The remarkable progress of Large Language Models (LLMs) presents promising opportunities for Verilog code generation which is significantly important for automated circuit design. The lacking of meaningful functional rewards hinders the preference optimization based on Reinforcement Learning (RL) for producing functionally correct Verilog code. In this paper, we propose Signal-Aware Learning for Verilog code generation (QiMeng-SALV) by leveraging code segments of functionally correct output signal to optimize RL training. Considering Verilog code specifies the structural interconnection of hardware gates and wires so that different output signals are independent, the key insight of QiMeng-SALV is to extract verified signal-aware implementations in partially incorrect modules, so as to enhance the extraction of meaningful functional rewards. Roughly, we verify the functional correctness of signals in generated module by comparing with that of reference module in the training data. Then abstract syntax tree (AST) is employed to identify signal-aware code segments which can provide meaningful functional rewards from erroneous modules. Finally, we introduce signal-aware DPO which is optimized on the correct signal-level code segments, thereby preventing noise and interference from incorrect signals. The proposed QiMeng-SALV underscores the paradigm shift from conventional module-level to fine-grained signal-level optimization in Verilog code generation, addressing the issue of insufficient functional rewards. Experiments demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance on VerilogEval and RTLLM, with a 7B parameter model matching the performance of the DeepSeek v3 671B model and significantly outperforming the leading open-source model CodeV trained on the same dataset.

In the field of remote sensing image processing, clouds heavily affect the quality of the remote sensing images and their application potential. Thus, in recent years, with the prevalence of deep learning techniques used in the field of image processing, many methods have been proposed for cloud removal using single remote sensing images. The existing single-image cloud removal methods suffer from poor generalization capabilities that prevent them from being applied to diverse remote sensing images. Thus, a novel method using a multimodal architecture is proposed which provides multiple most likely outputs for the image and selects the best one through perception-based image quality evaluator (PIQE). In addition, adversarial consistency loss is used to replace cycle consistency loss, which encourages the model to retain more texture information of the original image, and thus the quality of the generated image increases. Experiments demonstrate that the presented method can easily achieve a considerable increase in the peak signal-to-noise ratio and the structural similarity index compared with other methods.