Coding agents synthesize robot planners that generalize to unseen instances

Programs developed through simulator interaction surpassed hand-engineered planners while requiring substantially less computation at evaluation time.

Top University
Matteo Merler · Bowen Li · Josh Roy · Yichao Liang · Qianwei Wang · Yixuan Huang · +1 more

Fondazione Bruno Kessler · Carnegie Mellon University · Princeton University · University of Cambridge

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The authors gave coding agents task descriptions and simulator access, then asked them to develop reusable programs for 28 simulated task-and-motion planning environments.

6 Sol or GPT-6 Astra on 28 environments drawn from KinDER and PDDLStream.

Why this paper

From Carnegie Mellon University and 3 others · Part of World Model Planning for Agents, now 19 papers

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Coding agents synthesize programs that generalize across task and motion planning instances, outperforming hand-engineered planners.

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