--- title: Large Tabular Models Excel Where LLMs Fail | daily.dev description: Researchers at Princeton have developed an AI-driven framework for designing radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) from scratch, bypassing the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/large-tabular-models-excel-where-llms-fail-m4afd4hqb twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Large Tabular Models Excel Where LLMs Fail | daily.dev og:description: Researchers at Princeton have developed an AI-driven framework for designing radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) from scratch, bypassing the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/large-tabular-models-excel-where-llms-fail-m4afd4hqb og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/M4Afd4Hqb.png og:image:alt: Large Tabular Models Excel Where LLMs Fail og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Large Tabular Models Excel Where LLMs Fail **[IEEE Spectrum](https://daily.dev/sources/ieeespectrum)** · 19 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Researchers at Princeton have developed an AI-driven framework for designing radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) from scratch, bypassing the traditional reliance on human-crafted design templates. Using reinforcement learning to determine circuit architecture and topology, combined with a convolutional neural network-based electromagnetic emulator for inverse design, the system can produce fabrication-ready RFIC layouts in minutes rather than months. Prototype power amplifiers achieved record-setting performance across 5G and radar frequency bands with unconventional, non-human-like layouts. A diffusion model was also developed to allow designers to tune the interpretability of generated structures. The main remaining challenges are reducing AI hallucinations, maintaining human oversight for verification, and building open datasets of simulated RF circuits to train more generalizable foundation models. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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