ARES: Adaptive Reasoning-Effort Steering for PPA- and Cost-Aware RTL Optimization with LLM Agents

arXiv:2607.27879 · cs.AR, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-07-30 · Read on arXiv

cs.AR, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-07-30

Updated: 2026-10-22

Terminology

• Adaptive Reasoning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Language Model (LLM) — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Steering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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