Exploring the latent space distribution of a graph autoencoder trained on 3D models of modernist architecture

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Názov: Exploring the latent space distribution of a graph autoencoder trained on 3D models of modernist architecture
Autori: Erik Bauscher, Thomas Wortmann
Zdroj: International Journal of Architectural Computing. 23:742-752
Informácie o vydavateľovi: SAGE Publications, 2025.
Rok vydania: 2025
Popis: Building on previous research in generative graph machine learning in architecture, this paper investigates how data generation and preparation can change the distribution of a model’s latent space and thus its generative qualities. Therefore, we first present and discuss our previous approach of applying generative graph machine learning in architecture by sampling the latent space of a graph autoencoder trained with the augmentations of four examples of modernist buildings. We then present a new method of data generation for modernist buildings in the style of architect Mies van der Rohe, which produces a large range of 3D building models with great geometric variety. Trained on the new dataset, the graph autoencoder shows a more continuous latent space, confirmed by visual comparison and by three spatial analysis algorithms that quantitatively assess the spatial structure of the different latent spaces.
Druh dokumentu: Article
Jazyk: English
ISSN: 2048-3988
1478-0771
DOI: 10.1177/14780771251353797
Rights: CC BY NC
Prístupové číslo: edsair.doi...........c3971b186e0e3960fdd9f37321d9899f
Databáza: OpenAIRE
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Abstrakt:Building on previous research in generative graph machine learning in architecture, this paper investigates how data generation and preparation can change the distribution of a model’s latent space and thus its generative qualities. Therefore, we first present and discuss our previous approach of applying generative graph machine learning in architecture by sampling the latent space of a graph autoencoder trained with the augmentations of four examples of modernist buildings. We then present a new method of data generation for modernist buildings in the style of architect Mies van der Rohe, which produces a large range of 3D building models with great geometric variety. Trained on the new dataset, the graph autoencoder shows a more continuous latent space, confirmed by visual comparison and by three spatial analysis algorithms that quantitatively assess the spatial structure of the different latent spaces.
ISSN:20483988
14780771
DOI:10.1177/14780771251353797