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Boundary Representation (B-Rep) is the de facto representation of 3D solids in Computer-Aided Design (CAD). B-Rep solids are defined with a set of NURBS (Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines) surfaces forming a closed volume. To represent a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Jiajie Fan , Babak Gholami , Thomas Bäck , Hao Wang

Many data-rich industries are interested in the efficient discovery and modelling of structures underlying large data sets, as it allows for the fast triage and dimension reduction of large volumes of data embedded in high dimensional…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-09-30 Yossi Bokor , Daniel Grixti-Cheng , Markus Hegland , Stephen Roberts , Katharine Turner

Graph embeddings play a critical role in graph representation learning, allowing machine learning models to explore and interpret graph-structured data. However, existing methods often rely on opaque, high-dimensional embeddings, limiting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Astrit Tola , Funmilola Mary Taiwo , Cuneyt Gurcan Akcora , Baris Coskunuzer

Graph generation generally aims to create new graphs that closely align with a specific graph distribution. Existing works often implicitly capture this distribution through the optimization of generators, potentially overlooking the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Song Wang , Zhen Tan , Xinyu Zhao , Tianlong Chen , Huan Liu , Jundong Li

The recent rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI), powered by Transformer networks, has achieved remarkable success in natural language processing, computer vision, and graphics. However, the application of Transformers in…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Qiang Zou , Lizhen Zhu

Boundary representation (B-rep) is the de facto standard for CAD model representation in modern industrial design. The intricate coupling between geometric and topological elements in B-rep structures has forced existing generative methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Pu Li , Wenhao Zhang , Weize Quan , Biao Zhang , Peter Wonka , Dong-Ming Yan

Graph generation is a critical yet challenging task, as empirical analyses require a deep understanding of complex, non-Euclidean structures. Diffusion models have recently made significant advances in graph generation, but these models are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Yiming Huang , Tolga Birdal

The design of man-made objects is dominated by computer aided design (CAD) tools. Assisting design with data-driven machine learning methods is hampered by lack of labeled data in CAD's native format; the parametric boundary representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Benjamin T. Jones , Michael Hu , Vladimir G. Kim , Adriana Schulz

We introduce UV-Net, a novel neural network architecture and representation designed to operate directly on Boundary representation (B-rep) data from 3D CAD models. The B-rep format is widely used in the design, simulation and manufacturing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Pradeep Kumar Jayaraman , Aditya Sanghi , Joseph G. Lambourne , Karl D. D. Willis , Thomas Davies , Hooman Shayani , Nigel Morris

Topology Optimization seeks to find the best design that satisfies a set of constraints while maximizing system performance. Traditional iterative optimization methods like SIMP can be computationally expensive and get stuck in local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Giorgio Giannone , Faez Ahmed

The reconstruction of X-rays CT images from sparse or limited-angle geometries is a highly challenging task. The lack of data typically results in artifacts in the reconstructed image and may even lead to object distortions. For this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Davide Evangelista , Pasquale Cascarano , Elena Loli Piccolomini

Diffusion models have made significant contributions to computer vision, sparking a growing interest in the community recently regarding the application of them to graph generation. Existing discrete graph diffusion models exhibit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Xingcheng Fu , Yisen Gao , Yuecen Wei , Qingyun Sun , Hao Peng , Jianxin Li , Xianxian Li

Text-to-CAD code generation is a long-horizon task that translates textual instructions into long sequences of interdependent operations. Existing methods typically decode text directly into executable code (e.g., bpy) without explicitly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Shengjie Gong , Wenjie Peng , Hongyuan Chen , Gangyu Zhang , Yunqing Hu , Huiyuan Zhang , Shuangping Huang , Tianshui Chen

The topological (or graph) structures of real-world networks are known to be predictive of multiple dynamic properties of the networks. Conventionally, a graph structure is represented using an adjacency matrix or a set of hand-crafted…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-10-21 Cheng Li , Xiaoxiao Guo , Qiaozhu Mei

Neural implicit representations are widely used for 3D shape modeling due to their smoothness and compactness, but traditional MLP-based methods struggle with sharp features, such as edges and corners in CAD models, and require long…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Guying Lin , Lei Yang , Congyi Zhang , Hao Pan , Yuhan Ping , Guodong Wei , Taku Komura , John Keyser , Wenping Wang

Previous representation and generation approaches for the B-rep relied on graph-based representations that disentangle geometric and topological features through decoupled computational pipelines, thereby precluding the application of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Jiahao Li , Yunpeng Bai , Yongkang Dai , Hao Guo , Hongping Gan , Yilei Shi

In this work, we propose a graph-adaptive pruning (GAP) method for efficient inference of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). In this method, the network is viewed as a computational graph, in which the vertices denote the computation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Mengdi Wang , Qing Zhang , Jun Yang , Xiaoyuan Cui , Wei Lin

Computer-aided design (CAD) models play a crucial role in the design, manufacturing and maintenance of products. Therefore, the mesh-based finite element descriptions common in structural optimisation must be first translated into CAD…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Ge Yin , Xiao Xiao , Fehmi Cirak

Diffusion-based voxel prior modelling is challenging for the reconstruction of large-scale 3D porous microstructures. Due to the demanding requirements for simultaneously modelling both the continuous pore morphology and the discrete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Yue Shi , Peng Wang , Mingzhe Yu , Yunlong Zhao , Li Liu , Gareth D Hatton , Yan Lyu , Liangxiu Han

With the emergence of graph databases, the task of frequent subgraph discovery has been extensively addressed. Although the proposed approaches in the literature have made this task feasible, the number of discovered frequent subgraphs is…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-08-16 Wajdi Dhifli , Mohamed Moussaoui , Rabie Saidi , Engelbert Mephu Nguifo