Textual Planning with Explicit Latent Transitions

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Autori principali: Shlomi, Eliezer, Levy, Ido, Shapira, Eilam, Katz, Michael, Uziel, Guy, Shlomov, Segev, Mashkif, Nir, Reichart, Roi, Keren, Sarah
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author Shlomi, Eliezer
Levy, Ido
Shapira, Eilam
Katz, Michael
Uziel, Guy
Shlomov, Segev
Mashkif, Nir
Reichart, Roi
Keren, Sarah
author_facet Shlomi, Eliezer
Levy, Ido
Shapira, Eilam
Katz, Michael
Uziel, Guy
Shlomov, Segev
Mashkif, Nir
Reichart, Roi
Keren, Sarah
contents Planning with LLMs is bottlenecked by token-by-token generation and repeated full forward passes, making multi-step lookahead and rollout-based search expensive in latency and compute. We propose EmbedPlan, which replaces autoregressive next-state generation with a lightweight transition model operating in a frozen language embedding space. EmbedPlan encodes natural language state and action descriptions into vectors, predicts the next-state embedding, and retrieves the next state by nearest-neighbor similarity, enabling fast planning computation without fine-tuning the encoder. We evaluate next-state prediction across nine classical planning domains using six evaluation protocols of increasing difficulty: interpolation, plan-variant, extrapolation, multi-domain, cross-domain, and leave-one-out. Results show near-perfect interpolation performance but a sharp degradation when generalization requires transfer to unseen problems or unseen domains; plan-variant evaluation indicates generalization to alternative plans rather than memorizing seen trajectories. Overall, frozen embeddings support within-domain dynamics learning after observing a domain's transitions, while transfer across domain boundaries remains a bottleneck.
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spellingShingle Textual Planning with Explicit Latent Transitions
Shlomi, Eliezer
Levy, Ido
Shapira, Eilam
Katz, Michael
Uziel, Guy
Shlomov, Segev
Mashkif, Nir
Reichart, Roi
Keren, Sarah
Computation and Language
Planning with LLMs is bottlenecked by token-by-token generation and repeated full forward passes, making multi-step lookahead and rollout-based search expensive in latency and compute. We propose EmbedPlan, which replaces autoregressive next-state generation with a lightweight transition model operating in a frozen language embedding space. EmbedPlan encodes natural language state and action descriptions into vectors, predicts the next-state embedding, and retrieves the next state by nearest-neighbor similarity, enabling fast planning computation without fine-tuning the encoder. We evaluate next-state prediction across nine classical planning domains using six evaluation protocols of increasing difficulty: interpolation, plan-variant, extrapolation, multi-domain, cross-domain, and leave-one-out. Results show near-perfect interpolation performance but a sharp degradation when generalization requires transfer to unseen problems or unseen domains; plan-variant evaluation indicates generalization to alternative plans rather than memorizing seen trajectories. Overall, frozen embeddings support within-domain dynamics learning after observing a domain's transitions, while transfer across domain boundaries remains a bottleneck.
title Textual Planning with Explicit Latent Transitions
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.04557