让大模型在EDA调参中持续学习,自动优化电路设计结果。
StateTune: Transforming LLM-Assisted EDA Flow Tuning into a Stateful, Closed-Loop Process

- 用可持久存储的智能记忆闭环管理调参过程,提升决策连贯性。
- 在六个工业级电路块上全面优于其他方法,关键指标平均提升超58%。
- 适合芯片设计团队、自动化工具开发者快速获得高质量电路方案。
EDA流程参数调优对设计质量至关重要,但参数空间庞大、耦合紧密,全量评估成本极高。以往基于大模型的调参器多作为外部提议者,工作上下文短暂;本文提出StateTune,将调参重构为带状态的闭环过程。其优化器状态为类型化、证据约束的持久化优化记忆,每次评估后更新并用于候选生成与预算分配。在此基础上,采用期望超体积改进(EHVI)引导、运行时感知的晋升策略,按单位运行时间成本衡量帕累托前沿提升。在Cadence工业流程上对六个基准电路块(两工艺节点×三设计)测试,相比五种基线(包括LLM+RAG和偏好型贝叶斯优化),StateTune在全部六块上均取得最佳最终超体积,且前沿质量稳定领先;在最差负时序(WNS)、面积、功耗等指标上也达到或超越最强基线。消融实验表明持久记忆贡献最大:移除后超体积损失达58.5%。对证据门控敏感性、记忆污染、跨设计迁移及三种子重复性(五块CV<7%)的分析进一步验证了记忆设计的有效性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
EDA flow parameter tuning is critical for quality-of-results~(QoR), yet the parameter space is large, tightly coupled, and full evaluations are prohibitively expensive. Prior LLM-assisted tuners mainly use the LLM as an external proposer with transient working context; we instead present \textbf{StateTune}, which reformulates LLM-assisted EDA tuning as a closed-loop, state-carrying process. Its optimizer state is a typed, evidence-gated \emph{persistent optimization memory} that is updated by every evaluation and shared between candidate generation and budget allocation. On top of this optimizer state, an expected hypervolume improvement (EHVI)-guided, runtime-aware promotion policy ranks quick-stage candidates by expected Pareto frontier gain per unit of runtime cost. Evaluated on a Cadence industrial flow across six benchmark blocks (two technology nodes \(\times\) three designs), against five baselines including LLM+retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and preference-based Bayesian optimization (BO) tuners, StateTune achieves the strongest final hypervolume on all six benchmark blocks, showing a stable improvement in frontier quality across the full matrix; it also matches or surpasses the strongest baselines on worst negative slack (WNS), area, and power across the same set. Ablation shows persistent memory is the largest contributor: removing it costs 58.5\% of the hypervolume. Dedicated analyses of evidence-gating sensitivity, memory poisoning, cross-design transfer, and three-seed reproducibility (CV\,\(<\)\,7\% on five of six blocks) further validate the memory design.
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