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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…

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

A longstanding objective in classical planning is to synthesize policies that generalize across multiple problems from the same domain. In this work, we study generalized policy search-based methods with a focus on the score function used…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Ryan Yang , Tom Silver , Aidan Curtis , Tomas Lozano-Perez , Leslie Pack Kaelbling

We present a dynamic policy-learning approach that combines generalized planning and hierarchical task decomposition for LLM-based agents. Our method, Hierarchical Component Learning for Generalized Policies (HCL-GP ), learns parameterized…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Shirin Sohrabi , Haritha Ananthakrishnan , Harsha Kokel , Kavitha Srinivas , Michael Katz

Scaling end-to-end reinforcement learning to control real robots from vision presents a series of challenges, in particular in terms of sample efficiency. Against end-to-end learning, state representation learning can help learn a compact,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Antonin Raffin , Ashley Hill , René Traoré , Timothée Lesort , Natalia Díaz-Rodríguez , David Filliat

Systematic Generalization refers to a learning algorithm's ability to extrapolate learned behavior to unseen situations that are distinct but semantically similar to its training data. As shown in recent work, state-of-the-art deep learning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Tong Gao , Qi Huang , Raymond J. Mooney

Generalized planning studies the construction of solution strategies that generalize across families of planning problems sharing a common domain model, formally defined by a transition function $\gamma : S \times A \rightarrow S$.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Nitin Gupta , Vishal Pallagani , John A. Aydin , Biplav Srivastava

Reinforcement learning is an appropriate and successful method to robustly perform low-level robot control under noisy conditions. Symbolic action planning is useful to resolve causal dependencies and to break a causally complex problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Manfred Eppe , Phuong D. H. Nguyen , Stefan Wermter

Reinforcement learning (RL) problems over general state and action spaces are notoriously challenging. In contrast to the tableau setting, one can not enumerate all the states and then iteratively update the policies for each state. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Caleb Ju , Guanghui Lan

A common strategy to deal with the expensive reinforcement learning (RL) of complex tasks is to decompose them into a collection of subtasks that are usually simpler to learn as well as reusable for new problems. However, when a robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Domingo Esteban , Leonel Rozo , Darwin G. Caldwell

We consider problems of making sequences of decisions to accomplish tasks, interacting via the medium of language. These problems are often tackled with reinforcement learning approaches. We find that these models do not generalize well…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Xusen Yin , Ralph Weischedel , Jonathan May

In this paper we present a general, flexible framework for learning mappings from images to actions by interacting with the environment. The basic idea is to introduce a feature-based image classifier in front of a reinforcement learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-10-12 S. R. Jodogne , J. H. Piater

Humans are capable of abstracting various tasks as different combinations of multiple attributes. This perspective of compositionality is vital for human rapid learning and adaption since previous experiences from related tasks can be…

The remarkable advancements in large language models (LLMs) have significantly enhanced the performance in few-shot learning settings. By using only a small number of labeled examples, referred to as demonstrations, LLMs can effectively…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Katerina Margatina , Timo Schick , Nikolaos Aletras , Jane Dwivedi-Yu

The improvement of economic policymaking presents an opportunity for broad societal benefit, a notion that has inspired research towards AI-driven policymaking tools. AI policymaking holds the potential to surpass human performance through…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Henry Gasztowtt , Benjamin Smith , Vincent Zhu , Qinxun Bai , Edwin Zhang

Recently, incorporating natural language instructions into reinforcement learning (RL) to learn semantically meaningful representations and foster generalization has caught many concerns. However, the semantical information in language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Yihan Li , Jinsheng Ren , Tianrun Xu , Tianren Zhang , Haichuan Gao , Feng Chen

Reinforcement learning (RL) methods have been shown to be capable of learning intelligent behavior in rich domains. However, this has largely been done in simulated domains without adequate focus on the process of building the simulator. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Aditya Modi , Nan Jiang , Ambuj Tewari , Satinder Singh

We propose a general-purpose approach to discovering active learning (AL) strategies from data. These strategies are transferable from one domain to another and can be used in conjunction with many machine learning models. To this end, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Ksenia Konyushkova , Raphael Sznitman , Pascal Fua

Many real-world decision-making problems are combinatorial in nature, where states (e.g., surrounding traffic of a self-driving car) can be seen as a combination of basic elements (e.g., pedestrians, trees, and other cars). Due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Xintong Duan , Yutong He , Fahim Tajwar , Wen-Tse Chen , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Jeff Schneider

Learning to evaluate and improve policies is a core problem of Reinforcement Learning (RL). Traditional RL algorithms learn a value function defined for a single policy. A recently explored competitive alternative is to learn a single value…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Francesco Faccio , Aditya Ramesh , Vincent Herrmann , Jean Harb , Jürgen Schmidhuber

Complex, multi-task problems have proven to be difficult to solve efficiently in a sparse-reward reinforcement learning setting. In order to be sample efficient, multi-task learning requires reuse and sharing of low-level policies. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Valerie Chen , Abhinav Gupta , Kenneth Marino