Counting and Reasoning with PlansShow others and affiliations
2025 (English)In: Proceedings of the 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'25) / [ed] Toby Walsh, Julie Shah, Zico Kolter, AAAI Press, 2025, Vol. 39 (25), p. 26688-26696Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Classical planning asks for a sequence of operators reach-ing a given goal. While the most common case is to compute a plan, many scenarios require more than that. However, quantitative reasoning on the plan space remains mostly unexplored. A fundamental problem is to count plans, which relates to the conditional probability on the plan space. Indeed, qualitative and quantitative approaches are well-established in various other areas of automated reasoning.
We present the first study to quantitative and qualitative reasoning on the plan space. In particular, we focus on polynomially bounded plans. On the theoretical side, we study its complexity, which gives rise to rich reasoning modes. Sincecounting is hard in general, we introduce the easier notion of facets, which enables understanding the significance of operators. On the practical side, we implement quantitative reasoning for planning. Thereby, we transform a planning task into a propositional formula and use knowledge compilationto count different plans. This framework scales well to largeplan spaces, while enabling rich reasoning capabilities suchas learning pruning functions and explainable planning.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
AAAI Press, 2025. Vol. 39 (25), p. 26688-26696
Series
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ISSN 2159-5399, E-ISSN 2374-3468 ; 39
National Category
Computer Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-211351DOI: 10.1609/aaai.v39i25.34871ISI: 001477487000055Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105003948978ISBN: 9781577358978 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-211351DiVA, id: diva2:1934435
Conference
The 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, February 25 – March 4, 2025
Funder
ELLIIT - The Linköping‐Lund Initiative on IT and Mobile Communications
Note
Funding Agencies|Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) as part of the project "Unifying the Theory and Algorithms of Factored State-Space Search" (UTA); Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [J 4656, P 32830]; Society for Research Funding in Lower Austria (GFF, Gesellschaft fur Forschungsforderung NO) [ExzF-0004]; Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) [ICT19-065]; ELLIIT - Swedish government
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