ARDCNANAJun 30

PEERS: A Parallel and Exact Effective Resistance Solver via Implicit Inversion and Augmented Symbolic Analysis

arXiv:2606.315351.6
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Provides the first computationally feasible exact all-edge resistance solver for multi-million-gate industrial EDA sign-off, addressing a critical bottleneck in power grid analysis.

PEERS solves the precision-memory impasse in exact effective resistance computation for large-scale power grids, achieving 83.3x average speedup over state-of-the-art parallel solvers and processing a 1-million-node graph in 18.8 seconds.

High-precision effective resistance computation is a cornerstone of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) sign-off, yet it remains a fundamental bottleneck in large-scale power grid analysis, spectral sparsification, and circuit reliability. Existing approaches face a prohibitive "precision-memory impasse": approximate methods lack the stringent accuracy required for high-stakes industrial sign-off, while exact methods either suffer from redundant query overheads or trigger $O(n^2)$ memory explosions. To resolve this, we propose PEERS, a Parallel and Exact Effective Resistance Solver powered by an implicit inverse computing model of the Cholesky factor. By integrating a state-inherited augmented depth-first search (DFS) with a dynamic query update mechanism, PEERS eliminates numerical redundancy and evaluates all-edge resistance queries in a single parallel sweep. We provide a rigorous Work-Span analysis, proving that for graphs satisfying an $O(n^α)$ separator theorem, PEERS achieves a theoretically optimal parallel span of $O(n^α)$ while strictly maintaining $O(nnz(L))$ space complexity. Numerical evaluations on industrial benchmarks demonstrate that PEERS achieves an average speedup of 83.3x over state-of-the-art parallel solvers under identical memory constraints. Notably, PEERS processes a 1-million-node industrial graph in just 18.8 seconds and scales to 17 million nodes in under an hour, providing the first computationally feasible path for exact all-edge resistance analysis in multi-million-gate designs.

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