Enterprise AI Analysis
PlanGenLLMs: A Modern Survey of LLM Planning Capabilities
This survey provides a comprehensive overview of current LLM planners, building on foundational work to evaluate six key performance criteria: completeness, executability, optimality, representation, generalization, and efficiency. It analyzes representative works, highlights strengths and weaknesses, and identifies crucial future directions for leveraging LLM planning in agentic workflows.
Key Performance Indicators
Our analysis reveals the transformative potential of LLM planning across critical enterprise metrics.
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Foundations
Explores the fundamental paradigms of LLM planning, including task decomposition, search algorithms, and fine-tuning methods.
Key Findings
- Sequential, parallel, and asynchronous task decomposition techniques are used to break down complex goals into manageable sub-goals, enhancing verification and reasoning.
- Hybrid LLM-classical planner approaches combine LLM world knowledge with classical planner precision for robust plan generation.
- Search algorithms like BFS, DFS, MCTS, and A* systematically explore possibilities, offering optimality guarantees and formal verification.
Performance Criteria
Details the six key evaluation criteria for LLM planners: Completeness, Executability, Optimality, Representation, Generalization, and Efficiency.
Key Findings
- Completeness ensures valid plans are generated or unsolvable problems are recognized, often by integrating LLMs with classical sound/complete solvers.
- Executability involves object grounding, action grounding, closed-loop systems, and sample-then-filter approaches to ensure plans can be carried out in a given environment.
- Optimality seeks the best possible plan, achieved through LLM + Optimizer combinations (e.g., MILP solvers) or A* search-based methods.
- Representation focuses on effective formatting of inputs (NL to PDDL/Python) and outputs (Pythonic code) to enhance problem comprehension and execution efficiency.
- Generalization enables LLM planners to apply learned strategies to new, complex, out-of-domain scenarios, often through fine-tuning, generalized planning, or skill storage.
- Efficiency aims to reduce computational and monetary costs by decreasing LLM calls, world model interactions, input/output lengths, and model sizes.
Evaluation
Covers the methods, metrics, and datasets used to assess LLM planning capabilities.
Key Findings
- Evaluation typically uses planning-focused datasets (e.g., embodied environments, task scheduling) and downstream-task datasets (e.g., reasoning, tool usage).
- Common methods include testing in simulated environments with internal or external verifiers (e.g., VAL) and human evaluation for open-ended or ambiguous tasks.
- LLM-as-a-Judge is an increasingly adopted method for automated quality assessment, offering speed and cost-effectiveness despite limitations like position/length bias.
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Planning Success Rate
Studies show that LLMs, especially when combined with classical planners, can achieve high success rates in generating executable plans for complex tasks, such as in Alfworld environments. For instance, LLM-DP achieves 96% success.
LLM Planning Workflow
Problem Description (NL)
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Translation (to PDDL/Python)
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Plan Generation (LLM/Solver)
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Verification (External/Internal)
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Execution/Feedback
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Refinement (Iterative)
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Embodied Agent Success: VOYAGER
VOYAGER (Wang et al., 2023a) demonstrates how LLM planners, equipped with skill storage and an automatic curriculum, can achieve lifelong learning in complex environments like Minecraft. It learns and reuses skills, significantly improving discovery and task completion, outperforming state-of-the-art methods in efficiency and generalization. This highlights the potential for autonomous agents to tackle open-ended, dynamic tasks.
Outcome: Improved task completion and skill discovery in dynamic, open-ended environments.
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Your Enterprise AI Implementation Roadmap
Our phased approach ensures a smooth, effective integration of advanced LLM planning into your operations, maximizing impact while minimizing disruption.
Phase 1: Discovery & Strategy (Weeks 1-4)
Comprehensive analysis of existing workflows, identification of high-impact planning opportunities, and development of a tailored AI strategy with clear KPIs. Includes stakeholder workshops and technology assessment.
Phase 2: Pilot Program & Iteration (Months 2-4)
Deployment of a focused LLM planning pilot in a controlled environment. Rapid prototyping, testing, and iterative refinement based on performance data and user feedback. Focus on a single high-value use case.
Phase 3: Scaled Integration & Optimization (Months 5-9)
Gradual expansion of LLM planning across relevant departments. Integration with existing enterprise systems, advanced fine-tuning for specific domain knowledge, and continuous optimization for performance and cost-efficiency.
Phase 4: Autonomous Operations & Innovation (Ongoing)
Full operationalization of LLM planning capabilities. Continuous monitoring, performance-based adaptation, and exploration of new AI-driven innovation opportunities within the enterprise.
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