EDA scripting with tool-specific, often undocumented APIs remains a long-tail bottleneck that existing LLMs fail to address. This paper presents ZhuLong, an execution-grounded LLM coding agent for PyAether and SKILL that combines API retrieval, documentation inspection, and sandbox execution via unified MCP tools, augmented by an offline API self-exploration mechanism that infers undocumented API behaviors through counterfactual experimentation. We evaluate ZhuLong on EDA-Eval-PyAether, a benchmark of 158 real-world tasks with assertion-based execution, where the complete system achieves 78.5% Pass@1 in the commercial Empyrean Aether environment, substantially outperforming a pure LLM baseline (23.6%). Ablation studies identify sandbox execution as the dominant performance driver (41.2 pp drop when removed), with the self-exploration mechanism contributing an additional 3.2 pp accuracy gain and a 22.1% reduction in per-task tool calls. On 20 interactive tasks involving unsaved layouts and schematics, ZhuLong achieves 60.0% Pass@1 for PyAether and 50.0% for SKILL.
GAOKAO-Bench is introduced, an intuitive benchmark that employs questions from the Chinese GAOKAO examination as test samples, including both subjective and objective questions that contribute a robust evaluation benchmark for future large language models and offers valuable insights into the advantages and limitations of such models.
Xiaotian Zhang, Chun-yan Li, Yi Zong et al.· arXiv.org· 216 citations· ⚡17
This work investigates the possibilities of using LLMs in a resume screening setting via a document retrieval framework that simulates job candidate selection and finds that the MTEs are biased, significantly favoring White-associated names in 85% of cases and female-associated names in only 11.1% of cases.
Empirically, PRISM reduces the end-to-end time for data selection and model tuning to just 30% of conventional pipelines, and achieves this efficiency while simultaneously enhancing performance, surpassing models fine-tuned on the full dataset across eight multimodal and three language understanding benchmarks.
Jinhe Bi, Yifan Wang, Danqi Yan et al.· arXiv.org· 73 citations· ⚡4
The method, ECCOLA, is presented, which aims at making the high-level AI ethics principles more practical, making it possible for developers to more easily implement them in practice.
Ville Vakkuri, Kai-Kristian Kemell, P. Abrahamsson· EUROMICRO Conference on Soft...· 64 citations· ⚡6
This paper designs Markov decision processes (MDPs) for different combinatorial problems and proposes to train conditional GFlowNets to sample from the solution space and demonstrates that GFlowNet policies can efficiently find high-quality solutions.
Dinghuai Zhang, H. Dai, Esmeralda S. Whitammer et al.· Advances in Neural Informati...· 59 citations· ⚡8
An empirical study on the current state of practice in artificial intelligence ethics is conducted by means of a multiple case study of five case companies, which indicates a gap between research and practice in the area.
Ville Vakkuri, Kai-Kristian Kemell, Joni Kultanen et al.· arXiv.org· 56 citations· ⚡6
