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TSR Desk · science · 4 September 2026, 19:01 UTC

Towards Numerical TOHTN Planning with SMT-based HTN-SAT Encoding

What
Towards Numerical TOHTN Planning with SMT-based HTN-SAT Encoding
Who
arxiv.org
When
4 September 2026, 04:00 UTC
Category
Science
Primary source
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.03938
What is not known
This brief does not claim independent replication. Claims that appear only on X and not in the primary source stay unknown.

In addition, we introduce a benchmark suite for numerical TOHTN planning, providing a first common basis for evaluation in this setting. It comes from a paper posted to arXiv on 4 September 2026. While HTN planning has received significant attention in recent years, support for numerical reasoning remains very limited. In this paper, we investigate numerical Totally-Ordered HTN (TOHTN) planning and show how standard SAT-based encodings can be naturally extended with SMT to handle numeric fluents. Experimental results show that this simple encoding already constitutes a competitive baseline. This work opens the way to more expressive approaches to HTN planning.

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In addition, we introduce a benchmark suite for numerical TOHTN planning, providing a first common basis for evaluation in this setting.

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What is not known

This brief does not claim independent replication. Claims that appear only on X and not in the primary source stay unknown.

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