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Generalized planning aims to learn policies that generalize across collections of instances within a classical planning domain. Recent Graph Neural Network (GNN) approaches have learned nearly perfect policies for several domains. This work…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Michael Aichmüller , Simon Ståhlberg , Martin Funkquist , Hector Geffner

Most classical planners use grounding as a preprocessing step, essentially reducing planning to propositional logic. However, grounding involves instantiating all action rules with concrete object combinations, and results in large…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Irfansha Shaik , Jaco van de Pol

Goal Recognition is the task of discerning the correct intended goal that an agent aims to achieve, given a set of goal hypotheses, a domain model, and a sequence of observations (i.e., a sample of the plan executed in the environment).…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Ramon Fraga Pereira , Francesco Fuggitti , Felipe Meneguzzi , Giuseppe De Giacomo

This paper investigates a new approach to model-based reinforcement learning using background planning: mixing (approximate) dynamic programming updates and model-free updates, similar to the Dyna architecture. Background planning with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Kevin Roice , Parham Mohammad Panahi , Scott M. Jordan , Adam White , Martha White

In this work we propose a goal reasoning method which learns to select subgoals with Deep Q-Learning in order to decrease the load of a planner when faced with scenarios with tight time restrictions, such as online execution systems. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Carlos Núñez-Molina , Vladislav Nikolov , Ignacio Vellido , Juan Fernández-Olivares

While reinforcement learning methods have delivered remarkable results in a number of settings, generalization, i.e., the ability to produce policies that generalize in a reliable and systematic way, has remained a challenge. The problem of…

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

Instruction-tuned large language models (LLMs) have shown strong performance on a variety of tasks; however, generalizing from synthetic to human-authored instructions in grounded environments remains a challenge for them. In this work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Chalamalasetti Kranti , Sherzod Hakimov , David Schlangen

The problem of decentralized multi-robot target tracking asks for jointly selecting actions, e.g., motion primitives, for the robots to maximize target tracking performance with local communications. One major challenge for practical…

This paper presents new methods for analyzing and evaluating generalized plans that can solve broad classes of related planning problems. Although synthesis and learning of generalized plans has been a longstanding goal in AI, it remains…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Siddharth Srivastava

Object goal navigation is an important problem in Embodied AI that involves guiding the agent to navigate to an instance of the object category in an unknown environment -- typically an indoor scene. Unfortunately, current state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Junting Chen , Guohao Li , Suryansh Kumar , Bernard Ghanem , Fisher Yu

An important feature of pervasive, intelligent assistance systems is the ability to dynamically adapt to the current needs of their users. Hence, it is critical for such systems to be able to recognize those goals and needs based on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Nils Wilken , Lea Cohausz , Johannes Schaum , Stefan Lüdtke , Heiner Stuckenschmidt

The task of recognizing goals and plans from missing and full observations can be done efficiently by using automated planning techniques. In many applications, it is important to recognize goals and plans not only accurately, but also…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Ramon Fraga Pereira , Nir Oren , Felipe Meneguzzi

A hallmark of intelligence is the ability to deduce general principles from examples, which are correct beyond the range of those observed. Generalized Planning deals with finding such principles for a class of planning problems, so that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Or Rivlin , Tamir Hazan , Erez Karpas

Value alignment problems arise in scenarios where the specified objectives of an AI agent don't match the true underlying objective of its users. The problem has been widely argued to be one of the central safety problems in AI.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Malek Mechergui , Sarath Sreedharan

Recent advancements in Generative AI, particularly in Large Language Models (LLMs) and Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), offer new possibilities for integrating cognitive planning into robotic systems. In this work, we present a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Arjun P S , Andrew Melnik , Gora Chand Nandi

Foundation models compress a large amount of information in a single, large neural network, which can then be queried for individual tasks. There are strong parallels between this widespread framework and offline goal-conditioned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Marco Bagatella , Mert Albaba , Jonas Hübotter , Georg Martius , Andreas Krause

General policies represent reactive strategies for solving large families of planning problems like the infinite collection of solvable instances from a given domain. Methods for learning such policies from a collection of small training…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Till Hofmann , Hector Geffner

Goal recognition is the problem of recognizing the intended goal of autonomous agents or humans by observing their behavior in an environment. Over the past years, most existing approaches to goal and plan recognition have been ignoring the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Ramon Fraga Pereira

Computing goal-directed behavior is essential to designing efficient AI systems. Due to the computational complexity of planning, current approaches rely primarily upon hand-coded symbolic action models and hand-coded heuristic-function…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Rushang Karia , Siddharth Srivastava

Understanding an agent's goal through its behavior is a common AI problem called Goal Recognition (GR). This task becomes particularly challenging in dynamic environments where goals are numerous and ever-changing. We introduce the General…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Osher Elhadad , Owen Morrissey , Reuth Mirsky