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Behavior Trees (BTs) are increasingly becoming a popular control structure in robotics due to their modularity, reactivity, and robustness. In terms of BT generation methods, BT planning shows promise for generating reliable BTs. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Yishuai Cai , Xinglin Chen , Yunxin Mao , Minglong Li , Shaowu Yang , Wenjing Yang , Ji Wang

Large and small language models have been widely used for robotic task planning. At the same time, vision-language models (VLMs) have successfully tackled problems such as image captioning, scene understanding, and visual question…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Cristiano Battistini , Riccardo Andrea Izzo , Gianluca Bardaro , Matteo Matteucci

One of the key challenges when developing a predictive model is the capability to describe the domain knowledge and the cause-effect relationships in a simple way. Decision rules are a useful and important methodology in this context,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Francisco Valente , Jorge Henriques , Simão Paredes , Teresa Rocha , Paulo de Carvalho , João Morais

The use of Large Language Models (LLMs) for generating Behavior Trees (BTs) has recently gained attention in the robotics community, yet remains in its early stages of development. In this paper, we propose a novel framework that leverages…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Naoki Wake , Atsushi Kanehira , Jun Takamatsu , Kazuhiro Sasabuchi , Katsushi Ikeuchi

Natural language instructions are often abstract and complex, requiring robots to execute multiple subtasks even for seemingly simple queries. For example, when a user asks a robot to prepare avocado toast, the task involves several…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Alexander Leszczynski , Sarah Gillet , Iolanda Leite , Fethiye Irmak Dogan

Role-playing (RP) agents rely on behavioral profiles to act consistently across diverse narrative contexts, yet existing profiles are largely unstructured, non-executable, and weakly validated, leading to brittle agent behavior. We propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Letian Peng , Kun Zhou , Longfei Yun , Yupeng Hou , Jingbo Shang

High-dimensional policies, such as those represented by neural networks, cannot be reasonably interpreted by humans. This lack of interpretability reduces the trust users have in policy behavior, limiting their use to low-impact tasks such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-20 John Mern , Sidhart Krishnan , Anil Yildiz , Kyle Hatch , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Behavior Trees are commonly used to model agents for robotics and games, where constrained behaviors must be designed by human experts in order to guarantee that these agents will execute a specific chain of actions given a specific set of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-06-09 Renato de Pontes Pereira , Paulo Martins Engel

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has already made a huge impact on our current technological trends. Through AI developments, machines are now given power and intelligence to behave and work like human mind. In this research project, we propose…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Rida Sara Khan , Asad Ali Zardar , Zeeshan Bhatti

We introduce a novel framework for automatic behavior tree (BT) construction in heterogeneous multi-robot systems, designed to address the challenges of adaptability and robustness in dynamic environments. Traditional robots are limited by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Chaoran Wang , Jingyuan Sun , Yanhui Zhang , Mingyu Zhang , Changju Wu

Robotic systems for manipulation tasks are increasingly expected to be easy to configure for new tasks or unpredictable environments, while keeping a transparent policy that is readable and verifiable by humans. We propose the method…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Jonathan Styrud , Matteo Iovino , Mikael Norrlöf , Mårten Björkman , Christian Smith

Modern network defense can benefit from the use of autonomous systems, offloading tedious and time-consuming work to agents with standard and learning-enabled components. These agents, operating on critical network infrastructure, need to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Nicholas Potteiger , Ankita Samaddar , Hunter Bergstrom , Xenofon Koutsoukos

We propose Causal Interaction Trees for identifying subgroups of participants that have enhanced treatment effects using observational data. We extend the Classification and Regression Tree algorithm by using splitting criteria that focus…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-12-08 Jiabei Yang , Issa J. Dahabreh , Jon A. Steingrimsson

A contextual care protocol is used by a medical practitioner for patient healthcare, given the context or situation that the specified patient is in. This paper proposes a method to build an automated self-adapting protocol which can help…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Yash Pratyush Sinha , Pranshu Malviya , Minerva Panda , Syed Mohd Ali

Neural networks (NNs) and decision trees (DTs) are both popular models of machine learning, yet coming with mutually exclusive advantages and limitations. To bring the best of the two worlds, a variety of approaches are proposed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Haoling Li , Jie Song , Mengqi Xue , Haofei Zhang , Jingwen Ye , Lechao Cheng , Mingli Song

Mass customization and shorter manufacturing cycles are becoming more important among small and medium-sized companies. However, classical industrial robots struggle to cope with product variation and dynamic environments. In this paper, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Aayush Jain , Philip Long , Valeria Villani , John D. Kelleher , Maria Chiara Leva

In this paper we show how the combination of Behaviour Tree and Utility Based AI architecture can be used to design more realistic bots for Military Simulators. In this work, we have designed a mathematical model of a simulator system which…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Shruti Jadon , Anubhav Singhal , Suma Dawn

Tree-based machine learning models such as random forests, decision trees, and gradient boosted trees are the most popular non-linear predictive models used in practice today, yet comparatively little attention has been paid to explaining…

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown transformative potential in medical applications, yet their performance is hindered by conventional data curation strategies that rely on coarse-grained partitioning by modality or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Jianghang Lin , Haihua Yang , Deli Yu , Kai Wu , Kai Ye , Jinghao Lin , Zihan Wang , Yuhang Wu , Liujuan Cao

This paper introduces \textit{measurement trees}, a novel class of metrics designed to combine various constructs into an interpretable multi-level representation of a measurand. Unlike conventional metrics that yield single values,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Craig Greenberg , Patrick Hall , Theodore Jensen , Kristen Greene , Razvan Amironesei