English
Related papers

Related papers: Subgoal Search For Complex Reasoning Tasks

200 papers

Pre-trained large language models have shown successful progress in many language understanding benchmarks. This work explores the capability of these models to predict actionable plans in real-world environments. Given a text instruction,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Lajanugen Logeswaran , Yao Fu , Moontae Lee , Honglak Lee

Reasoning remains a challenging task for large language models (LLMs), especially within the logically constrained environment of automated theorem proving (ATP), due to sparse rewards and the vast scale of proofs. These challenges are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Matthieu Zimmer , Xiaotong Ji , Rasul Tutunov , Anthony Bordg , Jun Wang , Haitham Bou Ammar

Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning and its variants have substantially improved the performance of language models on complex reasoning tasks, yet the precise mechanisms by which different strategies facilitate generalization remain poorly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Archiki Prasad , Mandar Joshi , Kenton Lee , Mohit Bansal , Peter Shaw

We present a causality-based algorithm for solving two-player reachability games represented by logical constraints. These games are a useful formalism to model a wide array of problems arising, e.g., in program synthesis. Our technique for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Christel Baier , Norine Coenen , Bernd Finkbeiner , Florian Funke , Simon Jantsch , Julian Siber

Goal recognition is a fundamental cognitive process that enables individuals to infer intentions based on available cues. Current goal recognition algorithms often take only observed actions as input, but here we use a Bayesian framework to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Chenyuan Zhang , Charles Kemp , Nir Lipovetzky

The Knowledge Graph Completion~(KGC) task aims to infer the missing entity from an incomplete triple. Existing embedding-based methods rely solely on triples in the KG, which is vulnerable to specious relation patterns and long-tail…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Muzhi Li , Cehao Yang , Chengjin Xu , Xuhui Jiang , Yiyan Qi , Jian Guo , Ho-fung Leung , Irwin King

The application of Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT-2) to learn text-archived game notation provides a model environment for exploring sparse reward gameplay. The transformer architecture proves amenable to training on solved text…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-08 David Noever , Ryerson Burdick

Given an array A of n real numbers, the maximum subarray problem is to find a contiguous subarray which has the largest sum. The k-maximum subarrays problem is to find k such subarrays with the largest sums. For the 1-maximum subarray the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Hemant Malik , Ovidiu Daescu

In this paper, we consider a transfer reinforcement learning problem involving agents with different action spaces. Specifically, for any new unseen task, the goal is to use a successful demonstration of this task by an expert agent in its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Kavinayan P. Sivakumar , Yan Zhang , Zachary Bell , Scott Nivison , Michael M. Zavlanos

Generative commonsense reasoning requires machines to generate sentences describing an everyday scenario given several concepts, which has attracted much attention recently. However, existing models cannot perform as well as humans, since…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Xin Liu , Dayiheng Liu , Baosong Yang , Haibo Zhang , Junwei Ding , Wenqing Yao , Weihua Luo , Haiying Zhang , Jinsong Su

Quantum computing has advanced rapidly in recent years and has shown advantages in a variety of domains. In this paper, we investigate its potential for discrete simulation optimization in the fixed-confidence setting, a fundamental problem…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Mingjie Hu , Jian-qiang Hu , Enlu Zhou

Finding the optimal ordering of k-subsets with respect to an objective function is known to be an extremely challenging problem. In this paper we introduce a new objective for this task, rooted in the problem of star identification on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-19 Joerg H. Mueller , Carlos Sánchez-Sánchez , Luís F. Simões , Dario Izzo

This paper presents a new framework for anytime heuristic search where the task is to achieve as many goals as possible within the allocated resources. We show the inadequacy of traditional distance-estimation heuristics for tasks of this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-03-19 D. Davidov , S. Markovitch

In hierarchical reinforcement learning a major challenge is determining appropriate low-level policies. We propose an unsupervised learning scheme, based on asymmetric self-play from Sukhbaatar et al. (2018), that automatically learns a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Sainbayar Sukhbaatar , Emily Denton , Arthur Szlam , Rob Fergus

Local search is a widely used technique for tackling challenging optimization problems, offering significant advantages in terms of computational efficiency and exhibiting strong empirical behavior across a wide range of problem domains. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Lars Rohwedder , Ashkan Safari , Tjark Vredeveld

Recent work in deep reinforcement learning (RL) has produced algorithms capable of mastering challenging games such as Go, chess, or shogi. In these works the RL agent directly observes the natural state of the game and controls that state…

Knowledge graphs (KGs) provide reliable external knowledge for a wide variety of AI tasks in the form of structured triples. Knowledge graph pre-training (KGP) aims to pre-train neural networks on large-scale KGs and provide unified…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Yichi Zhang , Binbin Hu , Zhuo Chen , Lingbing Guo , Ziqi Liu , Zhiqiang Zhang , Lei Liang , Huajun Chen , Wen Zhang

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive versatility across various tasks. To eliminate their hallucinations, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has emerged as a powerful approach, leveraging external…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Yuzheng Cai , Zhenyue Guo , Yiwen Pei , Wanrui Bian , Weiguo Zheng

Clustering is one of the most fundamental tools in data science and machine learning, and k-means clustering is one of the most common such methods. There is a variety of approximate algorithms for the k-means problem, but computing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-22 Martin Ryner , Jan Kronqvist , Johan Karlsson

Search-based procedural content generation uses stochastic global optimization algorithms to search for game content. However, standard tree search algorithms can be competitive with evolution on some optimization problems. We investigate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Debosmita Bhaumik , Ahmed Khalifa , Michael Cerny Green , Julian Togelius