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The ability to plan for multi-step manipulation tasks in unseen situations is crucial for future home robots. But collecting sufficient experience data for end-to-end learning is often infeasible in the real world, as deploying robots in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Chen Wang , Danfei Xu , Li Fei-Fei

We present POAPS, a novel planning system for defining Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) that abstracts away from POMDP details for the benefit of non-expert practitioners. POAPS includes an expressive adaptive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-09-01 Christopher H. Lin , Mausam , Daniel S. Weld

The logics of knowledge are modal logics that have been shown to be effective in representing and reasoning about knowledge in multi-agent domains. Relatively few computational frameworks for dealing with computation of models and useful…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-07-22 Chitta Baral , Gregory Gelfond , Enrico Pontelli , Tran Cao Son

Epistemic planning is the sub-field of AI planning that focuses on changing knowledge and belief. It is important in both multi-agent domains where agents need to have knowledge/belief regarding the environment, but also the beliefs of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Guang Hu , Tim Miller , Nir Lipovetzky

When automating plan generation for a real-world sequential decision problem, the goal is often not to replace the human planner, but to facilitate an iterative reasoning and elicitation process, where the human's role is to guide the AI…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Guilhem Fouilhé , Rebecca Eifler , Antonin Poché , Sylvie Thiébaux , Nicholas Asher

Probabilistic mental simulation is thought to play a key role in human reasoning, planning, and prediction, yet the demands of simulation in complex environments exceed realistic human capacity limits. A theory with growing evidence is that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Tony Chen , Sam Cheyette , Kelsey Allen , Joshua Tenenbaum , Kevin Smith

Existing agents based on large language models (LLMs) demonstrate robust problem-solving capabilities by integrating LLMs' inherent knowledge, strong in-context learning and zero-shot capabilities, and the use of tools combined with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Yulong Wang , Tianhao Shen , Lifeng Liu , Jian Xie

In this paper we address the problem of planning in rich domains, where knowledge representation is a key aspect for managing the complexity and size of the planning domain. We follow the approach of Description Logic (DL) based Dynamic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-07-31 Valerio Senni , Michele Stawowy

The assumption of complete domain knowledge is not warranted for robot planning and decision-making in the real world. It could be due to design flaws or arise from domain ramifications or qualifications. In such cases, existing planning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Akshay Sharma , Piyush Rajesh Medikeri , Yu Zhang

Search and planning algorithms have been a cornerstone of artificial intelligence since the field's inception. Giving reinforcement learning agents the ability to plan during execution time has resulted in significant performance…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Carlos Martin , Tuomas Sandholm

The use of Dynamic Epistemic Logic (DEL) in multi-agent planning has led to a widely adopted action formalism that can handle nondeterminism, partial observability and arbitrary knowledge nesting. As such expressive power comes at the cost…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Alessandro Burigana , Paolo Felli , Marco Montali , Nicolas Troquard

Reasoning in a complex and ambiguous environment is a key goal for Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents. While some sophisticated RL agents can successfully solve difficult tasks, they require a large amount of training data and often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Ishita Dasgupta , Christine Kaeser-Chen , Kenneth Marino , Arun Ahuja , Sheila Babayan , Felix Hill , Rob Fergus

This paper describes Picat's planner, its implementation, and planning models for several domains used in International Planning Competition (IPC) 2014. Picat's planner is implemented by use of tabling. During search, every state…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Neng-Fa Zhou , Roman Bartak , Agostino Dovier

Replanning via determinization is a recent, popular approach for online planning in MDPs. In this paper we adapt this idea to classical, non-stochastic domains with partial information and sensing actions, presenting a new planner: SDR…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-01-24 Ronen I. Brafman , Guy Shani

Building deep reinforcement learning agents that can generalize and adapt to unseen environments remains a fundamental challenge for AI. This paper describes progresses on this challenge in the context of man-made environments, which are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-01 Yi Wu , Yuxin Wu , Aviv Tamar , Stuart Russell , Georgia Gkioxari , Yuandong Tian

This paper shows how we can combine logical representations of actions and decision theory in such a manner that seems natural for both. In particular we assume an axiomatization of the domain in terms of situation calculus, using what is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-02-18 David L. Poole

Large Language Model (LLM) agents have demonstrated impressive capabilities in handling complex interactive problems. Existing LLM agents mainly generate natural language plans to guide reasoning, which is verbose and inefficient. NL plans…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Zouying Cao , Runze Wang , Yifei Yang , Xinbei Ma , Xiaoyong Zhu , Bo Zheng , Hai Zhao

We introduce a new method that extracts knowledge from a large language model (LLM) to produce object-level plans, which describe high-level changes to object state, and uses them to bootstrap task and motion planning (TAMP). Existing work…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-24 David Paulius , Alejandro Agostini , Benedict Quartey , George Konidaris

In this work, we present a new planning formalism called Expectation-Aware planning for decision making with humans in the loop where the human's expectations about an agent may differ from the agent's own model. We show how this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Sarath Sreedharan , Tathagata Chakraborti , Christian Muise , Subbarao Kambhampati

We propose a novel algorithm for epistemic planning based on dynamic epistemic logic (DEL). The novelty is that we limit the depth of reasoning of the planning agent to an upper bound b, meaning that the planning agent can only reason about…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Thomas Bolander , Alessandro Burigana , Marco Montali