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Ziyue Wang¹, Yichen Yang², Jianning Chu³

¹School of Intelligent Manufacturing, Jianghan University, Wuhan 430056, China.

|January 28, 2026

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This study introduces YOLO-LA, a vision-language framework for wafer defect recognition. It enhances accuracy by combining visual patterns with defect descriptions, improving semiconductor manufacturing yield.

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Area of Science:

Semiconductor Manufacturing
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision

Background:

Semiconductor manufacturing requires precise process control to reduce variation and enhance yield.
Wafer defect pattern recognition is crucial for identifying root causes.
Current vision-based deep learning methods for defect recognition lack interpretability and generalization due to underutilization of semantic defect information.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a lightweight vision-language alignment framework (YOLO-LA) for improved wafer defect recognition.
To enhance the interpretability and generalization of defect recognition models by integrating visual and textual data.
To improve the accuracy and efficiency of semiconductor manufacturing processes through better defect analysis.

Main Methods:

Proposed YOLO-LA, a framework integrating a frozen YOLO backbone and a frozen text encoder.
Introduced a learnable projection head to map visual features into a shared embedding space for cosine similarity-based classification.
Utilized prototype-based vision-language alignment to leverage semantic information from defect descriptions.

Main Results:

YOLO-LA consistently improved classification accuracy across various YOLO backbones on the WM-811K dataset.
The framework introduced minimal additional parameters, maintaining a lightweight profile.
YOLOv12 demonstrated the fastest inference speed with competitive accuracy, while YOLOv10 showed significant gains from semantic alignment.

Conclusions:

The proposed YOLO-LA framework effectively enhances wafer defect recognition by integrating visual and semantic information.
The lightweight and efficient design makes YOLO-LA suitable for real-time industrial wafer inspection systems.
Leveraging vision-language alignment offers a promising direction for improving interpretability and generalization in defect analysis for semiconductor manufacturing.