An attempt to generate new bridge types from latent space of PixelCNN
This is an incremental application of existing generative AI methods to a domain-specific problem in bridge design.
The paper tackled the problem of generating novel bridge types by training a PixelCNN model on a dataset of symmetric bridge images, resulting in the creation of new bridge designs that combine structural components from the original types.
Try to generate new bridge types using generative artificial intelligence technology. Using symmetric structured image dataset of three-span beam bridge, arch bridge, cable-stayed bridge and suspension bridge , based on Python programming language, TensorFlow and Keras deep learning platform framework , PixelCNN is constructed and trained. The model can capture the statistical structure of the images and calculate the probability distribution of the next pixel when the previous pixels are given. From the obtained latent space sampling, new bridge types different from the training dataset can be generated. PixelCNN can organically combine different structural components on the basis of human original bridge types, creating new bridge types that have a certain degree of human original ability. Autoregressive models cannot understand the meaning of the sequence, while multimodal models combine regression and autoregressive models to understand the sequence. Multimodal models should be the way to achieve artificial general intelligence in the future.