LM4Plan @ ICAPS 2025

Overview

Large Language Models (LLMs) are a disruptive force, changing how research was done in many sub-areas of AI. Planning is one of the last bastions that remain standing. The focus of this workshop is on the questions in the intersection of these areas. Some of the specific areas we would like to gain a better understanding in include: what LLMs can contribute to planning, how LLMs can/should be used, what are the pitfalls of using LLMs, what are the guarantees that can be obtained.

Accepted papers

  • From Next Token Prediction to (STRIPS) World Models – Preliminary Results (oral)
  • Seemingly Simple Planning Problems are Computationally Challenging: The Countdown Game (oral)
  • PDDL-Instruct: Enhancing Symbolic Planning Capabilities in LLMs through Logical Chain-of-Thought Instruction Tuning (oral)
  • Language Models For Generalised PDDL Planning: Synthesising Sound and Programmatic Policies (oral)
  • Automated Repair of Totally-Ordered Hierarchical Task Network Domains via Context-Free Grammars with Large Language Model Support (oral)
  • A Collaborative Numeric Task Planning Framework based on Constraint Translations using LLMs (oral)
  • A Requirements Engineering-Driven Methodology for Planning Domain Generation via LLMs with Invariant-Based Refinement (oral)
  • Enhancing GPT-based Planning Policies by Plan Validation (poster)
  • Towards a General Framework for HTN Modeling with LLMs (poster)
  • Improved Generalized Planning with LLMs through Strategy Refinement and Reflection (poster)
  • Which LLM is Best for Translating Natural Language Goals to PDDL (poster)
  • Game of Thought: Robust Information Seeking with Large Language Models Using Game Theory (poster)
  • Planner-Independent Extraction of Goals and Constraints from Natural Language for Open-World Mobile Robot Missions (poster)

Presentation instructions

All authors must present their papers. The oral presentations are 20 minutes + 5 minutes for questions. The poster presentations get a 2-minute spotlight presentation and must present a poster at the poster session.

The conference organizers will provide us with panels of size 1.8m (H) x 1.2m (W) (from the floor) to put the posters on. There are no size limitations beyond being able to fit on the panel.

Schedule

Start time End time Agenda Item Title
8:30 8:40 Opening remarks Opening remarks
8:40 9:20 Invited talk Nir Lipovetzky: Towards Model-Based Reasoning in Large Language Models: A Planning Perspective
9:20 9:45 paper talk From Next Token Prediction to (STRIPS) World Models – Preliminary Results
9:45 10:00 Spotlight presentations Enhancing GPT-based Planning Policies by Plan Validation
      Towards a General Framework for HTN Modeling with LLMs
      Improved Generalized Planning with LLMs through Strategy Refinement and Reflection
      Which LLM is Best for Translating Natural Language Goals to PDDL
      Game of Thought: Robust Information Seeking with Large Language Models Using Game Theory
      Planner-Independent Extraction of Goals and Constraints from Natural Language for Open-World Mobile Robot Missions
10:00 10:30 Coffee  
10:30 10:55 paper talk Seemingly Simple Planning Problems are Computationally Challenging: The Countdown Game
10:55 11:20 paper talk PDDL-Instruct: Enhancing Symbolic Planning Capabilities in LLMs through Logical Chain-of-Thought Instruction Tuning
11:20 11:45 paper talk Language Models For Generalised PDDL Planning: Synthesising Sound and Programmatic Policies
11:45 12:00 Set up posters  
12:00 13:30 Lunch  
13:30 15:00 Posters session  
15:00 15:30 Coffee  
15:30 15:55 paper talk Automated Repair of Totally-Ordered Hierarchical Task Network Domains via Context-Free Grammars with Large Language Model Support
15:55 16:20 paper talk A Collaborative Numeric Task Planning Framework based on Constraint Translations using LLMs
16:20 16:45 paper talk A Requirements Engineering-Driven Methodology for Planning Domain Generation via LLMs with Invariant-Based Refinement
16:45 17:00 Concluding remarks  

Topics of Interest

We invite paper submissions on the following (not exhaustive) list of topics:

  • Algorithms and theories of planning with pre-trained or fine-tuned LLMs.
  • LLMs for (partial) model elicitation.
  • LLMs for search guidance or search pruning.
  • LLMs for planning modulo theories.
  • LLMs as proxies for user preferences.
  • Validation/verification of plans, policies, or models.
  • Generalization in planning and generalized planning with LLMs.
  • Using LLMs to develop interfaces for planning-related problems.
  • Other applications of LLMs in planning.
  • Other applications of large vision-language models (VLMs) in planning.
  • Planning for LLMs and VLMs.

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: August 5th, 2025, AoE (extended)
Paper acceptance notification: September 8th, 2025, AoE

ICAPS will be in-person this year. Authors of accepted workshop papers are expected to register for the workshop, physically attend the conference and present in person.

Submission Details

We solicit workshop paper submissions relevant to the above call of the following types:

Long papers – up to 8 pages + unlimited references / appendices
Short papers – up to 4 pages + unlimited references / appendices

Please format submissions in AAAI style (see instructions in the Author Kit ). Authors submitting papers rejected from other conferences, please ensure you do your utmost to address the comments given by the reviewers. Please do not submit papers that are already accepted for the main ICAPS conference to the workshop.

Paper submissions should be made through OpenReview.

Organizing Committee
Pascal Bercher, Australian National University
Augusto B. Corrêa, University of Oxford
Morgan Fine-Morris, Naval Research Laboratory
Michael Katz, IBM Research
Sarath Sreedharan, Colorado State University

Please send your inquiries to llmforplanning@gmail.com