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We consider a set of challenging sequential manipulation puzzles, where an agent has to interact with multiple movable objects and navigate narrow passages. Such settings are notoriously difficult for Task-and-Motion Planners, as they…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Svetlana Levit , Joaquim Ortiz-Haro , Marc Toussaint

In this work we propose a planning and acting architecture endowed with a module which learns to select subgoals with Deep Q-Learning. This allows us to decrease the load of a planner when faced with scenarios with real-time restrictions.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Carlos Núñez-Molina , Juan Fernández-Olivares , Raúl Pérez

Learning to solve complex goal-oriented tasks with sparse terminal-only rewards often requires an enormous number of samples. In such cases, using a set of expert trajectories could help to learn faster. However, Imitation Learning (IL) via…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Sujoy Paul , Jeroen van Baar , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury

Rubik's Cube is an easily-understood puzzle, which is originally called the "magic cube". It is a well-known planning problem, which has been studied for a long time. Yet many simple properties remain unknown. This paper studies whether…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-05-10 Jingchao Chen

Most human behaviors consist of multiple parts, steps, or subtasks. These structures guide our action planning and execution, but when we observe others, the latent structure of their actions is typically unobservable, and must be inferred…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Ryo Nakahashi , Chris L. Baker , Joshua B. Tenenbaum

The ability to plan actions on multiple levels of abstraction enables intelligent agents to solve complex tasks effectively. However, learning the models for both low and high-level planning from demonstrations has proven challenging,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Kalle Kujanpää , Joni Pajarinen , Alexander Ilin

A $k$-submodular function naturally generalizes submodular functions by taking as input $k$ disjoint subsets, rather than a single subset. Unlike standard submodular maximization, which only requires selecting elements for the solution,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Chenhao Wang

Similar trajectory search is a fundamental problem and has been well studied over the past two decades. However, the similar subtrajectory search (SimSub) problem, aiming to return a portion of a trajectory (i.e., a subtrajectory) which is…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Zheng Wang , Cheng Long , Gao Cong , Yiding Liu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have driven substantial progress in artificial intelligence in recent years, exhibiting impressive capabilities across a wide range of tasks, including mathematical problem-solving. Inspired by the success of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Xueliang Zhao , Xinting Huang , Wei Bi , Lingpeng Kong

Planning is hard. The use of subgoals can make planning more tractable, but selecting these subgoals is computationally costly. What algorithms might enable us to reap the benefits of planning using subgoals while minimizing the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Felix J Binder , Marcelo M Mattar , David Kirsh , Judith E Fan

Recently, reinforcement learning has been successfully applied to the logical game of Go, various Atari games, and even a 3D game, Labyrinth, though it continues to have problems in sparse reward settings. It is difficult to explore, but…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Sungtae Lee , Sang-Woo Lee , Jinyoung Choi , Dong-Hyun Kwak , Byoung-Tak Zhang

Many AI problems, in robotics and other domains, are goal-directed, essentially seeking a trajectory leading to some goal state. In such problems, the way we choose to represent a trajectory underlies algorithms for trajectory prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Tom Jurgenson , Edward Groshev , Aviv Tamar

Reinforcement learning in sparse-reward navigation environments with expensive and limited interactions is challenging and poses a need for effective exploration. Motivated by complex navigation tasks that require real-world training (when…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Yijia Wang , Matthias Poloczek , Daniel R. Jiang

Since its first appearance, transformers have been successfully used in wide ranging domains from computer vision to natural language processing. Application of transformers in Reinforcement Learning by reformulating it as a sequence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Mustafa Ebrahim Chasmai

Many puzzle video games, like Sokoban, involve moving some agent in a maze. The reachable locations are usually apparent for a human player, and the difficulty of the game is mainly related to performing actions on objects, such as pushing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Miquel Bofill , Cristina Borralleras , Joan Espasa , Mateu Villaret

Multi-step reasoning remains a central challenge for large language models: single-pass generation is efficient but lacks accuracy; tree-search methods explore multiple paths but are computation-heavy. We address this gap by distilling…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yuyu Liu , Haotian Xu , Yanan He , Sarang Rajendra Patil , Mengjia Xu , Tengfei Ma

Developing agents to engage in complex goal-oriented dialogues is challenging partly because the main learning signals are very sparse in long conversations. In this paper, we propose a divide-and-conquer approach that discovers and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Da Tang , Xiujun Li , Jianfeng Gao , Chong Wang , Lihong Li , Tony Jebara

While Transformers have enabled tremendous progress in various application settings, such architectures still trail behind traditional symbolic planners for solving complex decision making tasks. In this work, we demonstrate how to train…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Lucas Lehnert , Sainbayar Sukhbaatar , DiJia Su , Qinqing Zheng , Paul Mcvay , Michael Rabbat , Yuandong Tian

Policy tree search is a family of tree search algorithms that use a policy to guide the search. These algorithms provide guarantees on the number of expansions required to solve a given problem that are based on the quality of the policy.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Jake Tuero , Michael Buro , Levi H. S. Lelis

Path planning in a changing environment is a challenging task in robotics, as moving objects impose time-dependent constraints. Recent planning methods primarily focus on the spatial aspects, lacking the capability to directly incorporate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Xi Huang , Gergely Sóti , Christoph Ledermann , Björn Hein , Torsten Kröger