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AI policy guidance is predominantly written as prose, which practitioners must first convert into executable rules before frameworks can evaluate or enforce them. This manual step is slow, error-prone, difficult to scale, and often delays…

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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

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have shown significant promise in various domains, especially robotics. However, most prior LLM-based work in robotic applications either directly predicts waypoints or applies LLMs within…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Yue Meng , Fei Chen , Yongchao Chen , Chuchu Fan

In robotics, the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) is becoming prevalent, especially for understanding human commands. In particular, LLMs are utilized as domain-agnostic task planners for high-level human commands. LLMs are capable of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Gawon Choi , Hyemin Ahn

Reasoning models (RMs), language models (LMs) trained with reinforcement learning to produce long-form natural language reasoning, have been remarkably successful, but they still require large amounts of computation and data to train, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Cedegao E. Zhang , Cédric Colas , Gabriel Poesia , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Jacob Andreas

The prominent large language models (LLMs) of today differ from past language models not only in size, but also in the fact that they are trained on a combination of natural language and formal language (code). As a medium between humans…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Ke Yang , Jiateng Liu , John Wu , Chaoqi Yang , Yi R. Fung , Sha Li , Zixuan Huang , Xu Cao , Xingyao Wang , Yiquan Wang , Heng Ji , Chengxiang Zhai

Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently shown promise as high-level planners for robots when given access to a selection of low-level skills. However, it is often assumed that LLMs do not possess sufficient knowledge to be used for the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Teyun Kwon , Norman Di Palo , Edward Johns

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have recently demonstrated strong capabilities in mapping multimodal observations to robot behaviors. However, most current approaches rely on end-to-end visuomotor policies that remain opaque and difficult to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Alessandro Adami , Tommaso Tubaldo , Marco Todescato , Ruggero Carli , Pietro Falco

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have spurred interest in using them for generating robot programs from natural language, with promising initial results. We investigate the use of LLMs to generate programs for service…

Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently empowered agentic frameworks to exhibit advanced reasoning and planning capabilities. However, their integration in robotic control pipelines remains limited in two aspects: (1) prior…

Embodied robots which can interact with their environment and neighbours are increasingly being used as a test case to develop Artificial Intelligence. This creates a need for multimodal robot controllers that can operate across different…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-05 William Hunt , Sarvapali D. Ramchurn , Mohammad D. Soorati

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been successful at generating robot policy code, but so far these results have been limited to high-level tasks that do not require precise movement. It is an open question how well such approaches work for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Kaylee Burns , Ajinkya Jain , Keegan Go , Fei Xia , Michael Stark , Stefan Schaal , Karol Hausman

This work introduces (1) a technique that allows large language models (LLMs) to leverage user-provided code when solving programming tasks and (2) a method to iteratively generate modular sub-functions that can aid future code generation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Patrick Hajali , Ignas Budvytis

In recent years, the integration of large language models (LLMs) has revolutionized the field of robotics, enabling robots to communicate, understand, and reason with human-like proficiency. This paper explores the multifaceted impact of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Yeseung Kim , Dohyun Kim , Jieun Choi , Jisang Park , Nayoung Oh , Daehyung Park

Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as a new paradigm for embodied reasoning and control, most recently by generating robot policy code that utilizes a custom library of vision and control primitive skills. However, prior arts fix…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Georgios Tziafas , Hamidreza Kasaei

Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision Language Models (VLMs) have become popular tools for embodied high-level planning. However, their deployment in black-box settings often leads to unpredictable or costly errors. To harness their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Hao Wang , Sathwik Karnik , Bea Lim , Somil Bansal

Enabling humanoid robots to perform autonomously loco-manipulation in unstructured environments is crucial and highly challenging for achieving embodied intelligence. This involves robots being able to plan their actions and behaviors in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Jin Wang , Arturo Laurenzi , Nikos Tsagarakis

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved tremendous progress, yet they still often struggle with challenging reasoning problems. Current approaches address this challenge by sampling or searching detailed and low-level reasoning chains.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Zhan Ling , Yunhao Fang , Xuanlin Li , Tongzhou Mu , Mingu Lee , Reza Pourreza , Roland Memisevic , Hao Su

The observed similarities in the behavior of humans and Large Language Models (LLMs) have prompted researchers to consider the potential of using LLMs as models of human cognition. However, several significant challenges must be addressed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Jian-Qiao Zhu , Haijiang Yan , Thomas L. Griffiths

In this work we propose a novel end-to-end imitation learning approach which combines natural language, vision, and motion information to produce an abstract representation of a task, which in turn is used to synthesize specific motion…

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