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Planning as Goal Recognition: Deriving Heuristics from Intention Models - Extended Version

Giacomo Rosa, Jean Honorio, Nir Lipovetzky, Sebastian Sardina · Mar 16, 2026 · Citations: 0

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What to verify

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Evidence quality

Low

Derived from extracted protocol signals and abstract evidence.

Abstract

Classical planning aims to find a sequence of actions, a plan, that maps a starting state into one of the goal states. If a trajectory appears to be leading to the goal, should we prioritise exploring it? Seminal work in goal recognition (GR) has defined GR in terms of a classical planning problem, adopting classical solvers and heuristics to recognise plans. We come full circle, and study the adoption and properties of GR-derived heuristics for seeking solutions to classical planning problems. We propose a new framework for assessing goal intention, which informs a new class of efficiently-computable heuristics. As a proof of concept, we derive two such heuristics, and show that they can already yield improvements for top-scoring classical planners. Our work provides foundational knowledge for understanding and deriving probabilistic intention-based heuristics for planning.

Abstract-only analysis — low confidence

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  • This paper looks adjacent to evaluation work, but not like a strong protocol reference.
  • The available metadata is too thin to trust this as a primary source.
  • The abstract does not clearly name benchmarks or metrics.

Should You Rely On This Paper?

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Best use

Background context only

Use if you need

A secondary eval reference to pair with stronger protocol papers.

Main weakness

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Trust level

Low

Usefulness score

0/100 • Low

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Human Feedback Signal

Not explicit in abstract metadata

Evaluation Signal

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Usefulness for eval research

Adjacent candidate

Extraction confidence 15%

What We Could Verify

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Human Feedback Types

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None explicit

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"Classical planning aims to find a sequence of actions, a plan, that maps a starting state into one of the goal states."

Evaluation Modes

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None explicit

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"Classical planning aims to find a sequence of actions, a plan, that maps a starting state into one of the goal states."

Quality Controls

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No explicit QC controls found.

"Classical planning aims to find a sequence of actions, a plan, that maps a starting state into one of the goal states."

Benchmarks / Datasets

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No benchmark anchors detected.

"Classical planning aims to find a sequence of actions, a plan, that maps a starting state into one of the goal states."

Reported Metrics

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No metric anchors detected.

"Classical planning aims to find a sequence of actions, a plan, that maps a starting state into one of the goal states."

Human Feedback Details

  • Uses human feedback: No
  • Feedback types: None
  • Rater population: Not reported
  • Unit of annotation: Trajectory (inferred)
  • Expertise required: Math

Evaluation Details

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  • Agentic eval: Long Horizon
  • Quality controls: Not reported
  • Evidence quality: Low
  • Use this page as: Background context only

Protocol And Measurement Signals

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No benchmark or dataset names were extracted from the available abstract.

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Research Brief

Metadata summary

Classical planning aims to find a sequence of actions, a plan, that maps a starting state into one of the goal states.

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Key Takeaways

  • Classical planning aims to find a sequence of actions, a plan, that maps a starting state into one of the goal states.
  • If a trajectory appears to be leading to the goal, should we prioritise exploring it?
  • Seminal work in goal recognition (GR) has defined GR in terms of a classical planning problem, adopting classical solvers and heuristics to recognise plans.

Researcher Actions

  • Compare this paper against nearby papers in the same arXiv category before using it for protocol decisions.
  • Check the full text for explicit evaluation design choices (raters, protocol, and metrics).
  • Use related-paper links to find stronger protocol-specific references.

Caveats

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  • Signals below are heuristic and may miss details reported outside the abstract.

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Research Summary

Contribution Summary

  • We propose a new framework for assessing goal intention, which informs a new class of efficiently-computable heuristics.

Why It Matters For Eval

  • Abstract shows limited direct human-feedback or evaluation-protocol detail; use as adjacent methodological context.

Researcher Checklist

  • Gap: Human feedback protocol is explicit

    No explicit human feedback protocol detected.

  • Gap: Evaluation mode is explicit

    No clear evaluation mode extracted.

  • Gap: Quality control reporting appears

    No calibration/adjudication/IAA control explicitly detected.

  • Gap: Benchmark or dataset anchors are present

    No benchmark/dataset anchor extracted from abstract.

  • Gap: Metric reporting is present

    No metric terms extracted.

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