Saarthi: The First AI Formal Verification Engineer
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Abstract (arXiv)
Recently, Devin has made a significant buzz in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) community as the world's first fully autonomous AI software engineer, capable of independently developing software code. Devin uses the concept of agentic workflow in Generative AI (GenAI), which empowers AI agents to engage in a more dynamic, iterative, and self-reflective process. In this paper, we present a similar fully autonomous AI formal verification engineer, Saarthi, capable of verifying a given RTL design end-to-end using an agentic workflow. With Saarthi, verification engineers can focus on more complex problems, and verification teams can strive for more ambitious goals. The domain-agnostic implementation of Saarthi makes it scalable for use across various domains such as RTL design, UVM-based verification, and others.
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Citing papers per year: 2025: 4; 2026: 4.
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- 2025AgentGuard: Runtime Verification of AI Agentscited by 17
- 2025VeruSAGE: A Study of Agent-Based Verification for Rust Systemscited by 12
- 2025ProofWright: Towards Agentic Formal Verification of CUDAcited by 9
- 2025FVDebug: An LLM-Driven Debugging Assistant for Automated Root Cause Analysis of Formal Verification Failurescited by 5
- 2026Knowledge Graphs, the Missing Link in Agentic AI-based Formal Verificationcited by 3
- 2026Saarthi for AGI: Towards Domain-Specific General Intelligence for Formal Verificationcited by 1
- 2026Agentic AI-based Coverage Closure for Formal Verificationcited by 0
- 2026A Survey on LLM-Integrated Hardware Design Verificationcited by 0
- 2026A Survey on LLM-Integrated Hardware Design Verification6 Oct 2026
- 2026Knowledge Graphs, the Missing Link in Agentic AI-based Formal Verification7 May 2026
- 2026Saarthi for AGI: Towards Domain-Specific General Intelligence for Formal Verification3 Mar 2026
- 2026Agentic AI-based Coverage Closure for Formal Verification3 Mar 2026
- 2025VeruSAGE: A Study of Agent-Based Verification for Rust Systems20 Dec 2025
- 2025ProofWright: Towards Agentic Formal Verification of CUDA15 Nov 2025
- 2025AgentGuard: Runtime Verification of AI Agents28 Sep 2025
- 2025FVDebug: An LLM-Driven Debugging Assistant for Automated Root Cause Analysis of Formal Verification Failures16 Sep 2025
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