DStruct2Design: Data and Benchmarks for Data Structure Driven Generative Floor Plan Design

TL;DR

This paper introduces a new dataset, benchmarks, and baseline models for data structure-driven floorplan generation that emphasizes numerical constraints over aesthetics, enabling more precise and constrained design generation.

Contribution

It presents a novel dataset and benchmarks for data-structure-based floorplan generation and demonstrates the feasibility of using LLMs conditioned on data structures to respect numerical constraints.

Findings

Constructed datasets from RPLAN and ProcTHOR-10k for data-structure-based floorplan generation.

Designed metrics and benchmarks for evaluating constraint adherence.

Fine-tuned Llama3 to generate floorplans respecting numerical constraints.

Abstract

Text conditioned generative models for images have yielded impressive results. Text conditioned floorplan generation as a special type of raster image generation task also received particular attention. However there are many use cases in floorpla generation where numerical properties of the generated result are more important than the aesthetics. For instance, one might want to specify sizes for certain rooms in a floorplan and compare the generated floorplan with given specifications Current approaches, datasets and commonly used evaluations do not support these kinds of constraints. As such, an attractive strategy is to generate an intermediate data structure that contains numerical properties of a floorplan which can be used to generate the final floorplan image. To explore this setting we (1) construct a new dataset for this data-structure to data-structure formulation of floorplan generation using two popular image based floorplan datasets RPLAN and ProcTHOR-10k, and provide the tools to convert further procedurally generated ProcTHOR floorplan data into our format. (2) We explore the task of floorplan generation given a partial or complete set of constraints and we design a series of metrics and benchmarks to enable evaluating how well samples generated from models respect the constraints. (3) We create multiple baselines by finetuning a large language model (LLM), Llama3, and demonstrate the feasibility of using floorplan data structure conditioned LLMs for the problem of floorplan generation respecting numerical constraints. We hope that our new datasets and benchmarks will encourage further research on different ways to improve the performance of LLMs and other generative modelling techniques for generating designs where quantitative constraints are only partially specified, but must be respected.