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The Hierarchical Task Network (HTN) formalism is used to express a wide variety of planning problems in terms of decompositions of tasks into subtaks. Many techniques have been proposed to solve such hierarchical planning problems. A…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-16 N. Cavrel , D. Pellier , H. Fiorino

Learning of preference models from human feedback has been central to recent advances in artificial intelligence. Motivated by the cost of obtaining high-quality human annotations, we study efficient human preference elicitation for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Subhojyoti Mukherjee , Anusha Lalitha , Kousha Kalantari , Aniket Deshmukh , Ge Liu , Yifei Ma , Branislav Kveton

The Hierarchical Task Network (HTN) formalism is used to express a wide variety of planning problems as task decompositions, and many techniques have been proposed to solve them. However, few works have been done on temporal HTN. This is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Nicolas Cavrel , Damien Pellier , Humbert Fiorino

Hierarchical Task Network (HTN) planning is a practical and efficient approach to planning when the 'standard operating procedures' for a domain are available. Like Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) agent reasoning, HTN planning performs…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Lavindra de Silva

Autonomous robots are increasingly utilized in realistic scenarios with multiple complex tasks. In these scenarios, there may be a preferred way of completing all of the given tasks, but it is often in conflict with optimal execution.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Peter Amorese , Morteza Lahijanian

Preference Inference involves inferring additional user preferences from elicited or observed preferences, based on assumptions regarding the form of the user's preference relation. In this paper we consider a situation in which…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Nic Wilson , Anne-Marie George , Barry O'Sullivan

The notion of preference is becoming more and more ubiquitous in present-day information systems. Preferences are primarily used to filter and personalize the information reaching the users of such systems. In database systems, preferences…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Jan Chomicki

In this paper, we construct and compare algorithmic approaches to solve the Preference Consistency Problem for preference statements based on hierarchical models. Instances of this problem contain a set of preference statements that are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Anne-Marie George , Nic Wilson , Barry O'Sullivan

Preference tuning is a crucial process for aligning deep generative models with human preferences. This survey offers a thorough overview of recent advancements in preference tuning and the integration of human feedback. The paper is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Genta Indra Winata , Hanyang Zhao , Anirban Das , Wenpin Tang , David D. Yao , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Sambit Sahu

We investigate learning heuristics for domain-specific planning. Prior work framed learning a heuristic as an ordinary regression problem. However, in a greedy best-first search, the ordering of states induced by a heuristic is more…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-08-04 Caelan Reed Garrett , Leslie Pack Kaelbling , Tomas Lozano-Perez

Tools for filtering the World Wide Web exist, but they are hampered by the difficulty of capturing user preferences in such a dynamic environment. We explore the acquisition of user profiles by unobtrusive monitoring of browsing behaviour…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2007-05-23 S. E. Middleton , D. C. De Roure , N. R. Shadbolt

Many academic disciplines - including information systems, computer science, and operations management - face scheduling problems as important decision making tasks. Since many scheduling problems are NP-hard in the strong sense, there is a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-05-26 Gerhard Rauchecker , Guido Schryen

In order to cope with the task allocation in national economic mobilization, a task allocation planning method based on Hierarchical Task Network (HTN) for national economic mobilization is proposed. An HTN planning algorithm is designed to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Peng Zhao

Most sequential recommendation (SR) systems employing graph neural networks (GNNs) only model a user's interaction sequence as a flat graph without hierarchy, overlooking diverse factors in the user's preference. Moreover, the timespan…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Lyuxin Xue , Deqing Yang , Yanghua Xiao

Recognition of goals and plans using incomplete evidence from action execution can be done efficiently by using planning techniques. In many applications it is important to recognize goals and plans not only accurately, but also quickly. In…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-02-08 Ramon Fraga Pereira , Felipe Meneguzzi

Requirements prioritization is a critical activity during the early software development process, which produces a set of key requirements to implement. The prioritization process offers a parity among the requirements based on multiple…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Jonathan Winton , Francis Palma

Preference learning from human feedback has the ability to align generative models with the needs of end-users. Human feedback is costly and time-consuming to obtain, which creates demand for data-efficient query selection methods. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Guy Schacht , Ziyad Sheebaelhamd , Riccardo De Santi , Mojmír Mutný , Andreas Krause

In this work, we consider the problem of planning for temporal logic tasks in large robot environments. When full task compliance is unattainable, we aim to achieve the best possible task satisfaction by integrating user preferences for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Disha Kamale , Xi Yu , Cristian-Ioan Vasile

A key distinguishing feature of conversational recommender systems over traditional recommender systems is their ability to elicit user preferences using natural language. Currently, the predominant approach to preference elicitation is to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Ivica Kostric , Krisztian Balog , Filip Radlinski

In multi-objective decision planning and learning, much attention is paid to producing optimal solution sets that contain an optimal policy for every possible user preference profile. We argue that the step that follows, i.e, determining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-22 Luisa M Zintgraf , Diederik M Roijers , Sjoerd Linders , Catholijn M Jonker , Ann Nowé