Boundary representation learning via Transformer

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.07134v1
• Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2025 07:04:02 GMT
• Title: Boundary representation learning via Transformer
• Authors: Qiang Zou, Lizhen Zhu,
• Abstract summary: This paper introduces Boundary Representation Transformer (BRT), a novel method adapting Transformer for B-rep learning.<n>BRT achieves state-of-the-art performance in part classification and feature recognition tasks.
• Score: 0.6906005491572401
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: 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 computer-aided design (CAD), particularly for processing boundary representation (B-rep) models, remains largely unexplored. To bridge this gap, this paper introduces Boundary Representation Transformer (BRT), a novel method adapting Transformer for B-rep learning. B-rep models pose unique challenges due to their irregular topology and continuous geometric definitions, which are fundamentally different from the structured and discrete data Transformers are designed for. To address this, BRT proposes a continuous geometric embedding method that encodes B-rep surfaces (trimmed and untrimmed) into B\'ezier triangles, preserving their shape and continuity without discretization. Additionally, BRT employs a topology-aware embedding method that organizes these geometric embeddings into a sequence of discrete tokens suitable for Transformers, capturing both geometric and topological characteristics within B-rep models. This enables the Transformer's attention mechanism to effectively learn shape patterns and contextual semantics of boundary elements in a B-rep model. Extensive experiments demonstrate that BRT achieves state-of-the-art performance in part classification and feature recognition tasks.

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