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Domain-independent planning is one of the foundational areas in the field of Artificial Intelligence. A description of a planning task consists of an initial world state, a goal, and a set of actions for modifying the world state. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-01-24 Carmel Domshlak , Erez Karpas , Shaul Markovitch

Heuristic search is the dominant paradigm in symbolic AI planning, and the strongest heuristics are the result of decades of work by planning researchers. Recent work has shown that large language models (LLMs) can design heuristics for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Elliot Gestrin , Jendrik Seipp

The task of artificial intelligence is to provide representation techniques for describing problems, as well as search algorithms that can be used to answer our questions. A widespread and elaborated model is state-space representation,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-02-24 Tamás Kádek , János Pánovics

The assessment of bidirectional heuristic search has been incorrect since it was first published more than a quarter of a century ago. For quite a long time, this search strategy did not achieve the expected results, and there was a major…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-11-17 H. Kaindl , G. Kainz

In classical planning, the goal is to derive a course of actions that allows an intelligent agent to move from any situation it finds itself in to one that satisfies its goals. Classical planning is considered domain-independent, i.e., it…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-04-04 David Speck

In recent years, large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in various artificial intelligence problems. However, they fail to plan reliably, even when prompted with a detailed definition of the planning task. Attempts…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Augusto B. Corrêa , André G. Pereira , Jendrik Seipp

Metaheuristic search methods have proven to be essential tools for tackling complex optimization challenges, but their full potential is often constrained by conventional algorithmic frameworks. In this paper, we introduce a novel approach…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Abdel-Rahman Hedar , Alaa E. Abdel-Hakim , Wael Deabes , Youseef Alotaibi , Kheir Eddine Bouazza

Planning as theorem proving in situation calculus was abandoned 50 years ago as an impossible project. But we have developed a Theorem Proving Lifted Heuristic (TPLH) planner that searches for a plan in a tree of situations using the A*…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Mikhail Soutchanski , Ryan Young

Automated planning remains one of the most general paradigms in Artificial Intelligence, providing means of solving problems coming from a wide variety of domains. One of the key factors restricting the applicability of planning is its…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-24 Pawel Gomoluch , Dalal Alrajeh , Alessandra Russo , Antonio Bucchiarone

In this paper, we introduce a new heuristic search algorithm based on mean values for real-time planning, called MHSP. It consists in associating the principles of UCT, a bandit-based algorithm which gave very good results in computer…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Damien Pellier , Bruno Bouzy , Marc Métivier

Learning a well-informed heuristic function for hard task planning domains is an elusive problem. Although there are known neural network architectures to represent such heuristic knowledge, it is not obvious what concrete information is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Leah Chrestien , Tomas Pevny , Antonin Komenda , Stefan Edelkamp

Graph search planning algorithms for navigation typically rely heavily on heuristics to efficiently plan paths. As a result, while such approaches require no training phase and can directly plan long horizon paths, they often require…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Rishi Veerapaneni , Muhammad Suhail Saleem , Maxim Likhachev

We present a new approach to learning for planning, where knowledge acquired while solving a given set of planning problems is used to plan faster in related, but new problem instances. We show that a deep neural network can be used to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Edward Groshev , Maxwell Goldstein , Aviv Tamar , Siddharth Srivastava , Pieter Abbeel

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

One of the challenges in optimization of high dimensional problems is finding appropriate solutions in a way that are as close as possible to the global optima. In this regard, one of the most common phenomena that occurs is the curse of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-22 Somayeh Seifi Shalamzari , Mojtaba Banifakhr

BPS, the Bayesian Problem Solver, applies probabilistic inference and decision-theoretic control to flexible, resource-constrained problem-solving. This paper focuses on the Bayesian inference mechanism in BPS, and contrasts it with those…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-04-08 Othar Hansson , Andy Mayer

We consider an agent seeking to obtain an item, potentially available at different locations in a physical environment. The traveling costs between locations are known in advance, but there is only probabilistic knowledge regarding the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2015-09-29 Noam Hazon , Mira Gonen , Max Kleb

In automated planning, control parameters extend standard action representations through the introduction of continuous numeric decision variables. Existing state-of-the-art approaches have primarily handled control parameters as embedded…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Ángel Aso-Mollar , Diego Aineto , Enrico Scala , Eva Onaindia

The hm admissible heuristics for (sequential and temporal) regression planning are defined by a parameterized relaxation of the optimal cost function in the regression search space, where the parameter m offers a trade-off between the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-09-28 P. Haslum

This paper presents a non-manual design engineering method based on heuristic search algorithm to search for candidate agents in the solution space which formed by artificial intelligence agents modeled on the base of bionics.Compared with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Zengkun Li