushed the state-of-the-art (SOTA) for performance in
learning and predicting on large-scale data present in social networks, biology, etc. Since …

Graph-Reinforcement-Learning-Based Dependency-Aware Microservice Deployment in Edge Computing

W Lv, P Yang, T Zheng, C Lin, Z Wang… - IEEE Internet of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Microservice architecture is a design philosophy that achieves decoupling by decomposing
a monolithic application into multiple lightweight microservices. Meanwhile, edge computing …

: Backdoor Attack on Graph Neural Networks-Based Hardware Security Systems

L Alrahis, S Patnaik, MA Hanif… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown great success in detecting intellectual property
(IP) piracy and hardware Trojans (HTs). However, the machine learning community has …

Fast and accurate aging-aware cell timing model via graph learning

Y Ye, T Chen, Z Wang, H Yan, B Yu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With transistors scaling down, aging effects become increasingly significant in circuit design.
Thus, the aging-aware cell timing model is necessary for evaluating the aging-induced delay …

Towards Data-centric Machine Learning on Directed Graphs: a Survey

H Sun, X Li, D Su, J Han, RH Li, G Wang - arxiv preprint arxiv:2412.01849, 2024 - arxiv.org
In recent years, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have made significant advances in
processing structured data. However, most of them primarily adopted a model-centric …

A reliability-critical path identifying method with local and global adjacency probability matrix in combinational circuits

Z Shi, J **ao, W Zhu, J Jiang - IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Accurate and efficient identification of reliability-critical paths (RCPs) not only facilitates fault
localization and troubleshooting but also allows circuit designers to improve circuit reliability …

TrojanSAINT: Gate-level netlist sampling-based inductive learning for hardware Trojan detection

H Lashen, L Alrahis, J Knechtel… - 2023 IEEE International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose TrojanSAINT, a graph neural network (GNN)-based hardware Trojan (HT)
detection scheme working at the gate level. Unlike prior GNN-based art, TrojanSAINT …

Fast Aging-aware Timing Analysis Framework WITH Temporal-Spatial Graph Neural Network

J Ye, P Ren, Y Xue, H Fang, Z Ji - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the downscaling of CMOS technology, device aging induced by hot carrier injection
and bias temperature instability effects poses severe challenges to timing analysis of digital …

Graph Neural Networks for Parameterized Quantum Circuits Expressibility Estimation

S Aktar, A Bärtschi, D Oyen, S Eidenbenz… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Parameterized quantum circuits (PQCs) are fundamental to quantum machine learning
(QML), quantum optimization, and variational quantum algorithms (VQAs). The expressibility …