Lessons Learned from the CYK Algorithm for Parsing-based Verification of Hierarchical Plans. Ondrčková, S., Barták, R., Bercher, P., & Behnke, G. In Proceedings of the 35th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 2023), 2023.
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Verification of hierarchical plans deals with the problem of whether an action sequence is causally consistent and can be obtained by a decomposition of a goal task. This second sub-problem (finding the decomposition) makes the verification problem NP-hard. The task decomposition structure is very close to a parsing tree of context-free grammar (CFG). Recently, the CFG-parsing algorithm by Cocke-Younger-Kasami (CYK) has been modified to verify hierarchical plans efficiently. Despite being fast, the algorithm can only handle totally-ordered planning domains. In this paper, we ask whether the ideas from the CYK algorithm can be extended to a more general parsing-based approach that covers all planning domains, i.e., including partially ordered ones. More specifically, we study the effect of modifying the domain model by limiting the number of sub-tasks in decomposition methods to two and the effect of changing the parsing strategy.

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