BIM-Native Tokenization for Constraint-Aware Room Layout Synthesis
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We present a BIM-native tokenization for room-level layout synthesis in Building Information Modeling (BIM) scenes. The core contribution is representational: we encode each room as a sequence of BIM-Token Bundles, realized as columns of a sparse attribute-feature matrix that unifies categorical and continuous attributes of walls, openings, and entities under wall-referenced (translation/scale-invariant) coordinates. A mixed-type embedding module produces a unified token vector from this matrix; a single Transformer backbone is then trained in two modes: encoder-only for room embeddings and retrieval, and encoder-decoder for autoregressive entity placement, which we call Data-Driven Entity Prediction (DDEP). On a controlled same-data benchmark with shared ontology and evaluation harness, DDEP outperforms ATISS and BLT baselines bridged into our representation, with ablations identifying joint continuous-feature embedding and entity ordering as primary drivers. Encoder embeddings cluster rooms by type more tightly than large general-purpose text encoders, which in turn retain an edge on within-type ranking. We frame this work as evidence that modestly sized, domain-specific sequence models over well-designed BIM tokenizations are a useful primitive for constraint-aware spatial generation, complementary to general-purpose LLMs/VLMs which we also benchmark.