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Industry 4.0 proposes the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into manufacturing and other industries to create smart collaborative systems which enhance efficiency. The aim of this paper is to develop a flexible and adaptive…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-12 Qiguang Chen , Ya-Jun Pan

Developing autonomous agents for web-based tasks is a core challenge in AI. While Large Language Model (LLM) agents can interpret complex user requests, they often operate as black boxes, making it difficult to diagnose why they fail or how…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Orit Shahnovsky , Rotem Dror

Sequential decision making, commonly formalized as optimization of a Markov Decision Process, is a key challenge in artificial intelligence. Two successful approaches to MDP optimization are reinforcement learning and planning, which both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Thomas M. Moerland , Joost Broekens , Aske Plaat , Catholijn M. Jonker

Standard planners for sequential decision making (including Monte Carlo planning, tree search, dynamic programming, etc.) are constrained by an implicit sequential planning assumption: The order in which a plan is constructed is the same in…

Scientific discovery concerns finding patterns in data and creating insightful hypotheses that explain these patterns. Traditionally, this process required human ingenuity, but with the galloping advances in artificial intelligence (AI) it…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Julian Skirzynski , Yash Raj Jain , Falk Lieder

Landmarks have long played a pivotal role in automated planning, serving as crucial elements for improving the planning algorithms. The main limitation of classical landmark extraction methods is their sensitivity to specific planning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Cristian Pérez-Corral , Antonio Garrido , Laura Sebastia

Prior work on generating explanations in a planning and decision-making context has focused on providing the rationale behind an AI agent's decision making. While these methods provide the right explanations from the explainer's…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Mehrdad Zakershahrak , Shashank Rao Marpally , Akshay Sharma , Ze Gong , Yu Zhang

Discovering useful temporal abstractions, in the form of options, is widely thought to be key to applying reinforcement learning and planning to increasingly complex domains. Building on the empirical success of the Expert Iteration…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Kenny Young , Richard S. Sutton

Recent studies have shown that carefully designed workflows coordinating large language models(LLMs) significantly enhance task-solving capabilities compared to using a single model. While an increasing number of works focus on autonomous…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Yi Lin , Lujin Zhao , Yijie Shi

Automated planning is a form of declarative problem solving which has recently drawn attention from the machine learning (ML) community. ML has been applied to planning either as a way to test `reasoning capabilities' of architectures, or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Dillon Z. Chen , Rostislav Horčík , Gustav Šír

Methods for learning and planning in sequential decision problems often assume the learner is aware of all possible states and actions in advance. This assumption is sometimes untenable. In this paper, we give a method to learn factored…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Craig Innes , Alex Lascarides

Reinforcement learning (RL) involves sequential decision making in uncertain environments. The aim of the decision-making agent is to maximize the benefit of acting in its environment over an extended period of time. Finding an optimal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Istvan Szita , Balint Takacs , Andras Lorincz

We study the iterative refinement of path planning for multiple robots, known as multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF). Given a graph, agents, their initial locations, and destinations, a solution of MAPF is a set of paths without collisions.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Keisuke Okumura , Yasumasa Tamura , Xavier Defago

Various works have utilized deep learning to address the query optimization problem in database system. They either learn to construct plans from scratch in a bottom-up manner or steer the plan generation behavior of traditional optimizer…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Kai Zhong , Luming Sun , Tao Ji , Cuiping Li , Hong Chen

Domain-independent probabilistic planners input an MDP description in a factored representation language such as PPDDL or RDDL, and exploit the specifics of the representation for faster planning. Traditional algorithms operate on each…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Aniket Bajpai , Sankalp Garg , Mausam

Recent studies have explored integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) with search engines to leverage both the LLMs' internal pre-trained knowledge and external information. Specially, reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a promising…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Lang Mei , Zhihan Yang , Xiaohan Yu , Huanyao Zhang , Chong Chen

In a multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF) problem, agents need to navigate from their start to their goal locations without colliding into each other. There are various MAPF algorithms, including Windowed Hierarchical Cooperative A*, Flow…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Devon Sigurdson , Vadim Bulitko , Sven Koenig , Carlos Hernandez , William Yeoh

Many autonomous driving motion planners generate trajectories by optimizing a reward/cost functional. Designing and tuning a high-performance reward/cost functional for Level-4 autonomous driving vehicles with exposure to different driving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Haoyang Fan , Zhongpu Xia , Changchun Liu , Yaqin Chen , Qi Kong

Optimizing the parallel training of large models requires exploring intra-operator parallelism plans for a computation graph that typically contains tens of thousands of primitive operators. While the optimization of parallel data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Weifang Hu , Xuanhua Shi , Yunkai Zhang , Chang Wu , Xuan Peng , Jiaqi Zhai , Hai Jin , Xuehai Qian , Jingling Xue , Yongluan Zhou

This paper presents a sampling-based motion planning framework that leverages the geometry of obstacles in a workspace as well as prior experiences from motion planning problems. Previous studies have demonstrated the benefits of utilizing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Keita Kobashi , Changhao Wang , Yu Zhao , Hsien-Chung Lin , Masayoshi Tomizuka