Tell2Design: A Dataset for Language-Guided Floor Plan Generation

Code and data for the paper "Tell2Design: A Dataset for Language-Guided Floor Plan Generation" (ACL 2023)

For any inquiries, please contact Lengsicong@gmail.com and zhou_yang@ihpc.a-star.edu.sg.

Requirements

Python 3.7.6
PyTorch (tested with version 1.10.0)
Transformers (tested with version 4.14.1)

You can install all required Python packages with pip install -r requirements.txt

Datasets

The dataset collected in this paper is stored in Google Drive. Please download the zip file from the cloud and extract to your local machine.

Data Structure

General Data/
- floorplan_image/ (all floor plan RGB images)
- human_annotated_tags/ (all human-annotated floor plan descriptions)
- Tell2Design_artificial_all.pkl (all artificial-generated floor plan descriptions)
Separated Data/ (data separated w.r.t. different training stages for all baselines)
- 1st_finetune_data/
- 2nd_finetune_data/
- eval_data/

Running the Seq2Seq Baseline

Use the following command: python run.py floorplan

The floorplan argument refers to a section of the config file, which by default is config.ini. A sample config file is provided.

For example, to replicate the paper's results, have the following section in the config file:

[floorplan]
datasets = floorplan
model_name_or_path = t5-base
num_train_epochs = 20
max_seq_length = 512
max_seq_length_eval = 512
per_device_train_batch_size = 4
per_device_eval_batch_size = 4
do_train = True
do_eval = True
do_predict = False
boundary_in_where = Encoder
exp = full
editing_data = False
output_format_type = original
comment = baseline
adapter = None

Then run python run.py floorplan.

Config arguments can be overwritten by command line arguments. For example: python run.py floorplan --num_train_epochs 50.

Additional details

If do_train = True, the model is trained on the given train split (e.g., 'train') of the given datasets. The final weights and intermediate checkpoints are written in a directory such as experiments/floorplan-t5-base-full-ep20-len512-b12-train-original-baseline, with one subdirectory per episode. Results in JSON format are also going to be saved there.

In every episode, the model is trained on a different (random) permutation of the training set. The random seed is given by the episode number, so that every episode always produces the same exact model.

Once a model is trained, it is possible to evaluate it without training again. For this, set do_train = False or (more easily) provide the -e command-line argument: python run.py floorplan -e.

If do_eval = True, the model is evaluated on the 'dev' split. If do_predict = True, the model is evaluated on the 'test' split.

Arguments

The following are the most important command-line arguments for the run.py script. Run python run.py -h for the full list.

-c CONFIG_FILE: specify config file to use (default is config.ini)
-e: only run evaluation (overwrites the setting do_train in the config file)
-a: evaluate also intermediate checkpoints, in addition to the final model
-v : print results for each evaluation run
-g GPU: specify which GPU to use for evaluation

The following are the most important arguments for the config file. See the sample config file to understand the format.

model_name_or_path (str): path to pretrained model or model identifier from huggingface.co/models (e.g. t5-base)
do_train (bool): whether to run training (default is False)
do_eval (bool): whether to run evaluation on the dev set (default is False)
do_predict (bool): whether to run evaluation on the test set (default is False)
num_train_epochs (int): number of train epochs
learning_rate (float): initial learning rate (default is 5e-4)
per_device_train_batch_size (int): batch size per GPU during training (default is 8)
per_device_eval_batch_size (int): batch size during evaluation (default is 8; only one GPU is used for evaluation)
max_seq_length (int): maximum input sequence length after tokenization; longer sequences are truncated
max_output_seq_length (int): maximum output sequence length (default is max_seq_length)
max_seq_length_eval (int): maximum input sequence length for evaluation (default is max_seq_length)
max_output_seq_length_eval (int): maximum output sequence length for evaluation (default is max_output_seq_length or max_seq_length_eval or max_seq_length)
episodes (str): episodes to run (default is 0; an interval can be specified, such as 1-4; the episode number is used as the random seed)

See arguments.py and transformers.TrainingArguments for additional config arguments.

Citation

@inproceedings{leng-etal-2023-tell2design,
    title = "{T}ell2{D}esign: A Dataset for Language-Guided Floor Plan Generation",
    author = "Leng, Sicong  and
      Zhou, Yang  and
      Dupty, Mohammed Haroon  and
      Lee, Wee Sun  and
      Joyce, Sam  and
      Lu, Wei",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.820"
}

Licenses

The code of this repository is released under the Apache 2.0 license. The dataset of this repository is released uder the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

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