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

179 papers, page 2 of 4

51. NeurIPS 2026Flexible Intensities Matter: A comprehensive re-evaluation of Classical and Neural Temporal Point Processes
52. NeurIPS 2026HaM-World: Soft-Hamiltonian World Models with Selective Memory for Planning
53. NeurIPS 2026Implicit-Euler Value Iteration: Long-Horizon Planning via Stable Integration of the Bellman Residual Flow
54. NeurIPS 2026Locating and Repairing Domain Shift in VLM Trajectory Planning
55. NeurIPS 2026Majority-of-Three is an Optimal PAC Learner
56. NeurIPS 2026Marginal-Nonuniform Multiclass Learning
57. NeurIPS 2026MemPlan: Memory-Conditioned PDDL Planning for Partially Observable Text Environments
58. NeurIPS 2026Multi-Stage Planning from Single-Stage Data: Reinforcement Learning Helps Composition but Requires Anchoring
59. NeurIPS 2026Nearly Optimal Fixed-Confidence Best-Arm Identification with 1-Bit Feedback
60. NeurIPS 2026ObjView-Bench: Rethinking Difficulty and Deployment for Object-Centric View Planning
61. NeurIPS 2026OntoPlan: An Ontology-Grounded Scene Representation and Agentic Framework for Scalable Robot Task Planning
62. NeurIPS 2026Optimizer-Induced Mode Connectivity: From AdamW to Muon
63. NeurIPS 2026Ordinal Geometry Complements Reconstruction: Diagnosing Planning with Compressed Value Functions
64. NeurIPS 2026Perfect Parallelization in Mini-Batch SGD with Classical Momentum Acceleration
65. NeurIPS 2026Plan2Sense: Open-World Task Planning in Epistemic States via Interleaved Ontic and Sensing Actions
66. NeurIPS 2026PO-PDDL: Learning Symbolic POMDPs from Visual Demonstrations for Robot Planning Under Uncertainty
67. NeurIPS 2026Posterior-Tracking for Best-Arm Identification in Bernoulli Bandits
68. NeurIPS 2026Probing Visual Planning in Image Editing Models
69. NeurIPS 2026Property-Guided LLM Program Synthesis for Planning
70. NeurIPS 2026Recovering the Apresjan Hierarchy Using Linkage-Based Clustering
71. NeurIPS 2026Refining Compositional Diffusion for Reliable Long-Horizon Planning
72. NeurIPS 2026Risk-Averse Online POMDP Planning via CVaR of the Immediate Cost with Performance Guarantees
73. NeurIPS 2026Settling the Sample Complexity of Deterministic Agnostic PAC Learning
74. NeurIPS 2026TGPO: Trace-Guided Policy Optimization for Robot Task Planning via Verifiable Subgoal Generation
75. NeurIPS 2026Theory of Mind and Persuasion Beyond Conversation: Assessing the Capacity of LLMs to Induce Belief States via Planning and Action
76. NeurIPS 2026Tokenizer Choice Shapes Generalization in State-Centric Learning for Planning
77. NeurIPS 2026Trajectory Planning without Trajectory Data: A Manifold-Guided Approach
78. NeurIPS 2026Unifying Reasoning and Planning through Energy Minimization
79. NeurIPS 2026Winning Lottery Tickets in Neural Networks via a Quantum-Inspired Classical Algorithm
80. CVPR 2025Bridging Past and Future: End-to-End Autonomous Driving with Historical Prediction and Planning
81. CVPR 2025Evaluating Vision-Language Models as Evaluators in Path Planning
82. ICLR 2025Distilling Reinforcement Learning Algorithms for In-Context Model-Based Planning
83. ICLR 2025Epistemic Monte Carlo Tree Search
84. ICLR 2025From an LLM Swarm to a PDDL-empowered Hive: Planning Self-executed Instructions in a Multi-modal Jungle
85. ICLR 2025Implicit Search via Discrete Diffusion: A Study on Chess
86. ICLR 2025Improving Large Language Model Planning with Action Sequence Similarity
87. ICLR 2025LLMs Can Plan Only If We Tell Them
88. ICLR 2025On the self-verification limitations of large language models on reasoning and planning tasks
89. ICLR 2025OptionZero: Planning with Learned Options
90. ICLR 2025System 1.x: Learning to Balance Fast and Slow Planning with Language Models
91. ICLR 2025Tool-Planner: Task Planning with Clusters across Multiple Tools
92. ICML 2025Emergent Response Planning in LLMs
93. ICML 2025Goal-Space Planning with Subgoal Models
94. ICML 2025Hybrid Quantum-Classical Multi-Agent Pathfinding
95. ICML 2025Limitations of measure-first protocols in quantum machine learning
96. ICML 2025Mastering Board Games by External and Internal Planning with Language Models
97. ICML 2025Monte-Carlo Tree Search with Uncertainty Propagation via Optimal Transport
98. ICML 2025Online Robust Reinforcement Learning Through Monte-Carlo Planning
99. ICML 2025Plan-and-Act: Improving Planning of Agents for Long-Horizon Tasks
100. ICML 2025Power Mean Estimation in Stochastic Continuous Monte-Carlo Tree Search

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.