ResearchResearch paperRobotics & Embodied AI · Reasoning & Planning · Multimodal Models1 source · Oct 13, 2026

Write Once, Plan Many: Building Reusable Visual Planning Systems from One Scene

We present a training-free framework that constructs reusable perception and planning programs from a domain specification and a single practice scene without a paired solution.

Key points

  • Vision-language models (VLMs) can reason about visual planning tasks, but querying them for every instance incurs repeated inference cost and latency.
  • Generating reusable planning programs offers an alternative, but constructing reliable planning systems for new problem domains without extensive supervision remains challenging.
  • Our framework addresses it by leveraging VLM's ability to provide a renderer and a dynamic model based on its scene understanding.
  • Across fifteen domain variants spanning 2D and 3D scenes with discrete and continuous state, our systems achieve 99.3% average planning success, compared with 80.9% for the strongest domain-level program-generation baseline and 90.7% for the strongest instance-level baseline.

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  • [1]Write Once, Plan Many: Building Reusable Visual Planning Systems from One Scene
    arXiv (AI, ML, NLP, CV, robotics, multi-agent) · Oct 13, 09:52 PM
    We present a training-free framework that constructs reusable perception and planning programs from a domain specification and a single practice scene without a paired solution.
    Vision-language models (VLMs) can reason about visual planning tasks, but querying them for every instance incurs repeated inference cost and latency.

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