arXiv:2505. 13372v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent work investigated the use of Reinforcement Learning (RL) for the synthesis of heuristic guidance to improve the performance of temporal planners when a domain is fixed and a set of training problems (not plans) is given.
By Irene Brugnara, Alessandro Valentini, Andrea Micheli
arXiv:2606. 06877v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Task planning often suffers from severe efficiency bottlenecks when robots must reason over long-horizon action sequences under complex logical constraints, including object affordances, spatial relationships, and sequential action dependencies.
By Qiwei Du, Zitong Zhan, Shaoshu Su, Bowen Li, Yi Du, Zhipeng Zhao, Taimeng Fu, Sebastian Scherer, Jiaoyang Li, Chen Wang
arXiv:2508. 08983v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Humans can learn a new manipulation task from one or two demonstrations and then perform it in a new room, with new objects, under new constraints.
By Ben Zandonati, Tom\'as Lozano-P\'erez, Leslie Pack Kaelbling
arXiv:2608. 19891v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: How to efficiently finetune robot policies to learn new tasks on the fly?
By Bhavya Sukhija, Oliver Groth, Mohit Shridhar, Tim Hertweck, Michael Bloesch, Markus Wulfmeier, Abbas Abdolmaleki, Martin Riedmiller
arXiv:2508. 14751v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study goal-conditioned reinforcement learning in partially observable environments with sparse rewards and large, structured goal spaces.
By Thomas Carta, Cl\'ement Romac, Loris Gaven, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, Olivier Sigaud, Sylvain Lamprier
The paper introduces a dual‑process architecture for nonlinear motion planning that blends fast, learning‑based intuition (System‑1) with slow, robust symbolic reasoning (System‑2). A metacognitive controller decides when to use each component, aiming to balance speed, precision, and adaptability. Experiments on diverse benchmark environments show consistent improvements in planning efficiency, accuracy, and generalization, highlighting the benefits of integrating learning with structured reasoning.
By Jiayi Yan, Francesco Fabiano, Alessandro Abate
arXiv:2504. 17901v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Task and motion planning (TAMP) is a well-established approach for solving long-horizon robot planning problems.
By Benned Hedegaard, Yichen Wei, Ziyi Yang, Ahmed Jaafar, Stefanie Tellex, George Konidaris, Naman Shah
arXiv:2512. 00062v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Robotic policy learning for complex real-world manipulation tasks has seen rapid recent progress, enabled in large part by the ability to collect demonstrations through human operation.
By Taewook Nam, Junmo Cho, Youngsoo Jang, Sung Ju Hwang
The paper introduces OHCAM, an online method for learning action models that include conditional and quantified effects from limited interactions. It maintains a belief over possible models and actively chooses actions that maximize disagreement among hypotheses to reduce uncertainty, while handling noisy observations. Starting with simple hypotheses, OHCAM expands complexity only when necessary, achieving sample‑efficient learning that outperforms baselines on benchmark domains and is validated on a Kinova Gen3 robot.
By Jeffrey Jewett, William Solow, Sandhya Saisubramanian
arXiv:2607. 17710v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have had a remarkable impact across many areas of machine learning.
By Ehsan Futuhi, Nathan R. Sturtevant
arXiv:2601. 19810v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Unsupervised pre-training can equip reinforcement learning agents with prior knowledge and accelerate learning in downstream tasks.
By Octavio Pappalardo
arXiv:2606. 10507v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities as autonomous agents across a wide range of tasks, their performance often degrades in multi-turn long-horizon agentic tasks.
By Juncheng Diao, Zhicong Lu, Peiguang Li, Yongwei Zhou, Changyuan Tian, Qingbin Li, Rongxiang Weng, Jingang Wang, Xunliang Cai