Classical Planning papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Classical Planning went from 24 papers in 2023 to 79 in 2026, roughly 3.3x in three years.
• NeurIPS publishes the most Classical Planning work: 75 papers from 2023 to 2026, 42% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Multimodal LLMs: papers tagged with both rose from 0 in 2023 to 9 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Games and Planning, it ranks #4 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Mechanism Design, is up 3.0x versus 3.3x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026A Structured LLM Framework for Inorganic Material Synthesis Planning
• ICML 2026An Exponential Separation Between Quantum and Quantum-Inspired Classical Algorithms for Linear Systems
• ICLR 2026GTool: Graph Enhanced Tool Planning with Large Language Model
• CVPR 2026HQC-NBV A Hybrid Quantum-Classical View Planning Approach
• NeurIPS 2025\(\varepsilon\)-Optimally Solving Two-Player Zero-Sum POSGs
• ICML 2025Goal-Space Planning with Subgoal Models
• ICLR 2025From an LLM Swarm to a PDDL-empowered Hive: Planning Self-executed Instructions in a Multi-modal Jungle
• CVPR 2025Bridging Past and Future: End-to-End Autonomous Driving with Historical Prediction and Planning
• NeurIPS 2024WenMind: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models in Chinese Classical Literature and Language Arts
• ICML 2024A Bayesian Approach to Online Planning
• ICLR 2024Learning Planning Abstractions from Language
• CVPR 2024Why Not Use Your Textbook? Knowledge-Enhanced Procedure Planning of Instructional Videos
• NeurIPS 2023Experiment Planning with Function Approximation
• ICML 2023A Hybrid Quantum-Classical Approach based on the Hadamard Transform for the Convolutional Layer
• ICLR 2023Fast and Precise: Adjusting Planning Horizon with Adaptive Subgoal Search
• CVPR 2023Planning-Oriented Autonomous Driving
• NeurIPS 2026Behaving Better, Thinking Worse: Sycophancy Across Post-Training Stages
• ICML 2026On the Ability of Transformers to Verify Plans
• ICLR 2026Experience-based Knowledge Correction for Robust Planning in Minecraft
• CVPR 2026No Labels No Look-Ahead Unsupervised Online Video Stabilization with Classical

All Classical Planning papers

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1. CVPR 2026AGiLe Learning Robust Long-Horizon Manipulation via Affordance-Grounded Bidirectional Latent Planning
2. CVPR 2026CLaD Planning with Grounded Foresight via Cross-Modal Latent Dynamics
3. CVPR 2026D2T2 - Multimodal Automated Planning for Brachytherapy
4. CVPR 2026HQC-NBV A Hybrid Quantum-Classical View Planning Approach
5. CVPR 2026Instance-level Visual Active Tracking with Occlusion-Aware Planning
6. CVPR 2026No Labels No Look-Ahead Unsupervised Online Video Stabilization with Classical
7. CVPR 2026Planning in 8 Tokens A Compact Discrete Tokenizer for Latent
8. CVPR 2026SMAP Semantic Route Planning with Map-Grounded Multimodal Alignment
9. CVPR 2026ViterbiPlanNet Injecting Procedural Knowledge via Differentiable Viterbi for Planning in
10. ICLR 2026Benefits and Pitfalls of Reinforcement Learning for Language Model Planning: A Theoretical Perspective
11. ICLR 2026Combinatorial Rising Bandits
12. ICLR 2026Compositional Diffusion with Guided search for Long-Horizon Planning
13. ICLR 2026DR-Submodular Maximization with Stochastic Biased Gradients: Classical and Quantum Gradient Algorithms
14. ICLR 2026DreamPhase: Offline Imagination and Uncertainty-Guided Planning for Large-Language-Model Agents
15. ICLR 2026Experience-based Knowledge Correction for Robust Planning in Minecraft
16. ICLR 2026GTool: Graph Enhanced Tool Planning with Large Language Model
17. ICLR 2026Learning Dynamics Feature Representation via Policy Attention for Dynamic Path Planning in Urban Road Networks
18. ICLR 2026Model Predictive Adversarial Imitation Learning for Planning from Observation
19. ICLR 2026Natural Language PDDL (NL-PDDL) for Open-world Goal-oriented Commonsense Regression Planning in Embodied AI
20. ICLR 2026One Demo Is All It Takes: Planning Domain Derivation with LLMs from A Single Demonstration
21. ICLR 2026Plan-Answer-Refine-on-Graph: Structured Planning and Self-Refinement for Large Language Model Reasoning on Knowledge Graphs
22. ICLR 2026Planning with an Embodied Learnable Memory
23. ICLR 2026Self-Improving Loops for Visual Robotic Planning
24. ICLR 2026Simulation to Rules: A Dual-VLM Framework for Formal Visual Planning
25. ICLR 2026Strict Subgoal Execution: Reliable Long-Horizon Planning in Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
26. ICLR 2026Visual Planning: Let's Think Only with Images
27. ICML 2026An Exponential Separation Between Quantum and Quantum-Inspired Classical Algorithms for Linear Systems
28. ICML 2026Commit to the Bit: Reactive Reinforcement Learning Done Right
29. ICML 2026Compositional Planning with Jumpy World Models
30. ICML 2026Efficient Test-time Inference for Generative Planning Models with OCL Search
31. ICML 2026Laplacian Representations for Decision-Time Planning
32. ICML 2026Learning to Search and Searching to Learn for Generalization in Planning
33. ICML 2026On the Ability of Transformers to Verify Plans
34. ICML 2026Parallel Stochastic Gradient-Based Planning for World Models
35. ICML 2026PhotoAgent: Exploratory Visual Aesthetic Planning with Large Vision Models
36. ICML 2026RefineEvo: Planning-Guided Heuristic Evolution with Bidirectional Experience
37. ICML 2026Second-Order Smooth Planning with Optimal-Transport Bellman Smoothing
38. ICML 2026Temporal Straightening for Latent Planning
39. ICML 2026Training-Free Guided Diffusion for Planning: A Unified Framework via Doob’s h-Transform with Safety Guarantees
40. NeurIPS 2026A Structured LLM Framework for Inorganic Material Synthesis Planning
41. NeurIPS 2026Behaving Better, Thinking Worse: Sycophancy Across Post-Training Stages
42. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Expected Values: Risk-Sensitive Planning with Distributional Monte-Carlo Tree Search
43. NeurIPS 2026Coarse-to-Fine Compositional Diffusion for Long-Horizon Planning
44. NeurIPS 2026Complexity of Classical Acceleration for $\ell_1$-Regularized PageRank
45. NeurIPS 2026Corrupted Plans, Clean Traces: What Planning-Execution Decoupling Reveals About CoT Monitoring
46. NeurIPS 2026DAGent: Evaluate-then-Grow Planning for Deep Research Agents
47. NeurIPS 2026Differentiable Learning of Lifted Action Schemas for Classical Planning
48. NeurIPS 2026Diffusion Subgoal Planning for Long-Horizon Offline Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning
49. NeurIPS 2026Discrete Diffusion Models Exploit Asymmetry to Solve Lookahead Planning Tasks
50. NeurIPS 2026EpicWorldModel: Exploration-driven Planning with Latent World Models

FAQ

How many Classical Planning papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

179 in total: 24 in 2023, 35 in 2024, 41 in 2025, 79 in 2026.

How many Classical Planning papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 40 Classical Planning papers, versus 14 the year before.

How many Classical Planning papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 17 Classical Planning papers, versus 10 the year before.

How many Classical Planning papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 13 Classical Planning papers, versus 15 the year before.

How many Classical Planning papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 9 Classical Planning papers, versus 2 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Classical Planning papers?

NeurIPS, with 75 papers from 2023 to 2026.