Xiangdong Zhou

AAAI Conference 2026 Conference Paper

ReCAD: Reinforcement Learning Enhanced Parametric CAD Model Generation with Vision-Language Models

• Jiahao Li
• Yusheng Luo
• Yunzhong Lou
• Xiangdong Zhou

We present ReCAD, a reinforcement learning (RL) framework that bootstraps pretrained large models (PLMs) to generate precise parametric computer-aided design (CAD) models from multimodal inputs by leveraging their inherent generative capabilities. With just access to simple functional interfaces (e.g., point coordinates), our approach enables the emergence of complex CAD operations (e.g., pattern replication and mirror). This stands in contrast to previous methods, which typically rely on knowledge injected through supervised fine-tuning (SFT), offer limited support for editability, and fail to exploit the strong generative priors of PLMs. Specifically, the ReCAD framework begins by fine-tuning vision-language models (VLMs) to equip them with basic CAD model generation capabilities, where we rewrite CAD scripts into parameterized code that is leveraged to generate accurate textual descriptions for supervision. Then, we propose a novel RL strategy that incorporates parameterized code as guidance to enhance the model’s reasoning on challenging questions. Furthermore, we employ a hierarchical primitive learning process to progressively teach structured and compositional skills under a unified reward function that ensures both geometric accuracy and semantic fidelity. ReCAD sets a new state-of-the-art in both text-to-CAD and image-to-CAD tasks, significantly improving geometric accuracy across in-distribution and out-of-distribution settings. In the image-to-CAD task, for instance, it reduces the mean Chamfer Distance from 73.47 to 29.61 (in-distribution) and from 272.06 to 80.23 (out-of-distribution), outperforming existing baselines by a substantial margin.

AAAI Conference 2025 Conference Paper

Mamba-CAD: State Space Model for 3D Computer-Aided Design Generative Modeling

• Xueyang Li
• Yunzhong Lou
• Yu Song
• Xiangdong Zhou

Computer-Aided Design (CAD) generative modeling has a strong and long-term application in the industry. Recently, the parametric CAD sequence as the design logic of an object has been widely mined by sequence models. However, the industrial CAD models, especially in component objects, are fine-grained and complex, requiring a longer parametric CAD sequence to define. To address the problem, we introduce Mamba-CAD, a self-supervised generative modeling for complex CAD models in the industry, which can model on a longer parametric CAD sequence. Specifically, we first design an encoder-decoder framework based on a Mamba architecture and pair it with a CAD reconstruction task for pre-training to model the latent representation of CAD models; and then we utilize the learned representation to guide a generative adversarial network to produce the fake representation of CAD models, which would be finally recovered into parametric CAD sequences via the decoder of Mamba-CAD. To train Mamba-CAD, we further create a new dataset consisting of 77,078 CAD models with longer parametric CAD sequences. Comprehensive experiments are conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of our model under various evaluation metrics, especially in the generation length of valid parametric CAD sequences.

EAAI Journal 2021 Journal Article

A multi-objective bat algorithm with a novel competitive mechanism and its application in controller tuning

• Hu Li
• Bao Song
• Xiaoqi Tang
• Yuanlong Xie
• Xiangdong Zhou

IJCAI Conference 2018 Conference Paper

Hierarchical Electricity Time Series Forecasting for Integrating Consumption Patterns Analysis and Aggregation Consistency

• Yue Pang
• Bo Yao
• Xiangdong Zhou
• Yong Zhang
• Yiming Xu
• Zijing Tan

Electricity demand forecasting is a very important problem for energy supply and environmental protection. It can be formalized as a hierarchical time series forecasting problem with the aggregation constraints according to the geographical hierarchy, since the sum of the prediction results of the disaggregated time series should be equal to the prediction results of the aggregated ones. However in most previous work, the aggregation consistency is ensured at the loss of forecast accuracy. In this paper, we propose a novel clustering-based hierarchical electricity time series forecasting approach. Instead of dealing with the geographical hierarchy directly, we explore electricity consumption patterns by clustering analysis and build a new consumption pattern based time series hierarchy. We then present a novel hierarchical forecasting method with consumption hierarchical aggregation constraints to improve the electricity demand predictions of the bottom level, followed by a ``bottom-up" method to obtain forecasts of the geographical higher levels. Especially, we observe that in our consumption pattern based hierarchy the reconciliation error of the bottom level time series is ``correlated" to its membership degree of the corresponding cluster (consumption pattern), and hence apply this correlations as the regularization term in our forecasting objective function. Extensive experiments on real-life datasets verify that our approach achieves the best prediction accuracy, compared with the state-of-the-art methods.