Stochastic Planning with First Order Decision Diagrams

Dynamic programming algorithms have been successfully applied to propositional stochastic planning problems by using compact representations, in particular algebraic decision diagrams, to capture domain dynamics and value functions. Work on symbolic dynamic programming lifted these ideas to first order logic using several representation schemes. Recent work introduced a first order variant of decision diagrams (FODD) and developed a value iteration algorithm for this representation. This paper develops several improvements to the FODD algorithm that make the approach practical. These include, new reduction operators that decrease the size of the representation, several speedup techniques, and techniques for value approximation. Incorporating these, the paper presents a planning system, FODD-PLANNER, for solving relational stochastic planning problems. The system is evaluated on several domains, including problems from the recent international planning competition, and shows competitiv...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: AIPS
• Authors: Saket Joshi, Roni Khardon
• Keywords: AIPS 2008, Artificial Intelligence, Decision Diagrams, Propositional Stochastic Planning, Stochastic Planning Problems