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Main Authors: He, Jie, Kenbeek, Vincent Theo Willem, Yang, Zhantao, Qu, Meixun, Bartocci, Ezio, Ničković, Dejan, Grosu, Radu
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16844
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author He, Jie
Kenbeek, Vincent Theo Willem
Yang, Zhantao
Qu, Meixun
Bartocci, Ezio
Ničković, Dejan
Grosu, Radu
author_facet He, Jie
Kenbeek, Vincent Theo Willem
Yang, Zhantao
Qu, Meixun
Bartocci, Ezio
Ničković, Dejan
Grosu, Radu
contents We introduce TD-Interpreter, a specialized ML tool that assists engineers in understanding complex timing diagrams (TDs), originating from a third party, during their design and verification process. TD-Interpreter is a visual question-answer environment which allows engineers to input a set of TDs and ask design and verification queries regarding these TDs. We implemented TD-Interpreter with multimodal learning by fine-tuning LLaVA, a lightweight 7B Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM). To address limited training data availability, we developed a synthetic data generation workflow that aligns visual information with its textual interpretation. Our experimental evaluation demonstrates the usefulness of TD-Interpreter which outperformed untuned GPT-4o by a large margin on the evaluated benchmarks.
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spellingShingle TD-Interpreter: Enhancing the Understanding of Timing Diagrams with Visual-Language Learning
He, Jie
Kenbeek, Vincent Theo Willem
Yang, Zhantao
Qu, Meixun
Bartocci, Ezio
Ničković, Dejan
Grosu, Radu
Machine Learning
We introduce TD-Interpreter, a specialized ML tool that assists engineers in understanding complex timing diagrams (TDs), originating from a third party, during their design and verification process. TD-Interpreter is a visual question-answer environment which allows engineers to input a set of TDs and ask design and verification queries regarding these TDs. We implemented TD-Interpreter with multimodal learning by fine-tuning LLaVA, a lightweight 7B Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM). To address limited training data availability, we developed a synthetic data generation workflow that aligns visual information with its textual interpretation. Our experimental evaluation demonstrates the usefulness of TD-Interpreter which outperformed untuned GPT-4o by a large margin on the evaluated benchmarks.
title TD-Interpreter: Enhancing the Understanding of Timing Diagrams with Visual-Language Learning
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16844