Can LLMs Prove Robotic Path Planning Optimality? A Benchmark for Research-Level Algorithm Verification
Zhengbang Yang,
Md. Tasin Tazwar,
Minghan Wei,
Zhuangdi Zhu
July 2026
Abstract
This work introduces a benchmark for evaluating whether large language models can produce research-level approximation-ratio proofs for robotic path planning algorithms, and studies how targeted context augmentation can improve proof reasoning.
Publication
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2026)
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