VerilogMonkey: Exploring Parallel Scaling for Automated Verilog Code Generation with LLMs

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Main Authors: Niu, Juxin, Du, Yuxin, Niu, Dan, Wang, Xi, Jiang, Zhe, Guan, Nan
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author Niu, Juxin
Du, Yuxin
Niu, Dan
Wang, Xi
Jiang, Zhe
Guan, Nan
author_facet Niu, Juxin
Du, Yuxin
Niu, Dan
Wang, Xi
Jiang, Zhe
Guan, Nan
contents We present VerilogMonkey, an empirical study of parallel scaling for the under-explored task of automated Verilog generation. Parallel scaling improves LLM performance by sampling many outputs in parallel. Across multiple benchmarks and mainstream LLMs, we find that scaling to hundreds of samples is cost-effective in both time and money and, even without any additional enhancements such as post-training or agentic methods, surpasses prior results on LLM-based Verilog generation. We further dissect why parallel scaling delivers these gains and show how output randomness in LLMs affects its effectiveness.
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spellingShingle VerilogMonkey: Exploring Parallel Scaling for Automated Verilog Code Generation with LLMs
Niu, Juxin
Du, Yuxin
Niu, Dan
Wang, Xi
Jiang, Zhe
Guan, Nan
Programming Languages
Hardware Architecture
We present VerilogMonkey, an empirical study of parallel scaling for the under-explored task of automated Verilog generation. Parallel scaling improves LLM performance by sampling many outputs in parallel. Across multiple benchmarks and mainstream LLMs, we find that scaling to hundreds of samples is cost-effective in both time and money and, even without any additional enhancements such as post-training or agentic methods, surpasses prior results on LLM-based Verilog generation. We further dissect why parallel scaling delivers these gains and show how output randomness in LLMs affects its effectiveness.
title VerilogMonkey: Exploring Parallel Scaling for Automated Verilog Code Generation with LLMs
topic Programming Languages
Hardware Architecture
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16246