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

75 papers, page 1 of 2

1. NeurIPS 2026A Structured LLM Framework for Inorganic Material Synthesis Planning
2. NeurIPS 2026Behaving Better, Thinking Worse: Sycophancy Across Post-Training Stages
3. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Expected Values: Risk-Sensitive Planning with Distributional Monte-Carlo Tree Search
4. NeurIPS 2026Coarse-to-Fine Compositional Diffusion for Long-Horizon Planning
5. NeurIPS 2026Complexity of Classical Acceleration for $\ell_1$-Regularized PageRank
6. NeurIPS 2026Corrupted Plans, Clean Traces: What Planning-Execution Decoupling Reveals About CoT Monitoring
7. NeurIPS 2026DAGent: Evaluate-then-Grow Planning for Deep Research Agents
8. NeurIPS 2026Differentiable Learning of Lifted Action Schemas for Classical Planning
9. NeurIPS 2026Diffusion Subgoal Planning for Long-Horizon Offline Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning
10. NeurIPS 2026Discrete Diffusion Models Exploit Asymmetry to Solve Lookahead Planning Tasks
11. NeurIPS 2026EpicWorldModel: Exploration-driven Planning with Latent World Models
12. NeurIPS 2026Flexible Intensities Matter: A comprehensive re-evaluation of Classical and Neural Temporal Point Processes
13. NeurIPS 2026HaM-World: Soft-Hamiltonian World Models with Selective Memory for Planning
14. NeurIPS 2026Implicit-Euler Value Iteration: Long-Horizon Planning via Stable Integration of the Bellman Residual Flow
15. NeurIPS 2026Locating and Repairing Domain Shift in VLM Trajectory Planning
16. NeurIPS 2026Majority-of-Three is an Optimal PAC Learner
17. NeurIPS 2026Marginal-Nonuniform Multiclass Learning
18. NeurIPS 2026MemPlan: Memory-Conditioned PDDL Planning for Partially Observable Text Environments
19. NeurIPS 2026Multi-Stage Planning from Single-Stage Data: Reinforcement Learning Helps Composition but Requires Anchoring
20. NeurIPS 2026Nearly Optimal Fixed-Confidence Best-Arm Identification with 1-Bit Feedback
21. NeurIPS 2026ObjView-Bench: Rethinking Difficulty and Deployment for Object-Centric View Planning
22. NeurIPS 2026OntoPlan: An Ontology-Grounded Scene Representation and Agentic Framework for Scalable Robot Task Planning
23. NeurIPS 2026Optimizer-Induced Mode Connectivity: From AdamW to Muon
24. NeurIPS 2026Ordinal Geometry Complements Reconstruction: Diagnosing Planning with Compressed Value Functions
25. NeurIPS 2026Perfect Parallelization in Mini-Batch SGD with Classical Momentum Acceleration
26. NeurIPS 2026Plan2Sense: Open-World Task Planning in Epistemic States via Interleaved Ontic and Sensing Actions
27. NeurIPS 2026PO-PDDL: Learning Symbolic POMDPs from Visual Demonstrations for Robot Planning Under Uncertainty
28. NeurIPS 2026Posterior-Tracking for Best-Arm Identification in Bernoulli Bandits
29. NeurIPS 2026Probing Visual Planning in Image Editing Models
30. NeurIPS 2026Property-Guided LLM Program Synthesis for Planning
31. NeurIPS 2026Recovering the Apresjan Hierarchy Using Linkage-Based Clustering
32. NeurIPS 2026Refining Compositional Diffusion for Reliable Long-Horizon Planning
33. NeurIPS 2026Risk-Averse Online POMDP Planning via CVaR of the Immediate Cost with Performance Guarantees
34. NeurIPS 2026Settling the Sample Complexity of Deterministic Agnostic PAC Learning
35. NeurIPS 2026TGPO: Trace-Guided Policy Optimization for Robot Task Planning via Verifiable Subgoal Generation
36. NeurIPS 2026Theory of Mind and Persuasion Beyond Conversation: Assessing the Capacity of LLMs to Induce Belief States via Planning and Action
37. NeurIPS 2026Tokenizer Choice Shapes Generalization in State-Centric Learning for Planning
38. NeurIPS 2026Trajectory Planning without Trajectory Data: A Manifold-Guided Approach
39. NeurIPS 2026Unifying Reasoning and Planning through Energy Minimization
40. NeurIPS 2026Winning Lottery Tickets in Neural Networks via a Quantum-Inspired Classical Algorithm
41. NeurIPS 2025\(\varepsilon\)-Optimally Solving Two-Player Zero-Sum POSGs
42. NeurIPS 2025AlphaBeta is not as good as you think: a simple random games model for a better analysis of deterministic game-solving algorithms
43. NeurIPS 2025Classical Planning with LLM-Generated Heuristics: Challenging the State of the Art with Python Code
44. NeurIPS 2025Graph Neural Network Based Action Ranking for Planning
45. NeurIPS 2025Improving planning and MBRL with temporally-extended actions
46. NeurIPS 2025On Reasoning Strength Planning in Large Reasoning Models
47. NeurIPS 2025Planning and Learning in Average Risk-aware MDPs
48. NeurIPS 2025Prior-Guided Diffusion Planning for Offline Reinforcement Learning
49. NeurIPS 2025REMI: Reconstructing Episodic Memory During Internally Driven Path Planning
50. NeurIPS 2025SPRINT: Enabling Interleaved Planning and Parallelized Execution in Reasoning 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.