Tom Silver

64 papers A* 15A 3B 1Misc 3Journal 39Unranked 3
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 A* conf
A Human-in-the-Loop Confidence-Aware Failure Recovery Framework for Modular Robot Policies.
HRI
Rohan Banerjee, Krishna Palempalli, Bohan Yang, Jiaying Fang, Alif Abdullah, Tom Silver, Sarah Dean, Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee
2026 J jnl
A Human-in-the-Loop Confidence-Aware Failure Recovery Framework for Modular Robot Policies.
CoRR
Rohan Banerjee, Krishna Palempalli, Bohan Yang, Jiaying Fang, Alif Abdullah, Tom Silver, Sarah Dean, Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee
2026 J jnl
Anticipatory Task and Motion Planning: Improved Rearrangement in Persistent Continuous-Space Environments.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.
Roshan Dhakal, Duc M. Nguyen, Tom Silver, Xuesu Xiao, Gregory J. Stein
2026 J jnl
From Pixels to Predicates: Learning Symbolic World Models via Pretrained VLMs.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.
Ashay Athalye, Nishanth Kumar, Tom Silver, Yichao Liang, Jiuguang Wang, Tomás Lozano-Pérez, Leslie Pack Kaelbling
2025 J jnl
Bilevel Learning for Bilevel Planning.
CoRR
Bowen Li, Tom Silver, Sebastian A. Scherer, Alexander G. Gray
2025 A* conf
CART-MPC: Coordinating Assistive Devices for Robot-Assisted Transferring with Multi-Agent Model Predictive Control.
HRI
Ruolin Ye, Shuaixing Chen, Yunting Yan, Joyce Yang, Christina Ge, Jose A. Barreiros, Kate Tsui, Tom Silver, Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee
2025 J jnl
CART-MPC: Coordinating Assistive Devices for Robot-Assisted Transferring with Multi-Agent Model Predictive Control.
CoRR
Ruolin Ye, Shuaixing Chen, Yunting Yan, Joyce Yang, Christina Ge, Jose A. Barreiros, Kate Tsui, Tom Silver, Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee
2025 J jnl
CLAMP: Crowdsourcing a LArge-scale in-the-wild haptic dataset with an open-source device for Multimodal robot Perception.
CoRR
Pranav N. Thakkar, Shubhangi Sinha, Karan Baijal, Yuhan Bian, Leah Lackey, Ben Dodson, Heisen Kong, Jueun Kwon, Amber Li, Yifei Hu, Alexios Rekoutis, Tom Silver, Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee
2025 J jnl
Coloring Between the Lines: Personalization in the Null Space of Planning Constraints.
CoRR
Tom Silver, Rajat Kumar Jenamani, Ziang Liu, Ben Dodson, Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee
2025 J jnl
ExoPredicator: Learning Abstract Models of Dynamic Worlds for Robot Planning.
CoRR
Yichao Liang, Dat Nguyen, Cambridge Yang, Tianyang Li, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Carl Edward Rasmussen, Adrian Weller, Zenna Tavares, Tom Silver, Kevin Ellis
2025 J jnl
FEAST: A Flexible Mealtime-Assistance System Towards In-the-Wild Personalization.
CoRR
Rajat Kumar Jenamani, Tom Silver, Ben Dodson, Shiqin Tong, Anthony Song, Yuting Yang, Ziang Liu, Benjamin Howe, Aimee Whitneck, Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee
2025 A* conf
GRACE: Generalizing Robot-Assisted Caregiving with User Functionality Embeddings.
HRI
Ziang Liu, Yuanchen Ju, Yu Da, Tom Silver, Pranav N. Thakkar, Jenna Li, Justin Guo, Katherine Dimitropoulou, Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee
2025 J jnl
GRACE: Generalizing Robot-Assisted Caregiving with User Functionality Embeddings.
CoRR
Ziang Liu, Yuanchen Ju, Yu Da, Tom Silver, Pranav N. Thakkar, Jenna Li, Justin Guo, Katherine Dimitropoulou, Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee
2025 J jnl
Predicate Invention from Pixels via Pretrained Vision-Language Models.
CoRR
Ashay Athalye, Nishanth Kumar, Tom Silver, Yichao Liang, Tomás Lozano-Pérez, Leslie Pack Kaelbling
2025 J jnl
PrioriTouch: Adapting to User Contact Preferences for Whole-Arm Physical Human-Robot Interaction.
CoRR
Rishabh Madan, Jiawei Lin, Mahika Goel, Angchen Xie, Xiaoyu Liang, Marcus Lee, Justin Guo, Pranav N. Thakkar, Rohan Banerjee, Jose A. Barreiros, Kate Tsui, Tom Silver, Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee
2025 J jnl
SAVOR: Skill Affordance Learning from Visuo-Haptic Perception for Robot-Assisted Bite Acquisition.
CoRR
Zhanxin Wu, Bo Ai, Tom Silver, Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee
2025 J jnl
SLAP: Shortcut Learning for Abstract Planning.
CoRR
Y. Isabel Liu, Bowen Li, Benjamin Eysenbach, Tom Silver
2025 J jnl
Seeing is Believing: Belief-Space Planning with Foundation Models as Uncertainty Estimators.
CoRR
Linfeng Zhao, Willie McClinton, Aidan Curtis, Nishanth Kumar, Tom Silver, Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Lawson L. S. Wong
2025 J jnl
Unifying Deep Predicate Invention with Pre-trained Foundation Models.
CoRR
Qianwei Wang, Bowen Li, Zhanpeng Luo, Yifan Xu, Alexander G. Gray, Tom Silver, Sebastian A. Scherer, Katia Sycara, Yaqi Xie
2025 A* conf
VisualPredicator: Learning Abstract World Models with Neuro-Symbolic Predicates for Robot Planning.
ICLR
Yichao Liang, Nishanth Kumar, Hao Tang, Adrian Weller, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Tom Silver, João F. Henriques, Kevin Ellis
2024 J jnl
Anticipatory Task and Motion Planning.
CoRR
Roshan Dhakal, Duc M. Nguyen, Tom Silver, Xuesu Xiao, Gregory J. Stein
2024 A* conf
Generalized Planning in PDDL Domains with Pretrained Large Language Models.
AAAI
Tom Silver, Soham Dan, Kavitha Srinivas, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Michael Katz
2024 J jnl
Practice Makes Perfect: Planning to Learn Skill Parameter Policies.
CoRR
Nishanth Kumar, Tom Silver, Willie McClinton, Linfeng Zhao, Stephen Proulx, Tomás Lozano-Pérez, Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Jennifer L. Barry
2024 — conf
Practice Makes Perfect: Planning to Learning Skill Parameter Policies.
Robotics: Science and Systems
Nishanth Kumar, Tom Silver, Willie McClinton, Linfeng Zhao, Stephen Proulx, Tomás Lozano-Pérez, Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Jennifer L. Barry
2024 J jnl
VisualPredicator: Learning Abstract World Models with Neuro-Symbolic Predicates for Robot Planning.
CoRR
Yichao Liang, Nishanth Kumar, Hao Tang, Adrian Weller, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Tom Silver, João F. Henriques, Kevin Ellis
2023 — conf
Embodied Active Learning of Relational State Abstractions for Bilevel Planning.
CoLLAs
Amber Li, Tom Silver
2023 J jnl
Embodied Active Learning of Relational State Abstractions for Bilevel Planning.
CoRR
Amber Li, Tom Silver
2023 J jnl
Generalized Planning in PDDL Domains with Pretrained Large Language Models.
CoRR
Tom Silver, Soham Dan, Kavitha Srinivas, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Michael Katz
2023 Misc conf
Learning Efficient Abstract Planning Models that Choose What to Predict.
CoRL
Nishanth Kumar, Willie McClinton, Rohan Chitnis, Tom Silver, Tomás Lozano-Pérez, Leslie Pack Kaelbling
2023 A* conf
Predicate Invention for Bilevel Planning.
AAAI
Tom Silver, Rohan Chitnis, Nishanth Kumar, Willie McClinton, Tomás Lozano-Pérez, Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Joshua B. Tenenbaum
2022 A* conf
Discovering State and Action Abstractions for Generalized Task and Motion Planning.
AAAI
Aidan Curtis, Tom Silver, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Tomás Lozano-Pérez, Leslie Pack Kaelbling
2022 J jnl
Inventing Relational State and Action Abstractions for Effective and Efficient Bilevel Planning.
CoRR
Tom Silver, Rohan Chitnis, Nishanth Kumar, Willie McClinton, Tomás Lozano-Pérez, Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Joshua B. Tenenbaum
2022 A conf
Learning Neuro-Symbolic Relational Transition Models for Bilevel Planning.
IROS
Rohan Chitnis, Tom Silver, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Tomás Lozano-Pérez, Leslie Pack Kaelbling
2022 Misc conf
Learning Neuro-Symbolic Skills for Bilevel Planning.
CoRL
Tom Silver, Ashay Athalye, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Tomás Lozano-Pérez, Leslie Pack Kaelbling
2022 J jnl
Learning Neuro-Symbolic Skills for Bilevel Planning.
CoRR
Tom Silver, Ashay Athalye, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Tomás Lozano-Pérez, Leslie Pack Kaelbling
2022 J jnl
Learning Operators with Ignore Effects for Bilevel Planning in Continuous Domains.
CoRR
Nishanth Kumar, Willie McClinton, Rohan Chitnis, Tom Silver, Tomás Lozano-Pérez, Leslie Pack Kaelbling
2022 A* conf
PG3: Policy-Guided Planning for Generalized Policy Generation.
IJCAI
Ryan Yang, Tom Silver, Aidan Curtis, Tomás Lozano-Pérez, Leslie Pack Kaelbling
2022 J jnl
PG3: Policy-Guided Planning for Generalized Policy Generation.
CoRR
Ryan Yang, Tom Silver, Aidan Curtis, Tomás Lozano-Pérez, Leslie Pack Kaelbling
2022 A* conf
Reinforcement Learning for Classical Planning: Viewing Heuristics as Dense Reward Generators.
ICAPS
Clement Gehring, Masataro Asai, Rohan Chitnis, Tom Silver, Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Shirin Sohrabi, Michael Katz
2021 J jnl
Discovering State and Action Abstractions for Generalized Task and Motion Planning.
CoRR
Aidan Curtis, Tom Silver, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Tomás Lozano-Pérez, Leslie Pack Kaelbling
2021 A* conf
GLIB: Efficient Exploration for Relational Model-Based Reinforcement Learning via Goal-Literal Babbling.
AAAI
Rohan Chitnis, Tom Silver, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Tomás Lozano-Pérez
2021 J jnl
Integrated Task and Motion Planning.
Annu. Rev. Control. Robotics Auton. Syst.
Caelan Reed Garrett, Rohan Chitnis, Rachel M. Holladay, Beomjoon Kim, Tom Silver, Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Tomás Lozano-Pérez
2021 J jnl
Learning Neuro-Symbolic Relational Transition Models for Bilevel Planning.
CoRR
Rohan Chitnis, Tom Silver, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Tomás Lozano-Pérez, Leslie Pack Kaelbling
2021 A conf
Learning Symbolic Operators for Task and Motion Planning.
IROS
Tom Silver, Rohan Chitnis, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Tomás Lozano-Pérez
2021 J jnl
Learning Symbolic Operators for Task and Motion Planning.
CoRR
Tom Silver, Rohan Chitnis, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Tomás Lozano-Pérez
2021 A* conf
Planning with Learned Object Importance in Large Problem Instances using Graph Neural Networks.
AAAI
Tom Silver, Rohan Chitnis, Aidan Curtis, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Tomás Lozano-Pérez, Leslie Pack Kaelbling
2021 J jnl
Reinforcement Learning for Classical Planning: Viewing Heuristics as Dense Reward Generators.
CoRR
Clement Gehring, Masataro Asai, Rohan Chitnis, Tom Silver, Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Shirin Sohrabi, Michael Katz
2020 Misc conf
CAMPs: Learning Context-Specific Abstractions for Efficient Planning in Factored MDPs.
CoRL
Rohan Chitnis, Tom Silver, Beomjoon Kim, Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Tomás Lozano-Pérez
2020 J jnl
CAMPs: Learning Context-Specific Abstractions for Efficient Planning in Factored MDPs.
CoRR
Rohan Chitnis, Tom Silver, Beomjoon Kim, Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Tomás Lozano-Pérez
2020 A* conf
Few-Shot Bayesian Imitation Learning with Logical Program Policies.
AAAI
Tom Silver, Kelsey R. Allen, Alex K. Lew, Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Josh Tenenbaum
2020 J jnl
GLIB: Exploration via Goal-Literal Babbling for Lifted Operator Learning.
CoRR
Rohan Chitnis, Tom Silver, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Tomás Lozano-Pérez
2020 J jnl
Integrated Task and Motion Planning.
CoRR
Caelan Reed Garrett, Rohan Chitnis, Rachel M. Holladay, Beomjoon Kim, Tom Silver, Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Tomás Lozano-Pérez
2020 A conf
Learning constraint-based planning models from demonstrations.
IROS
João Loula, Kelsey R. Allen, Tom Silver, Josh Tenenbaum
2020 A* conf
Online Bayesian Goal Inference for Boundedly Rational Planning Agents.
NeurIPS
Tan Zhi-Xuan, Jordyn L. Mann, Tom Silver, Josh Tenenbaum, Vikash Mansinghka
2020 J jnl
Online Bayesian Goal Inference for Boundedly-Rational Planning Agents.
CoRR
Tan Zhi-Xuan, Jordyn L. Mann, Tom Silver, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Vikash K. Mansinghka
2020 J jnl
PDDLGym: Gym Environments from PDDL Problems.
CoRR
Tom Silver, Rohan Chitnis
2020 J jnl
Planning with Learned Object Importance in Large Problem Instances using Graph Neural Networks.
CoRR
Tom Silver, Rohan Chitnis, Aidan Curtis, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Tomás Lozano-Pérez, Leslie Pack Kaelbling
2019 B conf
Discovering a symbolic planning language from continuous experience.
CogSci
João Loula, Tom Silver, Kelsey R. Allen, Josh Tenenbaum
2019 J jnl
Few-Shot Bayesian Imitation Learning with Logic over Programs.
CoRR
Tom Silver, Kelsey R. Allen, Alex K. Lew, Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Josh Tenenbaum
2019 — conf
Learning sparse relational transition models.
ICLR (Poster)
Victoria Xia, Zi Wang, Kelsey R. Allen, Tom Silver, Leslie Pack Kaelbling
2018 A* conf
Behavior Is Everything: Towards Representing Concepts with Sensorimotor Contingencies.
AAAI
Nicholas Hay, Michael Stark, Alexander Schlegel, Carter Wendelken, Dennis Park, Eric Purdy, Tom Silver, D. Scott Phoenix, Dileep George
2018 J jnl
Residual Policy Learning.
CoRR
Tom Silver, Kelsey R. Allen, Josh Tenenbaum, Leslie Pack Kaelbling
2017 A* conf
Schema Networks: Zero-shot Transfer with a Generative Causal Model of Intuitive Physics.
ICML
Ken Kansky, Tom Silver, David A. Mély, Mohamed Eldawy, Miguel Lázaro-Gredilla, Xinghua Lou, Nimrod Dorfman, Szymon Sidor, D. Scott Phoenix, Dileep George
2017 J jnl
Schema Networks: Zero-shot Transfer with a Generative Causal Model of Intuitive Physics.
CoRR
Ken Kansky, Tom Silver, David A. Mély, Mohamed Eldawy, Miguel Lázaro-Gredilla, Xinghua Lou, Nimrod Dorfman, Szymon Sidor, D. Scott Phoenix, Dileep George