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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…

Classical and natural language planning tasks remain a difficult domain for modern large language models (LLMs). In this work, we lay the foundations for improving planning capabilities of LLMs. First, we construct a comprehensive benchmark…

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Large language models (LLMs) augmented with multi-step reasoning and action generation abilities have shown promise in leveraging external tools to tackle complex tasks that require long-horizon planning. However, existing approaches either…