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

41 papers, page 1 of 1

1. CVPR 2025Bridging Past and Future: End-to-End Autonomous Driving with Historical Prediction and Planning
2. CVPR 2025Evaluating Vision-Language Models as Evaluators in Path Planning
3. ICLR 2025Distilling Reinforcement Learning Algorithms for In-Context Model-Based Planning
4. ICLR 2025Epistemic Monte Carlo Tree Search
5. ICLR 2025From an LLM Swarm to a PDDL-empowered Hive: Planning Self-executed Instructions in a Multi-modal Jungle
6. ICLR 2025Implicit Search via Discrete Diffusion: A Study on Chess
7. ICLR 2025Improving Large Language Model Planning with Action Sequence Similarity
8. ICLR 2025LLMs Can Plan Only If We Tell Them
9. ICLR 2025On the self-verification limitations of large language models on reasoning and planning tasks
10. ICLR 2025OptionZero: Planning with Learned Options
11. ICLR 2025System 1.x: Learning to Balance Fast and Slow Planning with Language Models
12. ICLR 2025Tool-Planner: Task Planning with Clusters across Multiple Tools
13. ICML 2025Emergent Response Planning in LLMs
14. ICML 2025Goal-Space Planning with Subgoal Models
15. ICML 2025Hybrid Quantum-Classical Multi-Agent Pathfinding
16. ICML 2025Limitations of measure-first protocols in quantum machine learning
17. ICML 2025Mastering Board Games by External and Internal Planning with Language Models
18. ICML 2025Monte-Carlo Tree Search with Uncertainty Propagation via Optimal Transport
19. ICML 2025Online Robust Reinforcement Learning Through Monte-Carlo Planning
20. ICML 2025Plan-and-Act: Improving Planning of Agents for Long-Horizon Tasks
21. ICML 2025Power Mean Estimation in Stochastic Continuous Monte-Carlo Tree Search
22. ICML 2025Quantum Speedups in Regret Analysis of Infinite Horizon Average-Reward Markov Decision Processes
23. ICML 2025Reflect-then-Plan: Offline Model-Based Planning through a Doubly Bayesian Lens
24. ICML 2025Rejecting Hallucinated State Targets during Planning
25. ICML 2025Scaling Value Iteration Networks to 5000 Layers for Extreme Long-Term Planning
26. ICML 2025TeLoGraF: Temporal Logic Planning via Graph-encoded Flow Matching
27. ICML 2025Variational Counterfactual Intervention Planning to Achieve Target Outcomes
28. NeurIPS 2025\(\varepsilon\)-Optimally Solving Two-Player Zero-Sum POSGs
29. NeurIPS 2025AlphaBeta is not as good as you think: a simple random games model for a better analysis of deterministic game-solving algorithms
30. NeurIPS 2025Classical Planning with LLM-Generated Heuristics: Challenging the State of the Art with Python Code
31. NeurIPS 2025Graph Neural Network Based Action Ranking for Planning
32. NeurIPS 2025Improving planning and MBRL with temporally-extended actions
33. NeurIPS 2025On Reasoning Strength Planning in Large Reasoning Models
34. NeurIPS 2025Planning and Learning in Average Risk-aware MDPs
35. NeurIPS 2025Prior-Guided Diffusion Planning for Offline Reinforcement Learning
36. NeurIPS 2025REMI: Reconstructing Episodic Memory During Internally Driven Path Planning
37. NeurIPS 2025SPRINT: Enabling Interleaved Planning and Parallelized Execution in Reasoning Models
38. NeurIPS 2025Towards Reliable Code-as-Policies: A Neuro-Symbolic Framework for Embodied Task Planning
39. NeurIPS 2025Towards Reliable LLM-based Robots Planning via Combined Uncertainty Estimation
40. NeurIPS 2025Tru-POMDP: Task Planning Under Uncertainty via Tree of Hypotheses and Open-Ended POMDPs
41. NeurIPS 2025When Can Model-Free Reinforcement Learning be Enough for Thinking?

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.