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Pipeline from an underspecified instruction and scene graph, through LLM goal inference and verification, to a symbolic plan

LLM-Guided Common-Sense Planning for Long-Horizon Underspecified Tasks

Working paper · October 2026 In progress

Instructions like “set the dining table” name an activity but never state the goal. An LLM infers grounded PDDL goal predicates from a 3D scene graph, the predicates are verified against the planning domain and repaired through a feedback loop, and a symbolic planner produces the plan. The LLM supplies the common sense; the planner keeps the plan correct.

Anticipatory planning cost used to rank sampled placements inside a task and motion planner

Anticipation as a Prior for Efficient Sampling in Task and Motion Planning

IROS 2026 Workshop on Search Algorithms for Robot Learning · Pittsburgh, PA · September 27, 2026

A sample that is feasible right now can still leave the scene in a state that makes later actions of the same plan harder to refine, triggering failures and replanning. We rank sampled candidates by a learned anticipatory cost and attempt them in increasing order, leaving the sampler, feasibility checks and objective untouched. At a matched sampling budget this cuts planning time by up to 34% and search evaluations by up to 53%.

Anticipatory task and motion planning teaser figure

Anticipatory Task and Motion Planning: Improved Rearrangement in Persistent Continuous-Space Environments

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) · 2025

We present a learning-augmented task and motion planning framework that anticipates the future impact of current actions and selects plans that reduce long-term cost across sequences of rearrangement tasks in persistent continuous-space environments.