Publications

Summary: IEEE TCAD (84), DAC (62), ICCAD (51), etc.

Journal & Conference Papers

Selected Preprints

  • “SoLA: Solver-Layer Adaption of LLM for Better Logic Reasoning”. (arXiv)

  • “On the Evaluation of Generative Models in Distributed Learning Tasks”. (arXiv)

Accepted

  • [J140] Xufeng Yao, Haoyang Li, Tsz Ho Chan, Wenyi Xiao, Mingxuan Yuan, Yu Huang, Lei Chen, Bei Yu, “HDLdebugger: Streamlining HDL debugging with Large Language Models”, accepted by ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES). (arXiv)

  • [J138] Jiahao Xu, Zhuolun He, Shuo Yin, Yuan Pu, Wenjian Yu, Bei Yu, “EasyMRC: Efficient Mask Rule Checking via Representative Edge Sampling”, accepted by ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES).

  • [J134] Yuan Pu, Tinghuan Chen, Zhuolun He, Jiajun Qin, Chen Bai, Haisheng Zheng, Yibo Lin, Bei Yu, “IncreMacro: Incremental Macro Placement Refinement”, accepted by IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD).

  • [J130] Zhuolun He, Yuan Pu, Haoyuan Wu, Yuhan Qin, Tairu Qiu, Bei Yu, “Large Language Models for EDA: From Assistants to Agents”, accepted by Foundations and Trends in Electronic Design Automation.

2025

  • [C274] Shaoteng Liu, Tianyu Wang, Jui-Hsien Wang, Qing Liu, Zhifei Zhang, Joon-Young Lee, Yijun Li, Bei Yu, Zhe Lin, Soo Ye Kim, Jiaya Jia, “Generative Video Propagation”, IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Nashville, Jun. 11–15, 2025.

  • [C273] Bin Xia, Yuechen Zhang, Jingyao Li, Chengyao Wang, Yitong Wang, Xinglong Wu, Bei Yu, Jiaya Jia, “DreamOmni: Unified Image Generation and Editing”, IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Nashville, Jun. 11–15, 2025.

  • [C272] Senqiao Yang, Yukang Chen, Zhuotao Tian, Chengyao Wang, Jingyao Li, Bei Yu, Jiaya Jia, “VisionZip: Longer is Better but Not Necessary in Vision Language Models”, IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Nashville, Jun. 11–15, 2025.

  • [C271] Yuxuan Zhao, Peiyu Liao, Bei Yu, “3D-Flow: Flow-based Standard Cell Legalization for 3D ICs”, ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, Jun. 22–25, 2025.

  • [C270] Hongduo Liu, Chen BAI, Peng Xu, Lihao Yin, Xianzhi Yu, Hui-Ling Zhen, Mingxuan Yuan, Tsung-Yi Ho, Bei Yu, “LLMShare: Optimizing LLM Inference Serving with Hardware Architecture Exploration”, ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, Jun. 22–25, 2025.

  • [C269] Ziyang Yu, Peng Xu, Zixiao WANG, Binwu Zhu, Qipan Wang, Yibo Lin, Runsheng Wang, Bei Yu, Martin Wong, “SDM-PEB: Spatial-Depthwise Mamba for Enhanced Post-Exposure Bake Simulation”, ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, Jun. 22–25, 2025.

  • [C268] Su Zheng, Xiaoxiao Liang, Ziyang Yu, Yuzhe Ma, Bei Yu and Martin Wong, “Curvilinear Optical Proximity Correction via Cardinal Spline”, ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, Jun. 22–25, 2025.

  • [C267] Xun Jiang, Haoran Lu, Yuxuan Zhao, Jiarui Wang, Zizheng Guo, Heng Wu, Bei Yu, Sung Kyu Lim, Runsheng Wang, Ru Huang, Yibo Lin, “A Systematic Approach for Multi-Objective Double-Side Clock Tree Synthesis”, ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, Jun. 22–25, 2025.

  • [C266] Donger Luo, Qi Sun, Xinheng Li, Cheng Zhuo, Bei Yu, Hao Geng, “From Flatland to Forest: Exploring Pareto-optimal Design through RTL Hierarchy Trees”, ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, Jun. 22–25, 2025.

  • [C265] Yuyang Ye, Xiangfei Hu, Yuchen Liu, Peng Xu, Yu Gong, Tinghuan Chen, Hao Yan, Bei Yu, Longxing Shi, “Rank-based Multi-objective Approximate Logic Synthesis via Monte Carlo Tree Search”, ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, Jun. 22–25, 2025.

  • [C264] Mingjun Wang, Bin Sun, Jianan Mu, Feng Gu, Boyu Han, Tianmeng Yang, Xinyu Zhang, Silin Liu, Yihan Wen, Hui Wang, Gao Jun, Zhiteng Chao, Husheng Han, Zizhen Liu, Shengwen Liang, Jing Ye, Bei Yu, Xiaowei Li, Huawei Li, “MOSS: Multi-Modal Representation Learning on Sequential Circuits”, ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, Jun. 22–25, 2025.

  • [C263] Baohui Xie, Xinrui Zhu, Zhiyuan Lu, Yuan Pu, Tongkai Wu, Xiaofeng Zou, Bei Yu, Tinghuan Chen, “DSPlacer: DSP Placement for FPGA-based CNN accelerator”, ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, Jun. 22–25, 2025.

  • [C262] Haoyuan Wu, Haisheng Zheng, Zhuolun He, Bei Yu, “Divergent Thoughts toward One Goal: LLM-based Multi-Agent Collaboration System for Electronic Design Automation”, Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), Albuquerque, New Mexico, Apr. 29–May 4, 2025.

  • [C261] Haoyuan Wu, Haisheng Zheng, Yuan Pu, Bei Yu, “Circuit Representation Learning with Masked Gate Modeling and Verilog-AIG Alignment”, International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), Singapore, Apr. 24–28, 2025.

  • [C260] Xiangfei Hu, Yuyang Ye, Tinghuan Chen, Hao Yan, Bei Yu, “Timing-driven Approximate Logic Synthesis Based on Double-chase Grey Wolf Optimizer”, IEEE/ACM Proceedings Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), Lyon, France, Mar. 31–Apr. 02, 2025. (arXiv)

  • [C259] Haisheng Zheng, Haoyuan WU, Zhuolun He, Yuzhe Ma, Bei Yu, “iRw: An Intelligent Rewriting”, IEEE/ACM Proceedings Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), Lyon, France, Mar. 31–Apr. 02, 2025.

  • [C258] Jiawei Liu, Zhiyan Liu, Xun He, Jianwang Zhai, Zhengyuan Shi, Qiang Xu, Bei Yu, Chuan Shi, “WideGate: Beyond Directed Acyclic Graph Learning in Subcircuit Boundary Prediction”, IEEE/ACM Proceedings Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), Lyon, France, Mar. 31–Apr. 02, 2025.

  • [C257] Feng Guo, Jianwang Zhai, Jingyu Jia, Jiawei Liu, Kang Zhao, Bei Yu, Chuan Shi, “IR-Fusion: A Fusion Framework for Static IR Drop Analysis Combining Mathematical Solutions and Machine Learning”, IEEE/ACM Proceedings Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), Lyon, France, Mar. 31–Apr. 02, 2025.

  • [C256] Tianyi Li, Zhexin Tang, Tao Wu, Bei Yu, Jingyi Yu, Hao Geng, “LLM-SRAF: Sub-Resolution Assist Feature Generation Using Large Language Model”, IEEE/ACM Proceedings Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), Lyon, France, Mar. 31–Apr. 02, 2025.

  • [C251] Guojin Chen, Haoyu Yang, Haoxing Ren, Bei Yu, “Intelligent OPC Engineer Assistant for Semiconductor Manufacturing”, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Philadelphia, Feb. 25–Mar. 04, 2025. (arXiv)

  • [C250] Zixiao Wang, Junwu Weng, Mengyuan Liu, Bei Yu, “FlexPose: Pose Distribution Adaptation with Limited Guidance”, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Philadelphia, Feb. 25–Mar. 04, 2025.

  • [C249] Zixiao Wang, Jieya Zhou, Su Zheng, Shuo Yin, Kaichao Liang, Shoubo Hu, Xiao Chen, Bei Yu, “TorchResist: Open-source differentiable resist simulator”, SPIE Advanced Lithography + Patterning, San Jose, Feb. 23–27, 2025. (paper) (poster) (code)


  • [J124] Hongduo Liu, Peiyu Liao, Mengchuan Zou, Bowen Pang, Xijun Li, Mingxuan Yuan, Tsung-Yi Ho, Bei Yu, “Layout Decomposition via Boolean Satisfiability”, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), vol. 44, no. 03, pp. 1112–1125, 2025. (paper)

2024

  • [C240] Guojin Chen, Haoyu Yang, Haoxing Ren, Bei Yu and David Z. Pan, “Differentiable Edge-based OPC”, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), New Jersey, Oct. 27–31, 2024. (paper) (slides)

  • [C239] Xufeng Yao, Yiwen Wang, Xing Li, Yingzhao Lian, Ran Chen, Lei Chen, Mingxuan Yuan, Hong Xu, Bei Yu, “RTLRewriter: Methodologies for Large Models aided RTL Code Optimization”, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), New Jersey, Oct. 27–31, 2024. (paper) (slides)

  • [C238] Peng Xu, Su Zheng, Yuyang Ye, Chen Bai, Siyuan Xu, Hao Geng, Tsung-Yi Ho, Bei Yu, “RankTuner: When Design Tool Parameter Tuning Meets Preference Bayesian Optimization”, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), New Jersey, Oct. 27–31, 2024. (paper) (slides)

  • [C237] Yu Zhang, Hui-Ling Zhen, Mingxuan Yuan, Bei Yu, “DiffSAT: Differential MaxSAT Layer for SAT Solving”, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), New Jersey, Oct. 27–31, 2024. (paper) (slides)

  • [C236] Yuan Pu, Zhuolun He, Tairu Qiu, Haoyuan Wu, Bei Yu, “Customized Retrieval Augmented Generation and Benchmarking for EDA Tool Documentation QA”, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), New Jersey, Oct. 27–31, 2024. (paper) (slides) (Best Paper Award Nomination)

  • [C235] Yihan Wen, Juan Li, Bei Yu, Xiaoyi Wang, “Peak Power and Dynamic IR-drop Assessment via Waveform Augmenting”, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), New Jersey, Oct. 27–31, 2024. (paper) (slides)

  • [C234] Lvcheng Chen, Ying Wu, Chenyi Wen, Shizhang Wang, Li Zhang, Bei Yu, Qi Sun, Cheng Zhuo, “An Agile Framework for Efficient LLM Accelerator Development and Model Inference”, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), New Jersey, Oct. 27–31, 2024. (paper) (slides) (William J. McCalla Best Paper Award)

  • [C233] Jiawei Liu, Jianwang Zhai, Mingyu Zhao, Zhe Lin, Bei Yu, Chuan Shi, “PolarGate: Breaking the Functionality Representation Bottleneck of And-Inverter Graph Neural Network”, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), New Jersey, Oct. 27–31, 2024. (paper) (slides)

  • [C232] Shangran Lin, Xinrui Zhu, Baohui Xie, Tinghuan Chen, Cheng Zhuo, Qi Sun, Bei Yu, “RISCSparse: Point Cloud Inference Engine on RISC-V Processor”, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), New Jersey, Oct. 27–31, 2024. (paper) (slides)

  • [C231] Yuanhang Gao, Donger Luo, Chen Bai, Bei Yu, Hao Geng, Qi Sun, Cheng Zhuo, “Is Vanilla Bayesian Optimization Enough for High-Dimensional Architecture Design Optimization?”, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), New Jersey, Oct. 27–31, 2024. (paper) (slides)

  • [C197] Yu Zhang, Wei Lin, Sisi Chen, Qingyu Song, Jiaxun Lu, Yunfeng Shao, Bei Yu, Hong Xu, “Fed2Com: Towards Efficient Compression in Federated Learning”, IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), Hawaii, Feb. 19–22, 2024.

  • [C196] Xingquan Li, Zengrong Huang, Simin Tao, Zhipeng Huang, Chunan Zhuang, Hao Wang, Yifan Li, Yihang Qiu, Guojie Luo, Huawei Li, Haihua Shen, Mingyu Chen, Dongbo Bu, Wenxing Zhu, Ye Cai, Xiaoming Xiong, Ying Jiang, Yi Heng, Peng Zhang, Bei Yu, Biwei Xie, Yungang Bao, “iEDA: An Open-source infrastructure of EDA”, IEEE/ACM Asian and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC), South Korea, Jan. 22–25, 2024. (paper) (slides) (Invited Paper)

  • [C195] Xingquan Li, Simin Tao, Shijian Chen, Zhisheng Zeng, Zhipeng Huang, Hongxi Wu, Weiguo Li1, Zengrong Huang, Liwei Ni, Xueyan Zhao, He Liu, Shuaiying Long, Ruizhi Liu, Xiaoze Lin, Bo Yang, Fuxing Huang, Zonglin Yang, Yihang Qiu, Zheqing Shao, Jikang Liu, Yuyao Liang, Biwei Xie, Yungang Bao, Bei Yu, “iPD: An Open-source intelligent Physical Design Tool Chain”, IEEE/ACM Asian and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC), South Korea, Jan. 22–25, 2024. (paper) (slides) (Invited Paper)


  • [J117] Jiequan Cui, Zhisheng Zhong, Zhuotao Tian, Shu Liu, Bei Yu, Jiaya Jia, “Generalized Parametric Contrastive Learning”, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), vol. 46, no. 12, pp. 7463–7474, 2024. (paper)

  • [J108] Jianwang Zhai, Zichao Ling, Chen Bai, Kang Zhao, Bei Yu, “Machine Learning for Microarchitecture Power Modeling and Design Space Exploration: A Survey”, Journal of Computer Research and Development (J-CRAD), vol. 61, no. 06, pp. 1-19, 2024. (in Chinese)

2023

  • [C179] Su Zheng, Bei Yu, Martin Wong, “OpenILT: An Open Source Inverse Lithography Technique Framework”, IEEE International Conference on ASIC (ASICON), Nanjing, Oct. 24–27, 2023. (paper) (slides) (Invited Paper)


2022


  • [J71] Martin Rapp, Hussam Amrouch, Yibo Lin, Bei Yu, David Z. Pan, Marilyn Wolf, Jorg Henkel, “MLCAD: A Survey of Research in Machine Learning for CAD”, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), vol. 41, no. 10, pp. 3162–3181, 2022. (paper) (Keynote Paper)

  • [J64] Yibo Lin, Xiaohan Gao, Tinghuan Chen, Bei Yu, “Machine learning for digital circuit backend design”, Micro/nano Electronics and Intelligent Manufacturing, vol. 2, no. 3, 2022. (in Chinese) (paper)

  • [J61] Ran Chen, Wei Zhong, Haoyu Yang, Hao Geng, Fan Yang, Xuan Zeng, Bei Yu, “Faster Region-based Hotspot Detection”, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 669–680, 2022. (code) (paper)

2021

  • [C118] Tinghuan Chen, Qi Sun, Bei Yu, “Machine Learning in Nanometer AMS Design for Reliability”, IEEE International Conference on ASIC (ASICON), Kunming, China, Oct. 26–29, 2021. (paper) (slides) (Invited Paper)

  • [C116] Wei Li, Guojin Chen, Haoyu Yang, Ran Chen, Bei Yu, “Learning Point Clouds in EDA”, ACM International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD), Mar. 21–Mar. 24, 2021. (paper) (slides) (Invited Paper)

  • [C111] Hongjia Li, Mengshu Sun, Tianyun Zhang, Olivia Chen, Nobuyuki Yoshikawa, Bei Yu, Yanzhi Wang, Yibo Lin, “Towards AQFP-Capable Physical Design Automation”, IEEE/ACM Proceedings Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), Feb. 01–05, 2021. (paper)


  • [J58] Wei Li, Yuzhe Ma, Qi Sun, Lu Zhang, Yibo Lin, Iris Hui-Ru Jiang, Bei Yu, David Z. Pan, “OpenMPL: An Open Source Layout Decomposer”, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), vol. 40, no. 11, pp. 2331–2344, 2021. (paper)

  • [J56] Guyue Huang, Jingbo Hu, Yifan He, Jialong Liu, Mingyuan Ma, Zhaoyang Shen, Juejian Wu, Yuanfan Xu, Hengrui Zhang, Kai Zhong, Xuefei Ning, Yuzhe Ma, Haoyu Yang, Bei Yu, Huazhong Yang, Yu Wang, “Machine Learning for Electronic Design Automation: A Survey”, ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES), vol. 25, no. 5, 2021. (paper)

2020


2019

  • [C80] Bentian Jiang, Xiaopeng Zhang, Ran Chen, Gengjie Chen, Peishan Tu, Wei Li, Evangeline F. Y. Young, Bei Yu, “FIT: Fill Insertion Considering Timing”, ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), pp. 221:1–221:6, Las Vegas, NV, June 2–6, 2019. (paper) (slides) (poster)


2018


2017

  • [C57] Hang Zhang, Fengyuan Zhu, Haocheng Li, Evangeline F. Y. Young, Bei Yu, “Bilinear Lithography Hotspot Detection”, ACM International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD), pp. 7–14, Portland, OR, Mar. 19–22, 2017. (paper) (Best Paper Award)


2016


2015


2014

2013


2012

  • [C13] Bei Yu, Jhih-Rong Gao, Duo Ding, Yongchan Ban, Jae-Seok Yang, Kun Yuan, Minsik Cho, David Z. Pan, “Dealing with IC Manufacturability in Extreme Scaling”, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), pp. 240–242, San Jose, Nov. 5–8, 2012. (paper) (Embedded Tutorial paper)


2011

2010

2009



Books / Book Chapters

 

[B4] Haoyu Yang, Yibo Lin, Bei Yu, “Machine Learning for Mask Synthesis and Verification”, in Machine Learning Applications in Electronic Design Automation, Mark Ren eds., Springer, 2022. (paper)

 

[B3] Shiyan Hu, Bei Yu, “Big Data Analytics for Cyber-Physical Systems”, Springer, 2020.

 

[B2] Bei Yu, David Z. Pan, “Design for Manufacturability with Advanced Lithography”, Springer, 2016.

 

[B1] Bei Yu, David Z. Pan, “Layout Decomposition for Triple Patterning”, in Encyclopedia of Algorithms, M.-Y. Kao eds., Springer, 2015. (paper)


Dissertation

Newsletters

  • [N2] Bei Yu, Gilda Garreton, David Z. Pan, “Layout Compliance for Triple Patterning Lithography: An Iterative Approach”, SPIE Newsroom.