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This paper investigates robot manipulation based on human instruction with ambiguous requests. The intent is to compensate for imperfect natural language via visual observations. Early symbolic methods, based on manually defined symbols,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Ruinian Xu , Hongyi Chen , Yunzhi Lin , Patricio A. Vela

Large language models (LLMs) have recently attracted considerable interest for their ability to perform complex reasoning tasks, such as chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning. However, most of the existing approaches to enhance this ability rely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Xinyi Wang , Lucas Caccia , Oleksiy Ostapenko , Xingdi Yuan , William Yang Wang , Alessandro Sordoni

In the era of smart manufacturing and Industry 4.0, the refining industry is evolving towards large-scale integration and flexible production systems. In response to these new demands, this paper presents a novel optimization framework for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-14 Zhouchang Li , Runze Lin , Hongye Su , Lei Xie

Automatic parameter tuning methods for planning algorithms, which integrate pipeline approaches with learning-based techniques, are regarded as promising due to their stability and capability to handle highly constrained environments. While…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Lu Wangtao , Wei Yufei , Xu Jiadong , Jia Wenhao , Li Liang , Xiong Rong , Wang Yue

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

Designing reward functions for efficiently guiding reinforcement learning (RL) agents toward specific behaviors is a complex task. This is challenging since it requires the identification of reward structures that are not sparse and that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Dhawal Gupta , Yash Chandak , Scott M. Jordan , Philip S. Thomas , Bruno Castro da Silva

Reward design is a fundamental problem in reinforcement learning (RL). A misspecified or poorly designed reward can result in low sample efficiency and undesired behaviors. In this paper, we propose the idea of programmatic reward design,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Weichao Zhou , Wenchao Li

Recent studies increasingly explore Large Language Models (LLMs) as a new paradigm for recommendation systems due to their scalability and world knowledge. However, existing work has three key limitations: (1) most efforts focus on…

People get informed of a daily task plan through diverse media involving both texts and images. However, most prior research only focuses on LLM's capability of textual plan generation. The potential of large-scale models in providing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Xiaoxin Lu , Ranran Haoran Zhang , Yusen Zhang , Rui Zhang

Recently, decomposing complex problems into simple subtasks--a crucial part of human-like natural planning--to solve the given problem has significantly boosted the performance of large language models (LLMs). However, leveraging such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Mihir Parmar , Palash Goyal , Xin Liu , Yiwen Song , Mingyang Ling , Chitta Baral , Hamid Palangi , Tomas Pfister

Reinforcement learning has been successful in many tasks ranging from robotic control, games, energy management etc. In complex real world environments with sparse rewards and long task horizons, sample efficiency is still a major…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Bharat Prakash , Nicholas Waytowich , Tim Oates , Tinoosh Mohsenin

We propose incorporating human labelers in a model fine-tuning system that provides immediate user feedback. In our framework, human labelers can interactively query model predictions on unlabeled data, choose which data to label, and see…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Caleb Robinson , Anthony Ortiz , Kolya Malkin , Blake Elias , Andi Peng , Dan Morris , Bistra Dilkina , Nebojsa Jojic

Symbolic planning models allow decision-making agents to sequence actions in arbitrary ways to achieve a variety of goals in dynamic domains. However, they are typically handcrafted and tend to require precise formulations that are not…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Vasanth Sarathy , Daniel Kasenberg , Shivam Goel , Jivko Sinapov , Matthias Scheutz

Current end-to-end semantic role labeling is mostly accomplished via graph-based neural models. However, these all are first-order models, where each decision for detecting any predicate-argument pair is made in isolation with local…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Hao Fei , Yafeng Ren , Donghong Ji

In this study, we address the challenge of learning generalizable policies for compositional tasks defined by logical specifications. These tasks consist of multiple temporally extended sub-tasks. Due to the sub-task inter-dependencies and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Duo Xu , Faramarz Fekri

Recent work investigated the use of Reinforcement Learning (RL) for the synthesis of heuristic guidance to improve the performance of temporal planners when a domain is fixed and a set of training problems (not plans) is given. The idea is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Irene Brugnara , Alessandro Valentini , Andrea Micheli

We provide a systematic analysis of levels of integration between discrete high-level reasoning and continuous low-level reasoning to address hybrid planning problems in robotics. We identify four distinct strategies for such an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2013-07-30 Esra Erdem , Volkan Patoglu , Peter Schüller

This work presents a dual-agent \ac{llm}-based reasoning framework for automated planar mechanism synthesis that tightly couples linguistic specification with symbolic representation and simulation. From a natural-language task description,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-09 João Pedro Gandarela , Thiago Rios , Stefan Menzel , André Freitas

Current evaluation functions for heuristic planning are expensive to compute. In numerous planning problems these functions provide good guidance to the solution, so they are worth the expense. However, when evaluation functions are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-01-17 Tomas De la Rosa , Sergio Jimenez , Raquel Fuentetaja , Daniel Borrajo

Event-B is a formal approach oriented to system modeling and analysis. It supports refinement mechanism that enables stepwise modeling and verification of a system. By using refinement, the complexity of verification can be spread and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-10-29 Tsutomu Kobayashi , Shinichi Honiden