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

42 papers, page 1 of 1

1. ICLR 2026Benefits and Pitfalls of Reinforcement Learning for Language Model Planning: A Theoretical Perspective
2. ICLR 2026Combinatorial Rising Bandits
3. ICLR 2026Compositional Diffusion with Guided search for Long-Horizon Planning
4. ICLR 2026DR-Submodular Maximization with Stochastic Biased Gradients: Classical and Quantum Gradient Algorithms
5. ICLR 2026DreamPhase: Offline Imagination and Uncertainty-Guided Planning for Large-Language-Model Agents
6. ICLR 2026Experience-based Knowledge Correction for Robust Planning in Minecraft
7. ICLR 2026GTool: Graph Enhanced Tool Planning with Large Language Model
8. ICLR 2026Learning Dynamics Feature Representation via Policy Attention for Dynamic Path Planning in Urban Road Networks
9. ICLR 2026Model Predictive Adversarial Imitation Learning for Planning from Observation
10. ICLR 2026Natural Language PDDL (NL-PDDL) for Open-world Goal-oriented Commonsense Regression Planning in Embodied AI
11. ICLR 2026One Demo Is All It Takes: Planning Domain Derivation with LLMs from A Single Demonstration
12. ICLR 2026Plan-Answer-Refine-on-Graph: Structured Planning and Self-Refinement for Large Language Model Reasoning on Knowledge Graphs
13. ICLR 2026Planning with an Embodied Learnable Memory
14. ICLR 2026Self-Improving Loops for Visual Robotic Planning
15. ICLR 2026Simulation to Rules: A Dual-VLM Framework for Formal Visual Planning
16. ICLR 2026Strict Subgoal Execution: Reliable Long-Horizon Planning in Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
17. ICLR 2026Visual Planning: Let's Think Only with Images
18. ICLR 2025Distilling Reinforcement Learning Algorithms for In-Context Model-Based Planning
19. ICLR 2025Epistemic Monte Carlo Tree Search
20. ICLR 2025From an LLM Swarm to a PDDL-empowered Hive: Planning Self-executed Instructions in a Multi-modal Jungle
21. ICLR 2025Implicit Search via Discrete Diffusion: A Study on Chess
22. ICLR 2025Improving Large Language Model Planning with Action Sequence Similarity
23. ICLR 2025LLMs Can Plan Only If We Tell Them
24. ICLR 2025On the self-verification limitations of large language models on reasoning and planning tasks
25. ICLR 2025OptionZero: Planning with Learned Options
26. ICLR 2025System 1.x: Learning to Balance Fast and Slow Planning with Language Models
27. ICLR 2025Tool-Planner: Task Planning with Clusters across Multiple Tools
28. ICLR 2024GRAPH-CONSTRAINED DIFFUSION FOR END-TO-END PATH PLANNING
29. ICLR 2024Integrating Planning and Deep Reinforcement Learning via Automatic Induction of Task Substructures
30. ICLR 2024Learning Planning Abstractions from Language
31. ICLR 2024Maximum Entropy Model Correction in Reinforcement Learning
32. ICLR 2024PromptAgent: Strategic Planning with Language Models Enables Expert-level Prompt Optimization
33. ICLR 2024Retro-fallback: retrosynthetic planning in an uncertain world
34. ICLR 2024The Update-Equivalence Framework for Decision-Time Planning
35. ICLR 2023Fast and Precise: Adjusting Planning Horizon with Adaptive Subgoal Search
36. ICLR 2023Imitating Graph-Based Planning with Goal-Conditioned Policies
37. ICLR 2023Integrating Symmetry into Differentiable Planning with Steerable Convolutions
38. ICLR 2023Making Better Decision by Directly Planning in Continuous Control
39. ICLR 2023Mastering the Game of No-Press Diplomacy via Human-Regularized Reinforcement Learning and Planning
40. ICLR 2023Neuro-Symbolic Procedural Planning with Commonsense Prompting
41. ICLR 2023Planning Goals for Exploration
42. ICLR 2023Scaling up and Stabilizing Differentiable Planning with Implicit Differentiation

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.