PICasso is an AI‑enabled framework that converts natural‑language specifications into manufacturable silicon photonic integrated circuits (PICs) through a structured pipeline of NL → YAML → GDS, PDK‑aware knowledge injection, automated placement and routing, DRC/LVS validation, and SAX‑based photonic simulation. The authors introduce PIC‑Set, a benchmark of 36 parameterized PIC design tasks, and evaluate several large language models (LLMs) using new metrics such as structural and functional Spec@k, optimization efficiency, and robustness. Across the benchmark, PICasso markedly improves specification satisfaction, achieving up to 92.7% structural Spec@3 and 52% functional Spec@3, while reducing mean insertion loss from 4.98 dB to 3.25 dB through simulation‑guided optimization.
By Deepak Vungarala, Deniz Najafi, Abdulrahman Aljoudi, Zahra Ghanaatian, Navid Khoshavi, Gourav Datta, Arman Roohi, Mahdi Nikdast, Shaahin Angizi
arXiv:2604. 27996v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper examines how large language model (LLM) agents perform on scientific visualization (SciVis) tasks that require generating visualization workflows from natural-language instructions.
By Jackson Vonderhorst, Kuangshi Ai, Haichao Miao, Shusen Liu, Chaoli Wang
arXiv:2607. 09616v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As chip complexity increases and time-to-market pressures grow, front-end design has become a critical bottleneck in chip development.
By Kangwei Xu, Bing Li, Ulf Schlichtmann
EngiAI introduces a capability-based evaluation framework for tool-connected engineering agents, assessing workflow execution, retrieval-assisted parameter selection, HPC orchestration, and training-code authoring using execution traces and engineering artifacts. The framework was applied to four LLM backends on EngiBench Beams2D and Photonics2D, revealing that proprietary models outperform open-source ones in workflow completion and HPC orchestration, while indexed retrieval improves parameter selection. The study demonstrates that evaluating distinct skills separately provides clearer insight into failure mechanisms than end-to-end success rates alone.
By Gioele Molinari, Florian Felten, Soheyl Massoudi, Mark Fuge
arXiv:2606. 13368v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Computer-Aided Design is pivotal in modern manufacturing, yet existing automated methods predominantly rely on open-loop, one-shot generation, creating a mismatch with iterative real-world practices.
By Tao Hu, Jiaxin Ai, Licheng Wen, Xueheng Li, Shu Zou, Siqi Li, Nianchen Deng, Xinyu Cai, Hongbin Zhou, Pinlong Cai, Daocheng Fu, Yu Yang, Hairong Zhang, Botian Shi, Xuemeng Yang
Computer-Aided Design is pivotal in modern manufacturing, yet existing automated methods predominantly rely on open-loop, one-shot generation, creating a mismatch with iterative real-world practices. In this paper, we present IterCAD, a unified multimodal agent framework for closed-loop, interactive CAD generation and editing.
arXiv:2410.19245v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: With the rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs), LLM-based approaches have demonstrated strong problem-solving capabilities across...
By Zixiao Zhao, Jing Sun, Zhe Hou, Zhiyuan Wei, Cheng-Hao Cai, Miao Qiao, Jin Song Dong
arXiv:2607. 17528v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-driven agent systems have emerged as a promising paradigm for electronic design automation (EDA), demonstrating strong potential for automating complex design workflows.
By Jinyuan Deng, Zhengrui Chen, Xufeng Wei, Tianyu Xing, Chenyi Wen, Cheng Zhuo
The paper introduces Tool Primitives, a design that replaces rigid API schemas with natural language interfaces for tool calling, enabling seamless inter-tool communication. It builds ToolFace, a repository of over 25,000 functions that LLMs can dynamically retrieve, and HEART, a harness engineering framework that orchestrates tool use with planning, routing, and verification. Experiments show HEART outperforms fine‑tuned models and leading commercial LLMs while cutting API costs by up to 85%.
By Haibo Jin, Suijin Wang, Xucheng Yu, Haojing Luo, Haohan Wang
arXiv:2509. 17255v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present the first language-model-driven agentic artificial intelligence (AI) system to autonomously execute multi-stage physics experiments on a production synchrotron light source.
By Thorsten Hellert, Drew Bertwistle, Simon C. Leemann, Antonin Sulc, Marco Venturini
The paper introduces Harness Primitives—reusable agent harness mechanisms mined from failed task trajectories—and a framework called STITCH that selects and composes these primitives into task‑specific harnesses at test time. This approach avoids generating or debugging harness code for each task, achieving up to 12‑point gains in task success over fixed harness baselines and outperforming human‑designed harnesses like Codex CLI. STITCH also demonstrates minimal test‑time overhead (2.7%) and scales efficiently with the size of the primitive library.
By Peng Kuang, Haibo Jin, Dehao Wu, Feiyang Deng, Xiaopeng Yuan, Jerry Wang, Haohan Wang
arXiv:2606. 01188v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Translating natural-language hardware requirements into correct printed circuit board (PCB) schematics remains difficult in embedded, IoT, and wearable development.
By Tobias King, Steven Kehrberg, Michael Beigl, Tobias R\"oddiger