E: dillon dot chen 1 at gmail dot com T: +33 05 61 33 63 48 W: https://dillonzchen.github.io
I am a first year PhD student in automated planning and machine learning supervised by Sylvie Thiébaux.
I was previously an undergraduate student at the Australian National University. I was fortunate to also be advised by Pascal Bercher, Qing Wang and Felipe Trevizan. I received the University Medal for my honours year in computer science, and the Hanna Neumann Prize for Mathematics for achieving the highest coursework marks in my cohort.
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[2024.06] | ☄️☄️☄️ WLPlan, a library implementating the WL Features for PDDL planning described in our ICPAS-24 paper, is now available as an alpha release. ☄️☄️☄️ |
[2024.06] | I am visiting ICAPS-24 in Banff and SOCS-24 in Kananaskis. |
[2024.05] | Excited to visit the RLeap Lab at RWTH Aachen. Thanks Hector for hosting! |
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I am interested in the intersection of learning and planning from a theoretical viewpoint. I generally advocate for model-based planning but am also aware of the benefits of model-free planning.
My previous research background includes complexity theory, machine learning, and various flavours of automated planning (e.g. hierarchical, stochastic, numeric, and multi-objective) and am always open to studying new research fields.
The two main problems I am currently interested in currently are 1. looking into problem methodologies that make model-based planning more applicable and feasible 2. discovering and/or developing theory for the field of learning and planning to improve generalisation, scalability, and solution quality
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[C7] |
Dillon Ze Chen and Sylvie Thiébaux.
Novelty Heuristics, Multi-Queue Search, and Portfolios
for Numeric Planning.
In 17th International Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SoCS),
2024.
[ pdf | poster | slides | code ] |
[C6] |
Dillon Ze Chen, Felipe Trevizan, and Sylvie Thiébaux.
Return to Tradition: Learning Reliable Heuristics with
Classical Machine Learning.
In 34th International Conference on Automated Planning and
Scheduling (ICAPS), 2024.
[ pdf | poster | slides | code ] |
[C5] |
Dillon Ze Chen, Sylvie Thiébaux, and Felipe Trevizan.
Learning Domain-Independent Heuristics for Grounded and
Lifted Planning.
In 38th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2024.
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[C4] |
Qing Wang, Dillon Ze Chen, Asiri Wijesinghe, Shouheng Li, and Muhammad Farhan.
N-WL: A New Hierarchy of Expressivity
for Graph Neural Networks.
In 11th International Conference on Learning Representations
(ICLR), 2023.
[ pdf | poster | slides | code ] |
[C3] |
Dillon Ze Chen, Felipe Trevizan, and Sylvie Thiébaux.
Heuristic Search for Multi-Objective Probabilistic
Planning.
In 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2023.
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[C2] |
Dillon Ze Chen and Pascal Bercher.
The Complexity of Flexible FOND HTN
Planning.
In 32nd International Conference on Automated Planning and
Scheduling (ICAPS), 2022.
Best Undergraduate Student Paper Award.
[ pdf | poster | slides ] |
[C1] |
Dillon Ze Chen and Pascal Bercher.
Fully Observable Nondeterministic HTN Planning –
Formalisation and Complexity Results.
In 31st International Conference on Automated Planning and
Scheduling (ICAPS), 2021.
Best Undergraduate Student Paper Award.
[ pdf | poster | slides ] |
[W3] |
Dillon Ze Chen, Sylvie Thiébaux, and Felipe Trevizan.
GOOSE: Learning Domain-Independent
Heuristics.
In 7th Workshop on Generalization in Planning (GenPlan), 2023.
«Subsumed by [C5]».
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[W2] |
Dillon Ze Chen, Felipe Trevizan, and Sylvie Thiébaux.
Graph Neural Networks and Graph Kernels For Learning
Heuristics: Is there a difference?.
In 7th Workshop on Generalization in Planning (GenPlan), 2023.
«Subsumed by [C6]».
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[W1] |
Dillon Ze Chen and Pascal Bercher.
The Complexity of Flexible FOND HTN
Planning.
In 4th ICAPS Workshop on Hierarchical Planning (HPlan), 2021.
«Subsumed by [C2]».
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