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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CP.2026.55

An Automata-Based Constraint Programming Framework for Optimal Classical Planning

Authors: Damien Van Meerbeeck, Arnaud Lequen, Gilles Pesant, and Jendrik Seipp

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 379, 32nd International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2026)

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Recent work has shown that classical planning tasks can be compactly factored into deterministic finite automata and solved optimally with constraint programming (CP). In this setting, finding a plan reduces to finding a word accepted by all automata through Regular constraints. So far, however, these automata have had to be carefully handcrafted from PDDL tasks. In this paper, we show that they can instead be generated automatically and used as the basis of CP models. We also show that the resulting framework is easily extensible with additional constraints from the planning literature that strengthen propagation. Our approach solves more tasks than the state of the art in end-to-end CP for classical planning in almost all domains.

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Damien Van Meerbeeck, Arnaud Lequen, Gilles Pesant, and Jendrik Seipp. An Automata-Based Constraint Programming Framework for Optimal Classical Planning. In 32nd International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 379, pp. 55:1-55:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)

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@InProceedings{vanmeerbeeck_et_al:LIPIcs.CP.2026.55,
  author =	{Van Meerbeeck, Damien and Lequen, Arnaud and Pesant, Gilles and Seipp, Jendrik},
  title =	{{An Automata-Based Constraint Programming Framework for Optimal Classical Planning}},
  booktitle =	{32nd International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2026)},
  pages =	{55:1--55:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-432-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{379},
  editor =	{Beldiceanu, Nicolas},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CP.2026.55},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-266889},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CP.2026.55},
  annote =	{Keywords: Optimal Classical Planning, Landmark Constraints, Automata}
}

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