arXiv:2609.38108v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) enable agents to solve long-horizon tasks by generating a plan and then executing it in an environment. However, successfu...
By Subba Reddy Oota, Francisco Herrera, Jordi Cabot Sagrera, Marcos L\'opez de Prado, Shadab Khan
arXiv:2606. 02438v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learned heuristics have recently become a competitive alternative to traditional domain-independent heuristics for satisficing planning.
By Windy Phung, Dominik Drexler, Arnaud Lequen, Jendrik Seipp
arXiv:2608. 16637v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLMs remain unreliable for long-horizon planning, often generating logically inconsistent or non-applicable plans.
By Veit Laule, Jiangtao Shuai, Manfred Hauswirth, Sonja Schimmler
GRASP is a multi-stage planning framework that improves the reliability of large language models on complex tasks. It separates planning into three specialized modules—GenPlan for global macro-guidelines, RevPlan for exploring localized strategies, and VerPlan for multi-criteria evaluation—allowing context isolation and strict macro-regularization. Experiments show GRASP outperforms direct LLM planners by significant margins on datasets such as Natural Plan Calendar Scheduling, ZebraLogic, and SciBench Math, and it mitigates performance collapse in multi-task and dual-task settings.
By Arunabh Srivastava (Amir), Mohammad A. (Amir), Khojastepour, Srimat Chakradhar, Sennur Ulukus
GRASP is a multi-stage planning framework that separates planning into specialized modules: GenPlan for global macro-guidelines, RevPlan for exploring localized strategies, and VerPlan for multi-criteria evaluation. This strategy-aware approach yields state‑of‑the‑art accuracy on diverse datasets, outperforming direct LLM planners by up to 30.8% on ZebraLogic and reducing multi‑task degradation. GRASP’s context isolation and macro‑regularization also give it a 14.5% edge over frontier reasoning models like GPT‑5‑mini.
arXiv:2501. 18784v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Heuristics are a central component of deterministic planning, particularly in domain-independent settings where general applicability is prioritized over task-specific tuning.
By Alexander Tuisov, Yonatan Vernik, Alexander Shleyfman
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:2603. 23800v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present a novel LLM-informed model-based planning framework, and a novel prompt selection method, for object search in partially-known environments.
By Abhishek Paudel, Abhish Khanal, Raihan I. Arnob, Shahriar Hossain, Gregory J. Stein
arXiv:2607. 08894v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) agents have shown promise in multi-step planning tasks, but existing approaches like LATS (Language Agent Tree Search) and ReAct rely heavily on LLM inference during planning, leading to high computational costs and stochastic behavior.
By Maureese Williams, Dymitr Nowicki
Reinforced Planning with Latent World Models (RP1) is a novel method that learns to evaluate imagined outcomes via a critic and to improve multi‑step plans through an optimizer trained offline on world‑model roll‑outs. It is the first approach to fully learn plan improvement and can be attached to any pretrained latent world model. In experiments on visual navigation, arm reaching, and robotic manipulation, RP1 outperforms hand‑designed search algorithms, achieving near‑perfect success while using far fewer roll‑outs and running up to 67× faster than the strongest alternative.
By Armin Sommer, Jannik Schilling
arXiv:2608. 00832v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Structured plan-generation agents are often evaluated as if a plan has quality in isolation, yet many realistic planning tasks require asking how a candidate behaves when another agent can search for responses.
By Alina Kapanova, Arun Kanhai, Natan Vidra, Spurthi Setty
arXiv:2605. 29649v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Heuristic search is the dominant paradigm in symbolic AI planning, and the strongest heuristics are the result of decades of work by planning researchers.
By Elliot Gestrin, Jendrik Seipp