Exploiting Symmetries by Planning for a Descriptive Quotient

Abstract

We eliminate symmetry from a problem before searching for a plan. The planning problem with symmetries is decomposed into a set of isomorphic subproblems. One plan is computed for a small planning problem posed by a descriptive quotient, a description of any such subproblem. A concrete plan is synthesized by concatenating instantiations of that one plan for each subproblem. Our approach is sound.

Cite

Text

Abdulaziz et al. "Exploiting Symmetries by Planning for a Descriptive Quotient." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2015.

Markdown

[Abdulaziz et al. "Exploiting Symmetries by Planning for a Descriptive Quotient." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2015.](https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/2015/abdulaziz2015ijcai-exploiting/)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{abdulaziz2015ijcai-exploiting,
  title     = {{Exploiting Symmetries by Planning for a Descriptive Quotient}},
  author    = {Abdulaziz, Mohammad and Norrish, Michael and Gretton, Charles},
  booktitle = {International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year      = {2015},
  pages     = {1479-1486},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/2015/abdulaziz2015ijcai-exploiting/}
}