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Planning with world models offers a powerful paradigm for robotic control. Conventional approaches train a model to predict future frames conditioned on current frames and actions, which can then be used for planning. However, the objective…

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Relational knowledge bases (KBs) are commonly used to represent world knowledge in machines. However, while advantageous for their high degree of precision and interpretability, KBs are usually organized according to manually-defined…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Tara Safavi , Danai Koutra

One significant simplification in most previous work on robot learning is the closed-world assumption where the robot is assumed to know ahead of time a complete set of predicates describing the state of the physical world. However, robots…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Qiaozi Gao , Lanbo She , Joyce Y. Chai

In this work, we aim at equipping pre-trained language models with structured knowledge. We present two self-supervised tasks learning over raw text with the guidance from knowledge graphs. Building upon entity-level masked language models,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Tao Shen , Yi Mao , Pengcheng He , Guodong Long , Adam Trischler , Weizhu Chen

When allowing concurrent actions in Markov Decision Processes, whose state and action spaces grow exponentially in the number of objects, computing a policy becomes highly inefficient, as it requires enumerating the joint of the two spaces.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Florian Andreas Marwitz , Tanya Braun , Ralf Möller , Marcel Gehrke

The notion of concept has been studied for centuries, by philosophers, linguists, cognitive scientists, and researchers in artificial intelligence (Margolis & Laurence, 1999). There is a large literature on formal, mathematical models of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Stephen Clark , Alexander Lerchner , Tamara von Glehn , Olivier Tieleman , Richard Tanburn , Misha Dashevskiy , Matko Bosnjak

Ontologies are known for their ability to organize rich metadata, support the identification of novel insights via semantic queries, and promote reuse. In this paper, we consider the problem of automated planning, where the objective is to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Bharath Muppasani , Vishal Pallagani , Biplav Srivastava , Raghava Mutharaju , Michael N. Huhns , Vignesh Narayanan

Words (phrases or symbols) play a key role in human life. Word (phrase or symbol) representation is the fundamental problem for knowledge representation and understanding. A word (phrase or symbol) usually represents a name of a category.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-12-07 Jian Yu

Video-based representations have gained prominence in planning and decision-making due to their ability to encode rich spatiotemporal dynamics and geometric relationships. These representations enable flexible and generalizable solutions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Po-Chen Ko , Jiayuan Mao , Yu-Hsiang Fu , Hsien-Jeng Yeh , Chu-Rong Chen , Wei-Chiu Ma , Yilun Du , Shao-Hua Sun

We consider the problem of computing optimal generalised policies for relational Markov decision processes. We describe an approach combining some of the benefits of purely inductive techniques with those of symbolic dynamic programming…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-07-19 Charles Gretton , Sylvie Thiebaux

Recent advances in large vision-language models (LVLMs) have shown promise for embodied task planning, yet they struggle with fundamental challenges like dependency constraints and efficiency. Existing approaches either solely optimize…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Siyin Wang , Zhaoye Fei , Qinyuan Cheng , Shiduo Zhang , Panpan Cai , Jinlan Fu , Xipeng Qiu

First-order relational languages have been used in MDP planning and reinforcement learning (RL) for two main purposes: specifying MDPs in compact form, and representing and learning policies that are general and not tied to specific…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Simon Ståhlberg , Hector Geffner

The use of symbolic knowledge representation and reasoning as a way to resolve the lack of transparency of machine learning classifiers is a research area that lately attracts many researchers. In this work, we use knowledge graphs as the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Edmund Dervakos , Orfeas Menis-Mastromichalakis , Alexandros Chortaras , Giorgos Stamou

Enhancing the reasoning capabilities of language models (LMs) remains a key challenge, especially for tasks that require complex, multi-step decision-making where existing Chain-of-Thought (CoT) approaches struggle with consistency and…

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Classical Decision Theory provides a normative framework for representing and reasoning about complex preferences. Straightforward application of this theory to automate decision making is difficult due to high elicitation cost. In response…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-30 Vu A. Ha , Peter Haddawy

We introduce the relational ontology log, or relational olog, a knowledge representation system based on the category of sets and relations. It is inspired by Spivak and Kent's olog, a recent categorical framework for knowledge…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-11-02 Evan Patterson

In this paper we address the problem of planning in rich domains, where knowledge representation is a key aspect for managing the complexity and size of the planning domain. We follow the approach of Description Logic (DL) based Dynamic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-07-31 Valerio Senni , Michele Stawowy

The recent usage of technical systems in human-centric environments leads to the question, how to teach technical systems, e.g., robots, to understand, learn, and perform tasks desired by the human. Therefore, an accurate representation of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Kristina Scharei , Florian Heidecker , Maarten Bieshaar

A crucial capability of real-world intelligent agents is their ability to plan a sequence of actions to achieve their goals in the visual world. In this work, we address the problem of visual semantic planning: the task of predicting a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Yuke Zhu , Daniel Gordon , Eric Kolve , Dieter Fox , Li Fei-Fei , Abhinav Gupta , Roozbeh Mottaghi , Ali Farhadi

Procedural planning, which entails decomposing a high-level goal into a sequence of temporally ordered steps, is an important yet intricate task for machines. It involves integrating common-sense knowledge to reason about complex and often…