Another exciting achievement for the MuLab to report on: earlier this week it was announced at the 2nd Workshop on Combinatorial Reconfiguration that the PARIS team, which included MuLab members @cjmuise and @alice_petrov_ , won several tracks in the inaugural Core Challenge.
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...and "plan" is the key term here. We explored the best the @ICAPSConference field has to offer and solved the problems using a combination of SoA planners. We topped the leaderboard in several tracks, and it's a testament to how powerful modern planning systems have become.
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It was an awesome team effort -- with researchers from the University of Basel, IBM T.J. Watson Research, Invitae, Queen’s University, Linkoping University, and University of Freiburg -- and you can read all about it at the contest page: core-challenge.github.io/202…
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Happy to report that planutils snagged 2nd place at the demo track for this year's #ICAPS2022!! Congrats to all the winners, and we'll see you at next year's ICAPS.
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First up is Planutils -- a library and package manager that brings the best the planning field has to offer right to your (docker enabled) fingertips! Want to run any commonly used planner with minimal overhead? This is the place to go.
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Congrats @san_a_far, and welcome to @PfaffCatherine's Queen's University Soccer Lab and the @QuMuLab ! We're lucky to have you, and can't wait to see the awesome research you start to explore!!
I am honored to be a recipient of the @VectorInst Scholarship in Artificial Intelligence 2022-23 at @queensu
The 2024 @ICAPSConference was announced today to be in Banff, BC, Canada. Artwork already found on the lab whiteboard...
MuLab will be there to represent!
MuLab retweeted
We recently open-sourced MACQ, a toolkit meant to be your one-stop shop for learning #AI models for sequential decision-making, from observed agent data. Join us at #ICAPS2022 today for a live demo 🤓 with @cjmuise @QuMuLab
Link 👉 macq.planning.domains
Attending #ICAPS2022? Come check out 3 powerhouse demos from the MuLab & friends!!
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(next session @ 18UTC in just a few min!)
Finally, we have Planning Tech for Planning Pedagogy -- a nifty little method to mark planning assignments /with a planner/. Very effective at detecting bugs in planning models.
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Very happy to share the news that recent @QueensComputing graduate, Xiaotian Liu, co-advised by @hectorpal (ServiceNow) & @cjmuise (Queen's) has won the #CVPR2022 #EAI22 embodied agent ALFRED challenge: askforalfred.com/EAI22/
The work is a shining example of what is possible with an appropriately designed neuro-symbolic architecture. Perception and planning are used precisely where it makes sense, and to great effect. A very well-timed "win" for the use of planning techniques with #ICAPS2022 ongoing.
The final work to share for a bit (need to get back to writing things up) is an undergraduate thesis by Alexander Beamish on extracting temporal planning theories from natural language.
Step 4 dynamically builds a prompt using these "similar" examples and fetches the response from an LLM for the specific query. With some quick post-processing to make sure the generated code is syntactically correct, we're all set!
