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Ali Pesaranghader

9 accepted papers

2026

Natural Language PDDL (NL-PDDL) for Open-world Goal-oriented Commonsense Regression Planning in Embodied AI

ICLR 2026poster

Planning in open-world environments, where agents must act with partially observed states and incomplete knowledge, is a central challenge in embodied AI. Open-world planning involves not only sequencing actions but also determining what information the agent needs to sense to enable those actions.…

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2025

ActiveVOO: Value of Observation Guided Active Knowledge Acquisition for Open-World Embodied Lifted Regression Planning

NeurIPS 2025poster

The ability to actively acquire information is essential for open-world planning under partial observability and incomplete knowledge. However, most existing embodied AI systems either assume a known object category or rely on passive perception strategies that exhaustively gather object and relatio…

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2025

LLM-based Typed Hyperresolution for Commonsense Reasoning with Knowledge Bases

ICLR 2025poster

Large language models (LLM) are being increasingly applied to tasks requiring commonsense reasoning. Despite their outstanding potential, the reasoning process of LLMs is prone to errors and hallucinations that hinder their applicability, especially in high-stakes scenarios. Several works have attem…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Open-World Planning via Lifted Regression with LLM-Inferred Affordances for Embodied Agents

ACL 2025long

Open-world planning with incomplete knowledge is crucial for real-world embodied AI tasks. Despite that, existing LLM-based planners struggle with long chains of sequential reasoning, while symbolic planners face combinatorial explosion of states and actions for complex domains due to reliance on gr…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

Athena: Safe Autonomous Agents with Verbal Contrastive Learning

EMNLP 2024industry

Due to emergent capabilities, large language models (LLMs) have been utilized as language-based agents to perform a variety of tasks and make decisions with an increasing degree of autonomy. These autonomous agents can understand high-level instructions, interact with their environments, and execute…

2024

Gaussian Process Optimization for Adaptable Multi-Objective Text Generation using Linearly-Weighted Language Models

NAACL 2024findings

In multi-objective text generation, we aim to optimize over multiple weighted aspects (e.g., toxicity, semantic preservation, fluency) of the generated text. However, multi-objective weighting schemes may change dynamically in practice according to deployment requirements, evolving business needs, p…

2024

Verifiable, Debuggable, and Repairable Commonsense Logical Reasoning via LLM-based Theory Resolution

EMNLP 2024main

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLM) have led to substantial interest in their application to commonsense reasoning tasks. Despite their potential, LLMs are susceptible to reasoning errors and hallucinations that may be harmful in use cases where accurate reasoning is critical. This challe…

2023

COUNT: COntrastive UNlikelihood Text Style Transfer for Text Detoxification

EMNLP 2023short findings

Offensive and toxic text on social media platforms can lead to polarization and divisiveness within online communities and hinders constructive dialogue. Text detoxification is a crucial task in natural language processing to ensure the generation of non-toxic and safe text. Text detoxification is a…

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2023

DiffuDetox: A Mixed Diffusion Model for Text Detoxification

ACL 2023findings

Text detoxification is a conditional text generation task aiming to remove offensive content from toxic text. It is highly useful for online forums and social media, where offensive content is frequently encountered. Intuitively, there are diverse ways to detoxify sentences while preserving their me…