Accurate routability estimation during physical design is important for reducing costly post-routing iterations. Prior learning-based methods treat this task as deterministic prediction, mapping placement-stage features to a single congestion or DRC outcome.
arXiv:2512. 20685v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion models have recently emerged as powerful learners for simulation-based inference (SBI), enabling fast and accurate estimation of latent parameters from simulated and real data.
By Jonas Arruda, Niels Bracher, Ullrich K\"othe, Jan Hasenauer, Stefan T. Radev
arXiv:2603. 11075v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) designs continue to scale in size and complexity, layout verification has become a central challenge in modern Electronic Design Automation (EDA) workflows.
By Runbang Hu, Bo Fang, Bingzhe Li, Yuede Ji
arXiv:2607. 12922v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Stochastic-process models are, as a rule, far easier to simulate than to condition.
By Louis Sharrock, Lachlan Astfalck, Henry Moss
arXiv:2607. 17398v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Analytical placers rely on differentiable objective functions to guide placement, typically combining intermediate surrogate metrics such as half-perimeter wirelength (HPWL) and cell-density penalties.
By Ruogu Chen, Weihua Xiao, Ramesh Karri, Jie Han
arXiv:2606. 11247v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative models are increasingly used to propose designs, data, and control actions for physical systems, yet many such systems are governed by hard physical constraints rather than by perceptual plausibility.
By Yaser Mike Banad, Sarah Sharif
Stochastic-process models are, as a rule, far easier to simulate than to condition. Non-linear observations, non-Gaussian likelihoods, black-box information, and global constraints all induce intractable conditional laws, requiring bespoke, model-specific constructions.
arXiv:2606. 30574v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many modern generative modeling methods, including diffusion models, normalizing flows, and flow matching, estimate transport maps or plans between distributions without explicitly targeting an optimal transport (OT) map.
By Sivaraman Balakrishnan
arXiv:2608. 09876v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Physically consistent motion planning remains a fundamental challenge in embodied AI, as generated trajectories must strictly conform to real-world execution dynamics.
By Yapeng Liu, Yuanzhao Zhai, Bo Ding, Huaimin Wang, Lin Wang
arXiv:2607. 15682v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sampling from an unnormalized Boltzmann density requires proposals that move probability mass globally while retaining enough path-probability information for statistical correction.
By Moxian Qian
arXiv:2606. 07481v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) provides high-fidelity flow fields for optimizing indoor environments, its computational cost limits rapid exploration.
By Chris R. Jung, Markus D\"orr, Natalie J\"ungling, Jennifer Niessner, Adam T. M\"uller, Nicolaj C. Stache
Many modern generative modeling methods, including diffusion models, normalizing flows, and flow matching, estimate transport maps or plans between distributions without explicitly targeting an optimal transport (OT) map. In applications like generative modeling, the transport cost itself is irrelevant, and this makes it natural to target maps which are more tractable from either a statistical or computational standpoint.