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We define and study the problem of predicting the solution to a linear program (LP) given only partial information about its objective and constraints. This generalizes the problem of learning to predict the purchasing behavior of a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-27 Shahin Jabbari , Ryan Rogers , Aaron Roth , Zhiwei Steven Wu

Classical planning aims to find a sequence of actions, a plan, that maps a starting state into one of the goal states. If a trajectory appears to be leading to the goal, should we prioritise exploring it? Seminal work in goal recognition…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Giacomo Rosa , Jean Honorio , Nir Lipovetzky , Sebastian Sardina

Traditionally, Reinforcement Learning (RL) problems are aimed at optimization of the behavior of an agent. This paper proposes a novel take on RL, which is used to learn the policy of another agent, to allow real-time recognition of that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Matan Shamir , Osher Elhadad , Matthew E. Taylor , Reuth Mirsky

To coordinate with other agents in its environment, an agent needs models of what the other agents are trying to do. When communication is impossible or expensive, this information must be acquired indirectly via plan recognition. Typical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-02-28 Marcus J. Huber , Edmund H. Durfee , Michael P. Wellman

This work aims to make plan recognition as planning more ready for real-world scenarios by adapting previous compilations to work with partial-order, half-seen observations of both fluents and actions. We first redefine what observations…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Jennifer M. Nelson , Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera

Autonomous agents require some form of goal and plan recognition to interact in multiagent settings. Unfortunately, all existing goal recognition datasets suffer from a systematical bias induced by the planning systems that generated them,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Mustafa F. Abdelwahed , Felipe Meneguzzi Kin Max Piamolini Gusmao , Joan Espasa

In this work, we address the challenging problem of long-horizon goal-reaching policy learning from non-expert, action-free observation data. Unlike fully labeled expert data, our data is more accessible and avoids the costly process of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-09 RenMing Huang , Shaochong Liu , Yunqiang Pei , Peng Wang , Guoqing Wang , Yang Yang , Hengtao Shen

Recent advances in visual activity recognition have raised the possibility of applications such as automated video surveillance. Effective approaches for such problems however require the ability to recognize the plans of agents from video…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Yantian Zha , Yikang Li , Sriram Gopalakrishnan , Baoxin Li , Subbarao Kambhampati

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

Goal recognition is an important problem in many application domains (e.g., pervasive computing, intrusion detection, computer games, etc.). In many application scenarios, it is important that goal recognition algorithms can recognize goals…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Nils Wilken , Lea Cohausz , Christian Bartelt , Heiner Stuckenschmidt

Nonlinear programming targets nonlinear optimization with constraints, which is a generic yet complex methodology involving humans for problem modeling and algorithms for problem solving. We address the particularly hard challenge of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-29 David Hägele , Moataz Abdelaal , Ozgur S. Oguz , Marc Toussaint , Daniel Weiskopf

Plan recognition aims to discover target plans (i.e., sequences of actions) behind observed actions, with history plan libraries or domain models in hand. Previous approaches either discover plans by maximally "matching" observed actions to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-11-19 Xin Tian , Hankz Hankui Zhuo , Subbarao Kambhampati

Multi-constraint planning involves identifying, evaluating, and refining candidate plans while satisfying multiple, potentially conflicting constraints. Existing large language model (LLM) approaches face fundamental limitations in this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Derrick Goh Xin Deik , Quanyu Long , Zhengyuan Liu , Nancy F. Chen , Wenya Wang

A common challenge in real-time operations is deciding whether to re-solve an optimization problem or continue using an existing solution. While modern data platforms may collect information at high frequencies, many real-time operations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Rui Ai , Hugo De Oliveira Barbalho , Sirui Li , Alexei Robsky , David Simchi-Levi , Ishai Menache

Covert planning refers to a class of constrained planning problems where an agent aims to accomplish a task with minimal information leaked to a passive observer to avoid detection. However, existing methods of covert planning often…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Haoxiang Ma , Chongyang Shi , Shuo Han , Michael R. Dorothy , Jie Fu

Understanding an agent's goals from its behavior is fundamental to aligning AI systems with human intentions. Existing goal recognition methods typically rely on an optimal goal-oriented policy representation, which may differ from the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Osher Elhadad , Felipe Meneguzzi , Reuth Mirsky

Recent approaches to goal recognition have leveraged planning landmarks to achieve high-accuracy with low runtime cost. These approaches, however, lack a probabilistic interpretation. Furthermore, while most probabilistic models to goal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Kin Max Gusmão , Ramon Fraga Pereira , Felipe Meneguzzi

Deciding which sensing capabilities to deploy on an agent in uncertain domains is a fundamental engineering challenge, in which one balances task achievability against the high costs of hardware and processing. This problem has previously…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Adrian Zvizdenco , Arthur Conrado Veiga Bosquetti , Alberto Lluch Lafuente , Christoph Matheja

Solving Constraint Optimization Problems (COPs) can be dramatically simplified by boundary estimation, that is, providing tight boundaries of cost functions. By feeding a supervised Machine Learning (ML) model with data composed of known…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Helge Spieker , Arnaud Gotlieb

Recent approaches to goal and plan recognition using classical planning domains have achieved state of the art results in terms of both recognition time and accuracy by using heuristics based on planning landmarks. To achieve such fast…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Kin Max Piamolini Gusmão , Ramon Fraga Pereira , Felipe Meneguzzi