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Harsha Kokel

10 accepted papers

2026

ACPBench Hard: Unrestrained Reasoning about Action, Change, and Planning

ICLR 2026poster

We introduce ACPBench Hard, a dataset of generative, open-ended questions which LLM models needs to answer in order to plan. Models that perform well on these tasks could in principle be integrated into a planner or be used directly as a policy. We discuss the complexity of these tasks as well as th…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

Position: Make Planning Research Rigorous Again!

ICML 2026poster

In over sixty years since its inception, the field of planning has made significant contributions to both the theory and practice of building planning software that can solve a never-before-seen planning problem. This was done through established practices of rigorous design and evaluation of planni…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

QueryGym: Step-by-Step Interaction with Relational Databases

AAAI 2026technical

We introduce QueryGym, an interactive environment for building, testing, and evaluating LLM-based query planning agents. Existing frameworks often tie agents to specific query language dialects or obscure their reasoning; QueryGym instead requires agents to construct explicit sequences of relational

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

ACPBench: Reasoning About Action, Change, and Planning

AAAI 2025technical

There is an increasing body of work using Large Language Models (LLMs) as agents for orchestrating workflows and making decisions in domains that require planning and multistep reasoning. As a result, it is imperative to evaluate LLMs on core skills required for planning. In this work, we present AC…

2025

Automating Thought of Search: A Journey Towards Soundness and Completeness (Student Abstract)

AAAI 2025technical

Large language models (LLMs) now turn their attention to search. Recently, Thought of Search (ToS) proposed defining the search space with code, having an LLM produce that code. ToS requires a human in the loop, collaboratively producing a sound successor function and goal test, achieving impressive…

Cited by 5SourcePDFScholar
2024

Large Language Models as Planning Domain Generators (Student Abstract)

AAAI 2024technical

The creation of planning models, and in particular domain models, is among the last bastions of tasks that require exten- sive manual labor in AI planning; it is desirable to simplify this process for the sake of making planning more accessi- ble. To this end, we investigate whether large language m…

Cited by 3SourcePDFScholar
2024

Partially Observable Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning with AI Planning (Student Abstract)

AAAI 2024technical

Partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) challenge reinforcement learning agents due to incomplete knowledge of the environment. Even assuming monotonicity in uncertainty, it is difficult for an agent to know how and when to stop exploring for a given task. In this abstract, we discus…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

Thought of Search: Planning with Language Models Through The Lens of Efficiency

NeurIPS 2024poster

Among the most important properties of algorithms investigated in computer science are soundness, completeness, and complexity. These properties, however, are rarely analyzed for the vast collection of recently proposed methods for planning with large language models. In this work, we alleviate this…

Cited by 10SourcePDFScholar
2023

Action Space Reduction for Planning Domains

IJCAI 2023poster

Planning tasks succinctly represent labeled transition systems, with each ground action corresponding to a label. This granularity, however, is not necessary for solving planning tasks and can be harmful, especially for model-free methods. In order to apply such methods, the label sets are often man…

2022

ORIENT: Submodular Mutual Information Measures for Data Subset Selection under Distribution Shift

NeurIPS 2022accept

Real-world machine-learning applications require robust models that generalize well to distribution shift settings, which is typical in real-world situations. Domain adaptation techniques aim to address this issue of distribution shift by minimizing the disparities between domains to ensure that the…

Cited by 14SourcePDFScholar