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We leverage convex and bilevel optimization techniques to develop a general gradient-based parameter learning framework for neural-symbolic (NeSy) systems. We demonstrate our framework with NeuPSL, a state-of-the-art NeSy architecture. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Charles Dickens , Changyu Gao , Connor Pryor , Stephen Wright , Lise Getoor

Multi-vehicle trajectory planning is a non-convex problem that becomes increasingly difficult in dense environments due to the rapid growth of collision constraints. Efficient exploration of feasible behaviors and resolution of tight…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Heye Huang , Yibin Yang , Wang Chen , Tiantian Chen , Xiaopeng Li , Sikai Chen

The computational demands of modern AI services are increasingly shifting execution beyond centralized clouds toward a computing continuum spanning edge and end devices. However, the scale, heterogeneity, and cross-layer dependencies of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Peihan Ye , Alfreds Lapkovskis , Alaa Saleh , Qiyang Zhang , Praveen Kumar Donta

Intelligent agents must reason over both continuous dynamics and discrete representations to generate effective plans in complex environments. Previous studies have shown that symbolic abstractions can emerge from neural effect predictors…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Fatih Dogangun , Burcu Kilic , Serdar Bahar , Emre Ugur

The field of Neural-Symbolic (NeSy) systems is growing rapidly. Proposed approaches show great promise in achieving symbiotic unions of neural and symbolic methods. However, a unifying framework is needed to organize common NeSy modeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Charles Dickens , Connor Pryor , Changyu Gao , Alon Albalak , Eriq Augustine , William Wang , Stephen Wright , Lise Getoor

Nowadays, Large Language Models (LLMs) have been gradually employed to solve complex tasks. To face the challenge, task decomposition has become an effective way, which proposes to divide a complex task into multiple simpler subtasks and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Yiliu Sun , Yanfang Zhang , Zicheng Zhao , Sheng Wan , Dacheng Tao , Chen Gong

Recent years have witnessed the rapid development of Neuro-Symbolic (NeSy) AI systems, which integrate symbolic reasoning into deep neural networks. However, most of the existing benchmarks for NeSy AI fail to provide long-horizon reasoning…

In this paper, we introduce FMapping, an efficient neural field mapping framework that facilitates the continuous estimation of a colorized point cloud map in real-time dense RGB SLAM. To achieve this challenging goal without depth, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Tongyan Hua , Haotian Bai , Zidong Cao , Lin Wang

This paper proposes a novel learning architecture for acquiring generalizable high-level symbolic skills from a few unlabeled low-level skill trajectory demonstrations. The architecture involves neural networks for symbol discovery and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Hakan Aktas , Yigit Yildirim , Ahmet Firat Gamsiz , Deniz Bilge Akkoc , Erhan Oztop , Emre Ugur

While modern policy optimization methods can do complex manipulation from sensory data, they struggle on problems with extended time horizons and multiple sub-goals. On the other hand, task and motion planning (TAMP) methods scale to long…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Michael James McDonald , Dylan Hadfield-Menell

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong potential in long-horizon decision-making tasks, such as embodied manipulation and web interaction. However, agents frequently struggle with endless trial-and-error loops or deviate from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Bin Wen , Ruoxuan Zhang , Yang Chen , Hongxia Xie , Lan-Zhe Guo

A factored Nonlinear Program (Factored-NLP) explicitly models the dependencies between a set of continuous variables and nonlinear constraints, providing an expressive formulation for relevant robotics problems such as manipulation planning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Joaquim Ortiz-Haro , Jung-Su Ha , Danny Driess , Erez Karpas , Marc Toussaint

Recent years have witnessed an emerging paradigm shift toward embodied artificial intelligence, in which an agent must learn to solve challenging tasks by interacting with its environment. There are several challenges in solving embodied…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Zhiwei Jia , Kaixiang Lin , Yizhou Zhao , Qiaozi Gao , Govind Thattai , Gaurav Sukhatme

Neurosymbolic (NeSy) AI studies the integration of neural networks (NNs) and symbolic reasoning based on logic. Usually, NeSy techniques focus on learning the neural, probabilistic and/or fuzzy parameters of NeSy models. Learning the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Matthias Möller , Arvid Norlander , Pedro Zuidberg Dos Martires , Luc De Raedt

Deep learning models such as CNNs have surpassed human performance in computer vision tasks such as image classification. However, despite their sophistication, these models lack interpretability which can lead to biased outcomes reflecting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Parth Padalkar , Huaduo Wang , Gopal Gupta

Imitation learning is a popular method for teaching robots new behaviors. However, most existing methods focus on teaching short, isolated skills rather than long, multi-step tasks. To bridge this gap, imitation learning algorithms must not…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Leon Keller , Daniel Tanneberg , Jan Peters

Robots deployed in many real-world settings need to be able to acquire new skills and solve new tasks over time. Prior works on planning with skills often make assumptions on the structure of skills and tasks, such as subgoal skills, shared…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Jacky Liang , Mohit Sharma , Alex LaGrassa , Shivam Vats , Saumya Saxena , Oliver Kroemer

Long-horizon decision-making with sparse rewards and continuous states and actions remains a fundamental challenge in AI and robotics. Task and motion planning (TAMP) is a model-based framework that addresses this challenge by planning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Y. Isabel Liu , Bowen Li , Benjamin Eysenbach , Tom Silver

In this paper, we propose a learning algorithm that speeds up the search in task and motion planning problems. Our algorithm proposes solutions to three different challenges that arise in learning to improve planning efficiency: what to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Beomjoon Kim , Zi Wang , Leslie Pack Kaelbling , Tomas Lozano-Perez

This paper analyzes the learnability of neuro-symbolic (NeSy) tasks within hybrid systems. We show that the learnability of NeSy tasks can be characterized by their derived constraint satisfaction problems (DCSPs). Specifically, a task is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Hao-Yuan He , Ming Li