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Our proposed framework leverages image classification techniques to model IR drop prediction as a spatial pattern recognition task, effectively addressing the long-tail distribution in different regions. To enhance hotspot prediction, we incorporate wavelet transform and transformer-based analysis to enable multiscale feature fusion. In the open-source CircuitNet dataset, our method predicts static IR drop with a mean absolute error(\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">MAE<\/jats:italic>\n                    ) of 0.374\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">mV<\/jats:italic>\n                    and a maximum error rate(\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">\n                      Err\n                      <jats:sub>m<\/jats:sub>\n                    <\/jats:italic>\n                    ) of 18.7%, reducing\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">MAE<\/jats:italic>\n                    and\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">\n                      Err\n                      <jats:sub>m<\/jats:sub>\n                    <\/jats:italic>\n                    by 77.4% and 79.2%, respectively, compared to the state-of-the-art method, all within 100 ms. The congestion prediction evaluations show 65.3% lower NRMSE scores and 18.4% higher SSIM scores relative to the existing SOTA approach. 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