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Main Authors: Sweed, Nir, Hakim, Hanit, Wolfson, Ben, Lifshitz, Hila, Shahaf, Dafna
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05072
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  • Innovators often exhibit cognitive fixation on existing solutions or nascent ideas, hindering the exploration of novel alternatives. This paper introduces a methodology for constructing Functional Concept Graphs (FCGs), interconnected representations of functional elements that support abstraction, problem reframing, and analogical inspiration. Our approach yields large-scale, high-quality FCGs with explicit abstraction relations, overcoming limitations of prior work. We further present MUSE, an algorithm leveraging FCGs to generate creative inspirations for a given problem. We demonstrate our method by computing an FCG on 500K patents, which we release for further research.