CONSTRUCTA: Automating Commercial Construction Schedules in Fabrication Facilities with Large Language Models
This addresses the challenge of manual intervention in scheduling for commercial construction, specifically in semiconductor fabrication, representing a domain-specific incremental advancement.
The paper tackles the problem of automating complex construction schedules in commercial fabrication facilities by proposing CONSTRUCTA, a framework using large language models, which achieved performance improvements of +42.3% in missing value prediction, +79.1% in dependency analysis, and +28.9% in automated planning compared to baselines.
Automating planning with LLMs presents transformative opportunities for traditional industries, yet remains underexplored. In commercial construction, the complexity of automated scheduling often requires manual intervention to ensure precision. We propose CONSTRUCTA, a novel framework leveraging LLMs to optimize construction schedules in complex projects like semiconductor fabrication. CONSTRUCTA addresses key challenges by: (1) integrating construction-specific knowledge through static RAG; (2) employing context-sampling techniques inspired by architectural expertise to provide relevant input; and (3) deploying Construction DPO to align schedules with expert preferences using RLHF. Experiments on proprietary data demonstrate performance improvements of +42.3% in missing value prediction, +79.1% in dependency analysis, and +28.9% in automated planning compared to baseline methods, showcasing its potential to revolutionize construction workflows and inspire domain-specific LLM advancements.