Semiconductor Engineering3 July 202618h ago

LLM Agents To Refactor Software For High Level Synthesis (Carnegie Mellon, UCLA)

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and UCLA published a technical paper titled “AgRefactor: Self-Evolving Agentic Workflow for HLS Compatibility and Performance.” The paper introduces an “LLM-based multi-agent workflow for refactoring software into HLS-compatible programs” and reports a 6.51× geometric mean speedup over a state-of-the-art pragma tuning tool. Find the technical paper here

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