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Boundary representation (B-rep) of geometric models is a fundamental format in Computer-Aided Design (CAD). However, automatically generating valid and high-quality B-rep models remains challenging due to the complex interdependence between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Jing Li , Yihang Fu , Falai Chen

Boundary Representation (B-Rep) is the widely adopted standard in Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and manufacturing. However, generative modeling of B-Reps remains a formidable challenge due to their inherent heterogeneity as geometric cell…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Junran Lu , Yuanqi Li , Hengji Li , Jie Guo , Yanwen Guo

This paper presents BrepGen, a diffusion-based generative approach that directly outputs a Boundary representation (B-rep) Computer-Aided Design (CAD) model. BrepGen represents a B-rep model as a novel structured latent geometry in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Xiang Xu , Joseph G. Lambourne , Pradeep Kumar Jayaraman , Zhengqing Wang , Karl D. D. Willis , Yasutaka Furukawa

In recent years, the transformer architecture has become the de facto standard for machine learning algorithms applied to natural language processing and computer vision. Despite notable evidence of successful deployment of this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Carmelo Sferrazza , Dun-Ming Huang , Fangchen Liu , Jongmin Lee , Pieter Abbeel

Real-world graphs naturally exhibit hierarchical or cyclical structures that are unfit for the typical Euclidean space. While there exist graph neural networks that leverage hyperbolic or spherical spaces to learn representations that embed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Sungjun Cho , Seunghyuk Cho , Sungwoo Park , Hankook Lee , Honglak Lee , Moontae Lee

BERT, which stands for Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers, is a recently introduced language representation model based upon the transfer learning paradigm. We extend its fine-tuning procedure to address one of its…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Raghavendra Pappagari , Piotr Żelasko , Jesús Villalba , Yishay Carmiel , Najim Dehak

Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) reach state-of-the-art results in a variety of Natural Language Processing tasks. However, understanding of their internal functioning is still insufficient and unsatisfactory.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Betty van Aken , Benjamin Winter , Alexander Löser , Felix A. Gers

We introduce a new language representation model called BERT, which stands for Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers. Unlike recent language representation models, BERT is designed to pre-train deep bidirectional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Jacob Devlin , Ming-Wei Chang , Kenton Lee , Kristina Toutanova

We propose a masked self-supervised learning framework, called BRepMAE, for automatically extracting a valuable representation of the input computer-aided design (CAD) model to recognize its machining features. Representation learning is…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Can Yao , Kang Wu , Zuheng Zheng , Siyuan Xing , Xiao-Ming Fu

The Transformer model is widely successful on many natural language processing tasks. However, the quadratic complexity of self-attention limit its application on long text. In this paper, adopting a fine-to-coarse attention mechanism on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Zihao Ye , Qipeng Guo , Quan Gan , Xipeng Qiu , Zheng Zhang

Previous researches of sketches often considered sketches in pixel format and leveraged CNN based models in the sketch understanding. Fundamentally, a sketch is stored as a sequence of data points, a vector format representation, rather…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Hangyu Lin , Yanwei Fu , Yu-Gang Jiang , Xiangyang Xue

Transformer models bring propelling advances in various NLP tasks, thus inducing lots of interpretability research on the learned representations of the models. However, we raise a fundamental question regarding the reliability of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Yuxin Ren , Qipeng Guo , Zhijing Jin , Shauli Ravfogel , Mrinmaya Sachan , Bernhard Schölkopf , Ryan Cotterell

Visual reinforcement learning has proven effective in solving control tasks with high-dimensional observations. However, extracting reliable and generalizable representations from vision-based observations remains a central challenge.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Xiaobo Hu , Youfang Lin , Yue Liu , Jinwen Wang , Shuo Wang , Hehe Fan , Kai Lv

Performing machine learning on structured data is complicated by the fact that such data does not have vectorial form. Therefore, multiple approaches have emerged to construct vectorial representations of structured data, from kernel and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Benjamin Paaßen , Claudio Gallicchio , Alessio Micheli , Alessandro Sperduti

Segmentation of ultra-high resolution (UHR) images is a critical task with numerous applications, yet it poses significant challenges due to high spatial resolution and rich fine details. Recent approaches adopt a dual-branch architecture,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Haopeng Sun , Yingwei Zhang , Lumin Xu , Sheng Jin , Yiqiang Chen

Generalizable neural surface reconstruction techniques have attracted great attention in recent years. However, they encounter limitations of low confidence depth distribution and inaccurate surface reasoning due to the oversimplified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Yixun Liang , Hao He , Ying-cong Chen

The success of Transformer-based models has encouraged many researchers to learn CAD models using sequence-based approaches. However, learning CAD models is still a challenge, because they can be represented as complex shapes with long…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Minseop Jung , Minseong Kim , Jibum Kim

Boundary representation (B-rep) is the de facto standard for modern CAD, yet learning-based B-rep synthesis remains challenging due to the tight coupling between discrete topology and continuous geometry. We observe a fundamental asymmetry…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Jing Li , Yihang Fu , Falai Chen

Recent neural heuristics for the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) primarily rely on node coordinates as input, which may be less effective in practical scenarios where real cost metrics-such as edge-based distances-are more relevant. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Dian Meng , Zhiguang Cao , Yaoxin Wu , Yaqing Hou , Hongwei Ge , Qiang Zhang

Parametric CAD models, represented as Boundary Representations (B-reps), are foundational to modern design and manufacturing workflows, offering the precision and topological breakdown required for downstream tasks such as analysis,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-08 James Noeckel , Benjamin Jones , Adriana Schulz , Brian Curless