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A Controlled Diagnostic Study of Hardware-Induced Distortions in Hardware-Aware Training

arXiv:2605.09416v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hardware-aware training (HAT) is widely used to improve the robustness of neural networks on non-ideal AI accelerators, such as analog in-memory computi

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Arch: An AI-Native Hardware Description Language for Register-Transfer Clocked Hardware Design

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arXiv:2604.05983v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present Arch (AI-native Register-transfer Clocked Hardware), a hardware description language for micro-architecture specification and AI-as

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21 Apr 2026

ViBE: Co-Optimizing Workload Skew and Hardware Variability for MoE Serving

arXiv:2606.00735v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In distributed Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) inference, input-dependent token routing interacts with GPU performance variability to create persistent strag

2 Jun 2026

Machines that know they are aging: a framework for hardware-aware autonomous intelligence

arXiv:2607.28451v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous systems inevitably age, yet their artificial intelligence typically assumes hardware remains in its original condition. Batteries degrade, se

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31 Jul 2026

Scalable On-Hardware Training of Quantum Neural Networks and Application to Clinical Data Imputation

arXiv:2606.03517v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Training quantum neural networks (QNNs) on quantum hardware is currently bottlenecked by the cost of gradient estimation: standard parameter-shift met

3 Jun 2026

LLMs for Secure Hardware Design and Related Problems: Opportunities and Challenges

arXiv:2605.10807v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into Electronic Design Automation (EDA) and hardware security is rapidly reshaping the semiconductor i

RainFusion2.0: Temporal-Spatial Awareness and Hardware-Efficient Block-wise Sparse Attention

arXiv:2512.24086v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In video and image generation tasks, Diffusion Transformer (DiT) models incur extremely high computational costs due to attention mechanisms, which

21 Apr 2026

Statevector-Referenced Geometry Survival of a Four-Qubit ZZ Quantum Kernel on IBM Quantum Hardware: A Fixed-Subset Diagnostic Across Three Execution Configurations

arXiv:2607.20377v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quantum-kernel methods encode a dataset's geometry in a Gram matrix, so learning claims on hardware kernels assume the intended geometry survives exec

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23 Jul 2026

Hardware-Oriented Inference Complexity of Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks

arXiv:2604.03345v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) have recently emerged as a powerful architecture for various machine learning applications. However, their unique

24 Jun 2026

Local Ai

Is Agentic AI Ready for Real-World Hardware Engineering? A Deep Dive with Phoenix-bench

arXiv:2605.15226v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We ask whether agentic AI systems built for software engineering transfer to realistic hardware engineering. Existing hardware LLM benchmarks isolate

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18 May 2026

FPGA-Based Hardware Architecture for Contrast Maximization in Event-Based Vision

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arXiv:2605.09581v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a hardware architecture that implements the Contrast Maximization (CM) algorithm in Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) resources f

Hardware-Efficient FPGA Implementation of Sigmoid Function Using Mixed-Radix Hyperbolic Rotation CORDIC

arXiv:2604.23547v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Efficient hardware implementation of nonlinear activation functions is a crucial task in deploying artificial neural networks on resource-constrained

28 Apr 2026

Focus Session: Hardware and Software Techniques for Accelerating Multimodal Foundation Models

arXiv:2604.21952v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This work presents a multi-layered methodology for efficiently accelerating multimodal foundation models (MFMs). It combines hardware and software co-

27 Apr 2026

Hardware Utilization and Inference Performance of Edge Object Detection Under Fault Injection

arXiv:2604.09631v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As deep learning models are deployed on resource constrained edge platforms in autonomous driving systems, reli able knowledge of hardware behavior un

14 Apr 2026

Generative Models on Analog Hardware with Dynamics

arXiv:2606.27294v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Analog hardware platforms such as coupled oscillators and Analog Ising Machines naturally solve differential equations at a fraction of the energy cos

26 Jun 2026

Quantum Cinema: An Interactive Cinematic Exploration of Quantum Computing Hardware via Generative World Models

arXiv:2606.17102v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Quantum computing promises transformative advances across science and industry, yet the physical hardware that enables these computations rema

24 Jun 2026

FP8 is All You Need (Part 1): Debunking Hardware FP64 as the HPC Holy Grail

arXiv:2606.06510v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conventional HPC dogma holds that native hardware FP64 silicon is the irreducible foundation of scientific computing -- the 'holy grail' of double-pre

8 Jun 2026

Explainability Methods for Hardware Trojan Detection: A Systematic Comparison

arXiv:2601.18696v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Hardware trojans are malicious circuits which compromise the functionality and security of an integrated circuit (IC). These circuits are manufactur

21 May 2026

Octopus Protocol: One-Shot Hardware Discovery and Control for AI Agents via Infrastructure-as-Prompts

arXiv:2605.09055v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent agentic-robotics systems, from Code-asPolicies to modern vision-language-action (VLA) foundation models, presuppose that drivers, SDKs, or ROS-

ViM-Q: Scalable Algorithm-Hardware Co-Design for Vision Mamba Model Inference on FPGA

arXiv:2605.01935v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision Mamba (ViM) models offer a compelling efficiency advantage over Transformers by leveraging the linear complexity of State Space Models (SSMs),

5 May 2026

Agent Factories for High Level Synthesis: How Far Can General-Purpose Coding Agents Go in Hardware Optimization?

arXiv:2603.25719v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present an empirical study of how far general-purpose coding agents -- without hardware-specific training -- can optimize hardware designs

4 May 2026

Algorithm and Hardware Co-Design for Efficient Complex-Valued Uncertainty Estimation

arXiv:2604.19993v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Complex-Valued Neural Networks (CVNNs) have significant advantages in handling tasks that involve complex numbers. However, existing CVNNs are unable

23 Apr 2026

Robust Reasoning and Learning with Brain-Inspired Representations under Hardware-Induced Nonlinearities

arXiv:2604.12079v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Traditional machine learning depends on high-precision arithmetic and near-ideal hardware assumptions, which is increasingly challenged by variability

15 Apr 2026

AEG: A Baremetal Framework for AI Acceleration via Direct Hardware Access in Heterogeneous Accelerators

arXiv:2604.09565v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper introduces a unified, hardware-independent baremetal runtime architecture designed to enable high-performance machine learning (ML) inferen

14 Apr 2026

On the Performance of Malware Detection Classifiers Using Hardware Performance Counters

arXiv:2608.02671v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Malware detection using Hardware Performance Counters (HPC) has emerged as a promising solution to improve the security of computing systems as a comp

5 Aug 2026

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PUDA: An AI-Native Hardware Harness for Self-Driving Laboratories

arXiv:2607.26464v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Physical Unified Device Architecture (PUDA) is an AI-native hardware harness for self-driving laboratories (SDLs). Rather than building a human-center

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31 Jul 2026

Message Passing Based Two-Timescale Bayesian Learning for Joint Channel and Memory Hardware Impairments Tracking

arXiv:2607.01660v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hardware impairments in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) receivers introduce inter-symbol memory and inter-element coupling, severely degra

3 Jul 2026

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Lie Group Diffusion Models for Hardware-Aware Quantum Circuit Synthesis

arXiv:2606.29636v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: An important task in quantum computing is unitary circuit synthesis compatible with physical hardware constraints. This problem has a natural hybrid s

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30 Jun 2026

Smart Timing for Mining: A Deep Learning Framework for Bitcoin Hardware ROI Prediction

arXiv:2512.05402v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Bitcoin mining hardware acquisition requires strategic timing due to volatile markets, rapid technological obsolescence, and protocol-driven r

26 May 2026

Local Ai

Hardware-Aware Neural Feature Extraction for Resource-Constrained Devices

arXiv:2605.04282v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual SLAM is a core component of spatial computing systems, yet deploying learned local feature extractors on microcontroller-class hardware remains c

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7 May 2026

Physical Foundation Models: Fixed hardware implementations of large-scale neural networks

arXiv:2604.27911v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Foundation models are deep neural networks (such as GPT-5, Gemini~3, and Opus~4) trained on large datasets that can perform diverse downstream tasks --

1 May 2026

HWE-Bench: Benchmarking LLM Agents on Real-World Hardware Bug Repair Tasks

arXiv:2604.14709v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Existing benchmarks for hardware design primarily evaluate Large Language Models (LLMs) on isolated, component-level tasks such as generating HDL mo

24 Apr 2026

LAUDE: LLM-Assisted Unit Test Generation and Debugging of Hardware DEsigns

arXiv:2601.08856v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Unit tests are critical in the hardware design lifecycle to ensure that component design modules are functionally correct and conform to the s

11 Aug 2026

Overcoming Data Scarcity and Confidentiality in Hardware Assurance via Synthetic Generation

arXiv:2608.09914v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hardware assurance relies on scanning electron microscopy (SEM) to verify nanoscale structures, but assembling the large, high-quality datasets requir

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11 Aug 2026

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Evaluating Forecasting Techniques for Hardware Errors on a Large-scale HPC System

arXiv:2608.01648v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hardware error logs in high-performance computing (HPC) systems provide early signals of abnormal behavior, yet there remain challenges in effectively f

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4 Aug 2026

MDTransformer: A Hardware-Software Co-Design of Mode-Division Photonic Transformer Accelerator with Inverse-Designed Coherent Crossbar

arXiv:2607.26016v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recently, photonic transformer accelerators (PTAs) have successfully achieved significant speedup and energy efficiency improvements over electronic a

29 Jul 2026

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QANTIS: Hardware-Calibrated Sequential POMDP Belief Updates on IBM Heron

arXiv:2607.06760v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous systems under partial observability act on beliefs, not raw sensor events. QANTIS treats the quantum processor as a calibrated belief-update

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9 Jul 2026

Lyapunov-Guided Training for Hardware-Safe Neural Networks Under Fixed-Point Arithmetic

arXiv:2607.04531v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Low-precision neural networks are attractive for resource-constrained hardware, but fixed-point arithmetic introduces failure modes that are often hid

7 Jul 2026

Applications

Hawk: Harnessing Hardware-Aware Knowledge for High-Performance NPU Kernel Generation

arXiv:2607.01590v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Developing high-performance kernels for Neural Processing Units (NPUs) is a critical industry bottleneck, requiring developers to manually navigate impl

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3 Jul 2026

Agentic Hardware Design as Repository-Level Code Evolution

arXiv:2606.28279v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present HORIZON, a self-evolving agent framework that treats hardware design as repository-level code evolution. A Markdown harness is compiled int

29 Jun 2026

Enhancing Co-packaging Optics Enabled Silicon Photonics Security Assurance Hardware Fingerprinting

arXiv:2606.27612v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Silicon photonics enables integration of optical components using standard semiconductor processes, greatly improving data communication bandwidth and

29 Jun 2026

PEBRE: An Open-Hardware Compute and Perception Add-On for the Pepper Robot

arXiv:2606.12112v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents the design, development, and experimental verification of PEBRE, an open-hardware add-on for fast software development on the Pepper

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11 Jun 2026

Hardware-aware Low-latency Quantum Compilation with Data-driven Lightweight Error Detection for Early Fault-Tolerant Systems

arXiv:2606.07666v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) processors are entering an early fault-tolerance regime where full quantum error correction carries prohibitiv

9 Jun 2026

Learning Quantized Continuous Controllers for Integer Hardware

arXiv:2511.07046v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deploying continuous-control reinforcement learning policies on embedded hardware requires meeting tight latency and power budgets. Small FPGA

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9 Jun 2026

LLMForge: Multi-Backend Hardware-Aware Neural Architecture Search with Infinite-Head Attention for Edge Language Models

arXiv:2605.17653v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sub-billion-parameter Transformer language models are increasingly deployed on edge devices, where the privacy, latency, and operating-cost advantages

19 May 2026

Robust and Safe Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Communication for Autonomous Vehicles: From Simulation to Hardware

arXiv:2506.00982v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Deep multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has been demonstrated effectively in simulations for multi-robot problems. For autonomous vehicles, t

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14 May 2026

DeepFedNAS: Efficient Hardware-Aware Architecture Adaptation for Heterogeneous IoT Federations via Pareto-Guided Supernet Training

arXiv:2601.15127v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deploying federated learning across heterogeneous IoT device fleets requires tailored neural network architectures for each device class, yet

11 May 2026

SwiftChannel: Algorithm-Hardware Co-Design for Deep Learning-Based 5G Channel Estimation

arXiv:2605.01931v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Channel estimation is crucial in 5G communication networks for optimizing transmission parameters and ensuring reliable, high-speed communication. How