From machine learning to robotics: Challenges and opportunities for embodied intelligence

N Roy, I Posner, T Barfoot, P Beaudoin… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Machine learning has long since become a keystone technology, accelerating science and
applications in a broad range of domains. Consequently, the notion of applying learning …

Modular design patterns for hybrid learning and reasoning systems: a taxonomy, patterns and use cases

M van Bekkum, M de Boer, F van Harmelen… - Applied …, 2021 - Springer
The unification of statistical (data-driven) and symbolic (knowledge-driven) methods is
widely recognized as one of the key challenges of modern AI. Recent years have seen a …

Learning general optimal policies with graph neural networks: Expressive power, transparency, and limits

S Ståhlberg, B Bonet, H Geffner - Proceedings of the International …, 2022 - ojs.aaai.org
It has been recently shown that general policies for many classical planning domains can be
expressed and learned in terms of a pool of features defined from the domain predicates …

Plannable approximations to mdp homomorphisms: Equivariance under actions

E Van der Pol, T Kipf, FA Oliehoek… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
This work exploits action equivariance for representation learning in reinforcement learning.
Equivariance under actions states that transitions in the input space are mirrored by …

Learning general policies with policy gradient methods

S Ståhlberg, B Bonet, H Geffner - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - proceedings.kr.org
While reinforcement learning methods have delivered remarkable results in a number of
settings, generalization, ie, the ability to produce policies that generalize in a reliable and …

Learning generalized policies without supervision using gnns

S Ståhlberg, B Bonet, H Geffner - arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.06002, 2022 - arxiv.org
We consider the problem of learning generalized policies for classical planning domains
using graph neural networks from small instances represented in lifted STRIPS. The …

Learning neuro-symbolic relational transition models for bilevel planning

R Chitnis, T Silver, JB Tenenbaum… - 2022 IEEE/RSJ …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In robotic domains, learning and planning are complicated by continuous state spaces,
continuous action spaces, and long task horizons. In this work, we address these challenges …

Natural language instruction-following with task-related language development and translation

JC Pang, XY Yang, SH Yang… - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Natural language-conditioned reinforcement learning (RL) enables agents to follow human
instructions. Previous approaches generally implemented language-conditioned RL by …

Learning first-order symbolic representations for planning from the structure of the state space

B Bonet, H Geffner - ECAI 2020, 2020 - ebooks.iospress.nl
One of the main obstacles for developing flexible AI systems is the split between data-based
learners and model-based solvers. Solvers such as classical planners are very flexible and …

Learning neural-symbolic descriptive planning models via cube-space priors: The voyage home (to STRIPS)

M Asai, C Muise - arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.12850, 2020 - arxiv.org
We achieved a new milestone in the difficult task of enabling agents to learn about their
environment autonomously. Our neuro-symbolic architecture is trained end-to-end to …