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Solving complex planning problems requires Large Language Models (LLMs) to explicitly model the state transition to avoid rule violations, comply with constraints, and ensure optimality-a task hindered by the inherent ambiguity of natural…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Zhouliang Yu , Yuhuan Yuan , Tim Z. Xiao , Fuxiang Frank Xia , Jie Fu , Ge Zhang , Ge Lin , Weiyang Liu

Large Language Models have been found to create plans that are neither executable nor verifiable in grounded environments. An emerging line of work demonstrates success in using the LLM as a formalizer to generate a formal representation of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Cassie Huang , Li Zhang

Using LLMs not to predict plans but to formalize an environment into the Planning Domain Definition Language (PDDL) has been shown to improve performance and control. While most existing methodology only applies to fully observable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Liancheng Gong , Wang Zhu , Jesse Thomason , Li Zhang

We study the usage of language models (LMs) for planning over world models specified in the Planning Domain Definition Language (PDDL). We prompt LMs to generate Python programs that serve as generalised policies for solving PDDL problems…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Dillon Z. Chen , Johannes Zenn , Tristan Cinquin , Sheila A. McIlraith

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional reasoning capabilities, enabling them to solve various complex problems. Recently, this ability has been applied to the paradigm of tool learning. Tool learning involves providing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Yanming Liu , Xinyue Peng , Jiannan Cao , Yuwei Zhang , Xuhong Zhang , Sheng Cheng , Xun Wang , Jianwei Yin , Tianyu Du

Developing domain models is one of the few remaining places that require manual human labor in AI planning. Thus, in order to make planning more accessible, it is desirable to automate the process of domain model generation. To this end, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-14 James Oswald , Kavitha Srinivas , Harsha Kokel , Junkyu Lee , Michael Katz , Shirin Sohrabi

In symbolic planning systems, the knowledge on the domain is commonly provided by an expert. Recently, an automatic abstraction procedure has been proposed in the literature to create a Planning Domain Definition Language (PDDL)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Angelo Oddi , Riccardo Rasconi , Emilio Cartoni , Gabriele Sartor , Gianluca Baldassarre , Vieri Giuliano Santucci

Automated planning is concerned with developing efficient algorithms to generate plans or sequences of actions to achieve a specific goal in a given environment. Emerging Large Language Models (LLMs) can answer questions, write high-quality…

Deep Learning (DL) developers come from different backgrounds, e.g., medicine, genomics, finance, and computer science. To create a DL model, they must learn and use high-level programming languages (e.g., Python), thus needing to handle…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Tommaso Calò , Luigi De Russis

Tool planning with large language models (LLMs), referring to selecting, organizing, and preparing the tools necessary to complete a user request, bridges the gap between natural language understanding and task execution. However, current…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Wenjie Chen , Wenbin Li , Di Yao , Xuying Meng , Chang Gong , Jingping Bi

In real-world applications, the ability to reason about incomplete knowledge, sensing, temporal notions, and numeric constraints is vital. While several AI planners are capable of dealing with some of these requirements, they are mostly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Yaniel Carreno , Yvan Petillot , Ronald P. A. Petrick

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used for planning tasks, offering unique capabilities not found in classical planners such as generating explanations and iterative refinement. However, trust--a critical factor in the adoption…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Shenghui Chen , Yunhao Yang , Kayla Boggess , Seongkook Heo , Lu Feng , Ufuk Topcu

Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized a large variety of NLP tasks. An active debate is to what extent they can do reasoning and planning. Prior work has assessed the latter in the specific context of PDDL planning, based on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Katharina Stein , Daniel Fišer , Jörg Hoffmann , Alexander Koller

We introduce ontology-mediated planning, in which planning problems are combined with an ontology. Our formalism differs from existing ones in that we focus on a strong separation of the formalisms for describing planning problems and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Tobias John , Patrick Koopmann

Task planning, the problem of sequencing actions to reach a goal from an initial state, is a core capability requirement for autonomous robotic systems. Whether large language models (LLMs) can serve as viable planners alongside classical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Kai Göbel , Pierrick Lorang , Patrik Zips , Tobias Glück

Manually creating Planning Domain Definition Language (PDDL) descriptions is difficult, error-prone, and requires extensive expert knowledge. However, this knowledge is already embedded in engineering models and can be reused. Therefore,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Hamied Nabizada , Tom Jeleniewski , Felix Gehlhoff , Alexander Fay

Layout design is ubiquitous in many applications, e.g. architecture/urban planning, etc, which involves a lengthy iterative design process. Recently, deep learning has been leveraged to automatically generate layouts via image generation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Feixiang He , Yanlong Huang , He Wang

As network traffic monitoring software for cybersecurity, malware detection, and other critical tasks becomes increasingly automated, the rate of alerts and supporting data gathered, as well as the complexity of the underlying model,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-05-14 Kartik Talamadupula , Octavian Udrea , Anton Riabov , Anand Ranganathan

Model-driven engineering (MDE) simplifies software development through abstraction, yet challenges such as time constraints, incomplete domain understanding, and adherence to syntactic constraints hinder the design process. This paper…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Meriem Ben Chaaben , Lola Burgueño , Istvan David , Houari Sahraoui

In this paper we present pddl+, a planning domain description language for modelling mixed discrete-continuous planning domains. We describe the syntax and modelling style of pddl+, showing that the language makes convenient the modelling…

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