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Large language model (LLM) agents have recently demonstrated strong capabilities in interactive decision-making, yet they remain fundamentally limited in long-horizon tasks that require structured planning and reliable execution. Existing…

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Large language models (LLMs) are moving beyond static uses and are now powering agents that learn continually during their interaction with external environments. For example, agents can learn reusable skills while navigating web pages or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Simon Yu , Gang Li , Weiyan Shi , Peng Qi

This study introduces intelligent frameworks that use Large Language Models (LLMs) to improve task scheduling for construction robots. The LLM is fed with key data about the desired task, such as agent action abilities, and the desired end…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Swayamjit Saha , Subhabrata Das , Haonan Duan , Xiao-Yang Liu

Recent research in Cooperative Coevolution~(CC) have achieved promising progress in solving large-scale global optimization problems. However, existing CC paradigms have a primary limitation in that they require deep expertise for selecting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Hongshu Guo , Wenjie Qiu , Zeyuan Ma , Xinglin Zhang , Jun Zhang , Yue-Jiao Gong

We propose a methodology that combines several advanced techniques in Large Language Model (LLM) retrieval to support the development of robust, multi-source question-answer systems. This methodology is designed to integrate information…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Antony Seabra , Claudio Cavalcante , Joao Nepomuceno , Lucas Lago , Nicolaas Ruberg , Sergio Lifschitz

Training a generalizable agent to continually learn a sequence of tasks from offline trajectories is a natural requirement for long-lived agents, yet remains a significant challenge for current offline reinforcement learning (RL)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Shengchao Hu , Yuhang Zhou , Ziqing Fan , Jifeng Hu , Li Shen , Ya Zhang , Dacheng Tao

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been shown to act like planners that can decompose high-level instructions into a sequence of executable instructions. However, current LLM-based planners are only able to operate with a fixed set of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Meenal Parakh , Alisha Fong , Anthony Simeonov , Tao Chen , Abhishek Gupta , Pulkit Agrawal

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) are fostering their integration into several reasoning-related fields, including Automated Planning (AP). However, their integration into Hierarchical Planning (HP), a subfield of AP that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Israel Puerta-Merino , Carlos Núñez-Molina , Pablo Mesejo , Juan Fernández-Olivares

While recent progress has spawned very powerful machine learning systems, those agents remain extremely specialized and fail to transfer the knowledge they gain to similar yet unseen tasks. In this paper, we study a simple reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Remi Tachet , Philip Bachman , Harm van Seijen

Language model (LM) pre-training is useful in many language processing tasks. But can pre-trained LMs be further leveraged for more general machine learning problems? We propose an approach for using LMs to scaffold learning and…

In cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL), efficient exploration is crucial for optimizing the performance of joint policy. However, existing methods often update joint policies via independent agent exploration, without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Zejiao Liu , Junqi Tu , Yitian Hong , Luolin Xiong , Yaochu Jin , Yang Tang , Fangfei Li

Policy design for various systems controllers has conventionally been a manual process, with domain experts carefully tailoring heuristics for the specific instance in which the policy will be deployed. In this paper, we re-imagine policy…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Rohit Dwivedula , Divyanshu Saxena , Aditya Akella , Swarat Chaudhuri , Daehyeok Kim

Hierarchical coarse-to-fine policy, where a coarse branch predicts a region of interest to guide a fine-grained action predictor, has demonstrated significant potential in robotic 3D manipulation tasks by especially enhancing sample…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Jianshu Hu , Lidi Wang , Shujia Li , Yunpeng Jiang , Xiao Li , Paul Weng , Yutong Ban

Multi-agent systems of large language models (LLMs) show promise for complex reasoning, but their effectiveness is often limited by fixed collaboration protocols. These frameworks typically focus on macro-level orchestration while…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Wei Yang , Jesse Thomason

We present GLAS: Global-to-Local Autonomy Synthesis, a provably-safe, automated distributed policy generation for multi-robot motion planning. Our approach combines the advantage of centralized planning of avoiding local minima with the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Benjamin Rivière , Wolfgang Hoenig , Yisong Yue , Soon-Jo Chung

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable performance in various basic natural language tasks. For completing the complex task, we still need a plan for the task to guide LLMs to generate the specific solutions step by step. LLMs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Yiduo Guo , Yaobo Liang , Chenfei Wu , Wenshan Wu , Dongyan Zhao , Nan Duan

Large language models (LLMs) demonstrate remarkable capabilities in natural language understanding and generation. Despite being trained on large-scale, high-quality data, LLMs still fail to outperform traditional static analysis tools in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Ying Zhou , Jiacheng Wei , Yu Qi , Faguo Wu , Xiao Zhang

LLM-based automatic heuristic design has shown promise for generating executable heuristics for combinatorial optimization, but existing methods mainly rely on delayed endpoint performance. We propose a \emph{teacher-aware evolutionary…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Minyu Chen , Song Qin , Ling-I Wu , Jianxin Xue , Guoqiang Li

Reinforcement learning agents that operate in diverse and complex environments can benefit from the structured decomposition of their behavior. Often, this is addressed in the context of hierarchical reinforcement learning, where the aim is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Anirudh Goyal , Shagun Sodhani , Jonathan Binas , Xue Bin Peng , Sergey Levine , Yoshua Bengio

Policy learning focuses on devising strategies for agents in embodied artificial intelligence systems to perform optimal actions based on their perceived states. One of the key challenges in policy learning involves handling complex,…

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