Novelty Adaptation Through Hybrid Large Language Model (LLM)-Symbolic Planning and LLM-guided Reinforcement Learning

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Main Authors: Lu, Hong, Lorang, Pierrick, Duggan, Timothy R., Sinapov, Jivko, Scheutz, Matthias
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author Lu, Hong
Lorang, Pierrick
Duggan, Timothy R.
Sinapov, Jivko
Scheutz, Matthias
author_facet Lu, Hong
Lorang, Pierrick
Duggan, Timothy R.
Sinapov, Jivko
Scheutz, Matthias
contents In dynamic open-world environments, autonomous agents often encounter novelties that hinder their ability to find plans to achieve their goals. Specifically, traditional symbolic planners fail to generate plans when the robot's planning domain lacks the operators that enable it to interact appropriately with novel objects in the environment. We propose a neuro-symbolic architecture that integrates symbolic planning, reinforcement learning, and a large language model (LLM) to learn how to handle novel objects. In particular, we leverage the common sense reasoning capability of the LLM to identify missing operators, generate plans with the symbolic AI planner, and write reward functions to guide the reinforcement learning agent in learning control policies for newly identified operators. Our method outperforms the state-of-the-art methods in operator discovery as well as operator learning in continuous robotic domains.
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spellingShingle Novelty Adaptation Through Hybrid Large Language Model (LLM)-Symbolic Planning and LLM-guided Reinforcement Learning
Lu, Hong
Lorang, Pierrick
Duggan, Timothy R.
Sinapov, Jivko
Scheutz, Matthias
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
In dynamic open-world environments, autonomous agents often encounter novelties that hinder their ability to find plans to achieve their goals. Specifically, traditional symbolic planners fail to generate plans when the robot's planning domain lacks the operators that enable it to interact appropriately with novel objects in the environment. We propose a neuro-symbolic architecture that integrates symbolic planning, reinforcement learning, and a large language model (LLM) to learn how to handle novel objects. In particular, we leverage the common sense reasoning capability of the LLM to identify missing operators, generate plans with the symbolic AI planner, and write reward functions to guide the reinforcement learning agent in learning control policies for newly identified operators. Our method outperforms the state-of-the-art methods in operator discovery as well as operator learning in continuous robotic domains.
title Novelty Adaptation Through Hybrid Large Language Model (LLM)-Symbolic Planning and LLM-guided Reinforcement Learning
topic Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.11351