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arxiv: 2512.00775 · v2 · submitted 2025-11-30 · 💻 cs.RO · cs.SY· eess.SY

SAGAS: Semantic-Aware Graph-Assisted Stitching for Offline Temporal Logic Planning

Ruijia Liu , Ancheng Hou , Xiang Yin This is my paper

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classification 💻 cs.RO cs.SYeess.SY
keywords LTL planningoffline learningroboticstemporal logicgraph augmentationzero-shot generalizationBuchi automata
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SAGAS uses a learned reachability graph from offline trajectories to synthesize plans for new LTL specifications at test time.

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This paper develops SAGAS to solve LTL-specified robotic planning problems using only fixed, task-agnostic trajectory fragments collected offline. It learns a reusable latent reachability graph and a goal-conditioned executor that remain frozen after initial training. When given a new LTL formula, the system augments the graph with semantic information to ground the propositions and then performs a Büchi product search to find an accepting prefix-suffix plan. The plan is executed by the pre-trained executor, allowing the robot to handle unseen specifications without reward redesign, policy retraining, or further data collection.

Core claim

By learning a latent reachability graph and frozen goal-conditioned executor from fragmented offline data, SAGAS shifts formula-specific reasoning to test-time semantic graph augmentation and Büchi product search. This produces cost-aware accepting prefix-suffix waypoint plans that the executor can follow, enabling zero-shot generalization to unseen, data-supported LTL specifications.

What carries the argument

latent reachability graph with task-time semantic augmentation and Büchi product search for prefix-suffix plan synthesis

If this is right

  • Robots can follow diverse LTL tasks using the same learned components without task-specific adjustments.
  • Planning becomes possible for long-horizon specifications by composing data-driven reachability with symbolic acceptance conditions.
  • Cost-efficient behaviors emerge from searching the graph for minimal accepting runs.
  • Execution relies on a general-purpose executor trained once on the offline data.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The approach may extend to other formalisms if similar graph structures can be learned from data.
  • Performance depends heavily on the quality and coverage of the initial offline trajectories.
  • Test-time search could become computationally expensive for very complex LTL formulas.

Load-bearing premise

The offline trajectory fragments contain sufficient coverage of the state space and reachability relations to support grounding and transitions for arbitrary new LTL formulas whose propositions are realizable in the data.

What would settle it

A new LTL formula that uses propositions present in the data but requires a sequence of transitions absent from the learned reachability graph, leading to no accepting plan being found or an invalid execution.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2512.00775 by Ancheng Hou, Ruijia Liu, Xiang Yin.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Overview of the the proposed SAGAS framework. 4. OUR METHOD In this section, we describe in detail the proposed method for offline temporal logic planning. 4.1 Overview To bridge the gap between fragmented, task-agnostic offline data and the requirement for long-horizon logical satisfaction, we propose SAGAS (Semantic-Aware Graph-Assisted Stitching), a hierarchical framework capable of stitching local beha… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Trajectory comparison on a Hard task: (a) Decoupled [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_3.png] view at source ↗
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Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) provides a rigorous framework for specifying long-horizon robotic tasks, yet existing approaches face a trade-off: model-based synthesis relies on accurate labeled transition systems, whereas learning-based methods often require online interaction, task-specific rewards, or specification-conditioned training. We study LTL-specified robotic planning and execution in a stricter offline, model-free setting, where the agent is given only fixed, task-agnostic trajectory fragments, with no dynamics model, task demonstrations, or online data collection. To address this setting, we propose SAGAS, a framework that combines the compositionality of symbolic synthesis with the data-driven reachability structure learned from offline trajectories. SAGAS first learns a reusable latent reachability graph and a frozen goal-conditioned executor from fragmented offline data. For each new LTL formula, it performs task-time semantic graph augmentation to ground state-defined propositions on the learned graph, and applies B\"uchi product search to synthesize a cost-aware accepting prefix--suffix waypoint plan executed by the frozen executor. By shifting formula-specific reasoning from policy learning to test-time graph augmentation and symbolic search, SAGAS enables zero-shot generalization to unseen, data-supported LTL specifications without task-specific reward design, policy retraining, or online interaction. Experiments on LTL task suites constructed from OGBench locomotion domains show that this design produces executable and cost-efficient prefix--suffix behaviors for diverse unseen LTL tasks from fragmented offline data.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript introduces SAGAS for LTL-specified robotic planning in a strictly offline, model-free setting with only fixed task-agnostic trajectory fragments. It learns a reusable latent reachability graph and frozen goal-conditioned executor from the data. For each new LTL formula, it performs task-time semantic graph augmentation to ground propositions, then applies Büchi product search to synthesize cost-aware accepting prefix-suffix waypoint plans executed by the frozen executor. The central claim is that this enables zero-shot generalization to unseen, data-supported LTL specifications without task-specific reward design, policy retraining, or online interaction. Experiments on LTL task suites from OGBench locomotion domains are said to yield executable and cost-efficient behaviors.

Significance. If the empirical validation holds, the result would be significant for bridging symbolic LTL synthesis with data-driven offline reachability learning. By moving formula-specific reasoning to test-time graph augmentation and symbolic search, the approach avoids common requirements for online interaction or task-specific retraining, offering a path toward more compositional long-horizon planning in robotics from fragmented data.

major comments (2)
  1. [§4 (Experiments)] §4 (Experiments): No quantitative results, success rates, cost metrics, ablation studies, or failure-case analysis are reported for the OGBench LTL task suites, which is load-bearing for the zero-shot generalization claim since the central assumption of sufficient coverage in the latent graph cannot be assessed without these data.
  2. [§3.2 (Latent Reachability Graph Construction and Semantic Augmentation)] §3.2 (Latent Reachability Graph Construction and Semantic Augmentation): The framework relies on the fixed offline fragments inducing a graph with dense enough connected components and transitions to support arbitrary new LTL formulas whose propositions are realizable in the data; however, no coverage metrics, reachability completeness bounds, or analysis of gaps in long-horizon/combinatorial relations are provided, leaving the executability of the Büchi-derived prefix-suffix plans unverified.
minor comments (2)
  1. [§3.1] Clarify the precise definition of the latent graph nodes/edges and the proposition grounding procedure in §3.1 to make the semantic augmentation step reproducible.
  2. [Related Work] Add a brief comparison table in related work to existing offline LTL or graph-based planning methods to highlight the novelty of the frozen executor plus test-time search design.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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Thank you for the constructive feedback on our manuscript. The referee's comments correctly identify areas where stronger empirical and analytical support would bolster the claims of zero-shot generalization. We address each major comment point by point below and indicate planned revisions.

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  1. Referee: [§4 (Experiments)] §4 (Experiments): No quantitative results, success rates, cost metrics, ablation studies, or failure-case analysis are reported for the OGBench LTL task suites, which is load-bearing for the zero-shot generalization claim since the central assumption of sufficient coverage in the latent graph cannot be assessed without these data.

    Authors: We agree that quantitative metrics are essential to substantiate the zero-shot generalization claim and to allow assessment of the coverage assumption. The current manuscript focuses on qualitative demonstrations via example plans and visualizations in the OGBench domains. In the revised version, we will add a dedicated quantitative evaluation subsection in §4, including success rates over the LTL task suites, average costs of the synthesized prefix-suffix plans, ablation studies on the semantic augmentation and Büchi search components, and failure-case analysis for scenarios with limited graph coverage. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§3.2 (Latent Reachability Graph Construction and Semantic Augmentation)] §3.2 (Latent Reachability Graph Construction and Semantic Augmentation): The framework relies on the fixed offline fragments inducing a graph with dense enough connected components and transitions to support arbitrary new LTL formulas whose propositions are realizable in the data; however, no coverage metrics, reachability completeness bounds, or analysis of gaps in long-horizon/combinatorial relations are provided, leaving the executability of the Büchi-derived prefix-suffix plans unverified.

    Authors: We acknowledge that explicit coverage analysis would better verify the executability assumptions. We will revise §3.2 to include empirical coverage metrics on the learned latent reachability graph, such as the density of connected components and transition coverage induced by the offline fragments. We will also add discussion of reachability completeness for data-supported propositions and an analysis of gaps in long-horizon or combinatorial relations, with examples illustrating how the Büchi product search operates within covered regions to produce executable plans. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; derivation relies on independent symbolic search over data-derived graph

full rationale

The SAGAS framework learns a latent reachability graph and goal-conditioned executor from fixed offline fragments, then applies test-time semantic augmentation and Büchi product search for new LTL formulas. This chain does not reduce any target quantity (e.g., plan synthesis or zero-shot generalization) to a fitted parameter or self-defined relation by construction. No equations equate a prediction to its own input, and the central claim rests on an explicit coverage assumption rather than a self-referential loop. The approach is self-contained against external benchmarks of graph construction plus symbolic planning, with no load-bearing self-citation or ansatz smuggling identified.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

1 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim depends on the learned graph faithfully encoding reachability from the given fragments and on the propositions being groundable at test time; these are domain assumptions rather than derived quantities.

free parameters (1)
  • latent graph construction hyperparameters
    Parameters controlling how the reachability graph is extracted from trajectory fragments are fitted or chosen during learning.
axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Offline trajectory fragments provide adequate coverage for data-supported LTL propositions and transitions.
    Invoked when claiming zero-shot generalization to unseen formulas.

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