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Teaching robots to compose skills without relearning
Benedict Quartey, Sebastian Castro, Eric Rosen, Wil Thomason, George Konidaris, Stefanie Tellex
May 20, 2026
Current robot learning systems treat skills as pure action sequences, missing the symbolic outcomes that make composition possible. PACTS models each skill as a joint distribution over both actions and their symbolic effects, letting a single policy generate coherent action-outcome rollouts. At test time, the model predicts symbolic outcomes in real time, enabling a planner to sequence skills together without ever seeing that combination before.
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