Tutorial on Learning for Planning

ICAPS 2025 Tutorial, Melbourne, Australia, Date: 10-11 November, 2025

Abstract

This tutorial will cover recent advances in Learning for Planning (L4P). L4P is the subfield of AI planning which focuses on learning knowledge that generalise and help planners solve planning problems more efficiently by leveraging symbolic models and training data. The overall goal of L4P is to scale up planning technology to solve problems of greater difficulty and number of objects. Indeed due to no free lunch, one cannot expect traditional PDDL planners which plan for each problem individually to handle all domains well. L4P is a rapidly growing subfield of AI Planning which has garnered the attention of both learning researchers and planning researchers alike. For example, a semantic analysis of published ICAPS papers shows that the total number of planning papers using learning until 2024 ranks 3rd, up from 7th in 2019.

The scope of the tutorial involves covering the L4P problem setup, current approaches, and theoretical results. More specifically, the tutorial will provide a comprehensive overview the state-of-the-art for L4P which ranges from purely symbolic and inductive approaches, to deep learning architectures and also the usage of language models. The tutorial will include a hands-on lab component for participants to get familiar with L4P frameworks and architectures.

Tutorial Website

Accessible here.

Authors

Dillon Z. Chen, Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems (LAAS-CNRS), Toulouse, France

Felipe Trevizan, The Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, Australia

Sylvie Thiébaux, The Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, Australia