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Main Authors: Dold, Simon, Helmert, Malte, Nordström, Jakob, Röger, Gabriele, Schindler, Tanja
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.18443
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author Dold, Simon
Helmert, Malte
Nordström, Jakob
Röger, Gabriele
Schindler, Tanja
author_facet Dold, Simon
Helmert, Malte
Nordström, Jakob
Röger, Gabriele
Schindler, Tanja
contents We introduce lower-bound certificates for classical planning tasks, which can be used to prove the unsolvability of a task or the optimality of a plan in a way that can be verified by an independent third party. We describe a general framework for generating lower-bound certificates based on pseudo-Boolean constraints, which is agnostic to the planning algorithm used. As a case study, we show how to modify the $A^{*}$ algorithm to produce proofs of optimality with modest overhead, using pattern database heuristics and $h^\textit{max}$ as concrete examples. The same proof logging approach works for any heuristic whose inferences can be efficiently expressed as reasoning over pseudo-Boolean constraints.
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spellingShingle Pseudo-Boolean Proof Logging for Optimal Classical Planning
Dold, Simon
Helmert, Malte
Nordström, Jakob
Röger, Gabriele
Schindler, Tanja
Artificial Intelligence
We introduce lower-bound certificates for classical planning tasks, which can be used to prove the unsolvability of a task or the optimality of a plan in a way that can be verified by an independent third party. We describe a general framework for generating lower-bound certificates based on pseudo-Boolean constraints, which is agnostic to the planning algorithm used. As a case study, we show how to modify the $A^{*}$ algorithm to produce proofs of optimality with modest overhead, using pattern database heuristics and $h^\textit{max}$ as concrete examples. The same proof logging approach works for any heuristic whose inferences can be efficiently expressed as reasoning over pseudo-Boolean constraints.
title Pseudo-Boolean Proof Logging for Optimal Classical Planning
topic Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.18443