A Meta-Generation framework for Industrial System Generation
This addresses a problem for industrial designers and engineers by providing a benchmark and improved model for generative design, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing deep generative methods.
The paper tackled the lack of accessible benchmarks and the inability of vanilla deep generative models to accurately generate multi-component industrial systems with latent design constraints, by proposing an industry-inspired use case as a benchmark and a Meta-VAE that produces such systems.
Generative design is an increasingly important tool in the industrial world. It allows the designers and engineers to easily explore vast ranges of design options, providing a cheaper and faster alternative to the trial and failure approaches. Thanks to the flexibility they offer, Deep Generative Models are gaining popularity amongst Generative Design technologies. However, developing and evaluating these models can be challenging. The field lacks accessible benchmarks, in order to evaluate and compare objectively different Deep Generative Models architectures. Moreover, vanilla Deep Generative Models appear to be unable to accurately generate multi-components industrial systems that are controlled by latent design constraints. To address these challenges, we propose an industry-inspired use case that incorporates actual industrial system characteristics. This use case can be quickly generated and used as a benchmark. We propose a Meta-VAE capable of producing multi-component industrial systems and showcase its application on the proposed use case.