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most citedThought of Search: Planning with Language Models Through The Lens of Efficiency

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17 papers

cs.AI2026

Model Space Reasoning as Search in Feedback Space for Planning Domain Generation

James Oswald, Daniel Obolensky, Volodymyr Varha +5

The generation of planning domains from natural language descriptions remains an open problem even with the advent of large language models and reasoning models. Recent work sugges…

cs.DB2025

Evaluating Joinable Column Discovery Approaches for Context-Aware Search

Harsha Kokel, Aamod Khatiwada, Tejaswini Pedapati +4

Joinable Column Discovery is a critical challenge in automating enterprise data analysis. While existing approaches focus on syntactic overlap and semantic similarity, there remain…

cs.DB2025

QueryGym: Step-by-Step Interaction with Relational Databases

Haritha Ananthakrishnan, Harsha Kokel, Kelsey Sikes +4

We introduce QueryGym, an interactive environment for building, testing, and evaluating LLM-based query planning agents. Existing frameworks often tie agents to specific query lang…

cs.AI2025

Seemingly Simple Planning Problems are Computationally Challenging: The Countdown Game

Michael Katz, Harsha Kokel, Sarath Sreedharan

There is a broad consensus that the inability to form long-term plans is one of the key limitations of current foundational models and agents. However, the existing planning benchm…

cs.DB2025

TOPJoin: A Context-Aware Multi-Criteria Approach for Joinable Column Search

Harsha Kokel, Aamod Khatiwada, Tejaswini Pedapati +4

One of the major challenges in enterprise data analysis is the task of finding joinable tables that are conceptually related and provide meaningful insights. Traditionally, joinabl…

cs.AI2025

Make Planning Research Rigorous Again!

Michael Katz, Harsha Kokel, Christian Muise +2

In over sixty years since its inception, the field of planning has made significant contributions to both the theory and practice of building planning software that can solve a nev…

cs.AI2025

ACPBench Hard: Unrestrained Reasoning about Action, Change, and Planning

Harsha Kokel, Michael Katz, Kavitha Srinivas +1

The ACPBench dataset provides atomic reasoning tasks required for efficient planning. The dataset is aimed at distilling the complex plan generation task into separate atomic reaso…

cs.MA2025

Combining Planning and Reinforcement Learning for Solving Relational Multiagent Domains

Nikhilesh Prabhakar, Ranveer Singh, Harsha Kokel +2

Multiagent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) poses significant challenges due to the exponential growth of state and action spaces and the non-stationary nature of multiagent environme…

cs.CL2025

Can Cross Encoders Produce Useful Sentence Embeddings?

Haritha Ananthakrishnan, Julian Dolby, Harsha Kokel +2

Cross encoders (CEs) are trained with sentence pairs to detect relatedness. As CEs require sentence pairs at inference, the prevailing view is that they can only be used as re-rank…

cs.AI2024★ 1 cited

ACPBench: Reasoning about Action, Change, and Planning

Harsha Kokel, Michael Katz, Kavitha Srinivas +1

There is an increasing body of work using Large Language Models (LLMs) as agents for orchestrating workflows and making decisions in domains that require planning and multi-step re…

cs.AI2024

Automating Thought of Search: A Journey Towards Soundness and Completeness

Daniel Cao, Michael Katz, Harsha Kokel +2

Large language models (LLMs) are being used to solve planning problems that require search. Most of the literature uses LLMs as world models to define the search space, forgoing so…

cs.LG2024

TabSketchFM: Sketch-based Tabular Representation Learning for Data Discovery over Data Lakes

Aamod Khatiwada, Harsha Kokel, Ibrahim Abdelaziz +7

Enterprises have a growing need to identify relevant tables in data lakes; e.g. tables that are unionable, joinable, or subsets of each other. Tabular neural models can be helpful…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Large Language Models as Planning Domain Generators

James Oswald, Kavitha Srinivas, Harsha Kokel +3

Developing domain models is one of the few remaining places that require manual human labor in AI planning. Thus, in order to make planning more accessible, it is desirable to auto…

cs.AI2024★ 4 cited

Thought of Search: Planning with Language Models Through The Lens of Efficiency

Michael Katz, Harsha Kokel, Kavitha Srinivas +1

Among the most important properties of algorithms investigated in computer science are soundness, completeness, and complexity. These properties, however, are rarely analyzed for t…

cs.DB2023★ 2 cited

LakeBench: Benchmarks for Data Discovery over Data Lakes

Kavitha Srinivas, Julian Dolby, Ibrahim Abdelaziz +6

Within enterprises, there is a growing need to intelligently navigate data lakes, specifically focusing on data discovery. Of particular importance to enterprises is the ability to…

cs.HC2022

Human-guided Collaborative Problem Solving: A Natural Language based Framework

Harsha Kokel, Mayukh Das, Rakibul Islam +10

We consider the problem of human-machine collaborative problem solving as a planning task coupled with natural language communication. Our framework consists of three components --…

cs.AI2021

Dynamic probabilistic logic models for effective abstractions in RL

Harsha Kokel, Arjun Manoharan, Sriraam Natarajan +2

State abstraction enables sample-efficient learning and better task transfer in complex reinforcement learning environments. Recently, we proposed RePReL (Kokel et al. 2021), a hie…