Generative models are now used to create a variety of high-quality digital artifacts. Yet their use in designing physical objects has received far less attention. In this paper, we advocate for the construction toy, LEGO, as a platform for developing generative models of sequential assembly. We develop a generative model based on graph-structured neural networks that can learn from human-built structures and produce visually compelling designs. Our code is released at: https://github.com/uoguelph-mlrg/GenerativeLEGO.
@article{arxiv.2012.11543,
title = {Building LEGO Using Deep Generative Models of Graphs},
author = {Rylee Thompson and Elahe Ghalebi and Terrance DeVries and Graham W. Taylor},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.11543},
year = {2020}
}