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

46 papers, page 1 of 1

1. ICML 2026An Exponential Separation Between Quantum and Quantum-Inspired Classical Algorithms for Linear Systems
2. ICML 2026Commit to the Bit: Reactive Reinforcement Learning Done Right
3. ICML 2026Compositional Planning with Jumpy World Models
4. ICML 2026Efficient Test-time Inference for Generative Planning Models with OCL Search
5. ICML 2026Laplacian Representations for Decision-Time Planning
6. ICML 2026Learning to Search and Searching to Learn for Generalization in Planning
7. ICML 2026On the Ability of Transformers to Verify Plans
8. ICML 2026Parallel Stochastic Gradient-Based Planning for World Models
9. ICML 2026PhotoAgent: Exploratory Visual Aesthetic Planning with Large Vision Models
10. ICML 2026RefineEvo: Planning-Guided Heuristic Evolution with Bidirectional Experience
11. ICML 2026Second-Order Smooth Planning with Optimal-Transport Bellman Smoothing
12. ICML 2026Temporal Straightening for Latent Planning
13. ICML 2026Training-Free Guided Diffusion for Planning: A Unified Framework via Doob’s h-Transform with Safety Guarantees
14. ICML 2025Emergent Response Planning in LLMs
15. ICML 2025Goal-Space Planning with Subgoal Models
16. ICML 2025Hybrid Quantum-Classical Multi-Agent Pathfinding
17. ICML 2025Limitations of measure-first protocols in quantum machine learning
18. ICML 2025Mastering Board Games by External and Internal Planning with Language Models
19. ICML 2025Monte-Carlo Tree Search with Uncertainty Propagation via Optimal Transport
20. ICML 2025Online Robust Reinforcement Learning Through Monte-Carlo Planning
21. ICML 2025Plan-and-Act: Improving Planning of Agents for Long-Horizon Tasks
22. ICML 2025Power Mean Estimation in Stochastic Continuous Monte-Carlo Tree Search
23. ICML 2025Quantum Speedups in Regret Analysis of Infinite Horizon Average-Reward Markov Decision Processes
24. ICML 2025Reflect-then-Plan: Offline Model-Based Planning through a Doubly Bayesian Lens
25. ICML 2025Rejecting Hallucinated State Targets during Planning
26. ICML 2025Scaling Value Iteration Networks to 5000 Layers for Extreme Long-Term Planning
27. ICML 2025TeLoGraF: Temporal Logic Planning via Graph-encoded Flow Matching
28. ICML 2025Variational Counterfactual Intervention Planning to Achieve Target Outcomes
29. ICML 2024A Bayesian Approach to Online Planning
30. ICML 2024Characterizing ResNet's Universal Approximation Capability
31. ICML 2024DNCs Require More Planning Steps
32. ICML 2024Highway Value Iteration Networks
33. ICML 2024Learning Cognitive Maps from Transformer Representations for Efficient Planning in Partially Observed Environments
34. ICML 2024Planning, Fast and Slow: Online Reinforcement Learning with Action-Free Offline Data via Multiscale Planners
35. ICML 2024Position: LLMs Can’t Plan, But Can Help Planning in LLM-Modulo Frameworks
36. ICML 2024Potential Based Diffusion Motion Planning
37. ICML 2024Provable Representation with Efficient Planning for Partially Observable Reinforcement Learning
38. ICML 2024RoboMP$^2$: A Robotic Multimodal Perception-Planning Framework with Multimodal Large Language Models
39. ICML 2024Using Left and Right Brains Together: Towards Vision and Language Planning
40. ICML 2023A Hybrid Quantum-Classical Approach based on the Hadamard Transform for the Convolutional Layer
41. ICML 2023FusionRetro: Molecule Representation Fusion via In-Context Learning for Retrosynthetic Planning
42. ICML 2023Neural Network Approximations of PDEs Beyond Linearity: A Representational Perspective
43. ICML 2023Optimistic Planning by Regularized Dynamic Programming
44. ICML 2023Provably Efficient Representation Learning with Tractable Planning in Low-Rank POMDP
45. ICML 2023Retrosynthetic Planning with Dual Value Networks
46. ICML 2023Transcendental Idealism of Planner: Evaluating Perception from Planning Perspective for Autonomous Driving

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.