Intelligent Design 4.0: Paradigm Evolution Toward the Agentic AI Era

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09755v1
• Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2025 13:57:26 GMT
• Title: Intelligent Design 4.0: Paradigm Evolution Toward the Agentic AI Era
• Authors: Shuo Jiang, Min Xie, Frank Youhua Chen, Jian Ma, Jianxi Luo,
• Abstract summary: This paper introduces Intelligent Design 4.0 (ID 4.0) as an emerging paradigm empowered by agentic AI systems.<n>We propose a conceptual framework for ID 4.0 and discuss its potential to support end-to-end automation of engineering design processes.
• Score: 4.951704712538945
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Research and practice in Intelligent Design (ID) have significantly enhanced engineering innovation, efficiency, quality, and productivity over recent decades, fundamentally reshaping how engineering designers think, behave, and interact with design processes. The recent emergence of Foundation Models (FMs), particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), has demonstrated general knowledge-based reasoning capabilities, and open new paths and avenues for further transformation in engineering design. In this context, this paper introduces Intelligent Design 4.0 (ID 4.0) as an emerging paradigm empowered by agentic AI systems. We review the historical evolution of ID across four distinct stages: rule-based expert systems, task-specific machine learning models, large-scale foundation AI models, and the recent emerging paradigm of multi-agent collaboration. We propose a conceptual framework for ID 4.0 and discuss its potential to support end-to-end automation of engineering design processes through coordinated, autonomous multi-agent-based systems. Furthermore, we discuss future perspectives to enhance and fully realize ID 4.0's potential, including more complex design scenarios, more practical design implementations, novel agent coordination mechanisms, and autonomous design goal-setting with better human value alignment. In sum, these insights lay a foundation for advancing Intelligent Design toward greater adaptivity, autonomy, and effectiveness in addressing increasingly complex design challenges.

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