About Me
I am a Ph.D. student at Linköping University, Sweden. I work at the Artificial Intelligence & Integrated Computer Systems Division (AIICS) in the Machine Reasoning Lab. My main research interests are optimal classical planning and machine learning.
Short bio
I finished my bachelor's and master's degree at the University of Basel in 2019 and 2021 respectively and joined the Machine Reasoning Lab in September of 2021.
Awards
- Winner of the Explainability Challenge of the Beluga Competition organized by the TUPLES Consortium.
- Winner, Deterministic Optimal Track for the Ragnarok planner at the 10th International Planning Competition (IPC 2023) at ICAPS 2023.
Publications
2026
Paul Höft.
Computing Perfect Cost Partitioning Heuristics for Classical Planning.
PhD thesis, Linköping University, 2026.
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2025
Paul Höft, David Speck and Jendrik Seipp.
Representing Perfect Saturated Cost Partitioning Heuristics in Classical Planning.
In Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2025). 2025.
paper | slides | code | citationElliot Gestrin, Gustaf Söderholm, Paul Höft, Mauricio Salerno, Jendrik Seipp and Daniel Gnad.
Explainable Planning via Counterfactual Task Analysis for the Beluga Challenge and Beyond.
In ICAPS 2025 Workshop on Human-Aware and Explainable Planning (HAXP). 2025.
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2024
Paul Höft, David Speck, Florian Pommerening and Jendrik Seipp.
Versatile Cost Partitioning with Exact Sensitivity Analysis.
In Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2024), pp. 276–280. 2024.
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2023
Paul Höft, David Speck and Jendrik Seipp.
Sensitivity Analysis for Saturated Post-hoc Optimization in Classical Planning.
In Proceedings of the 26th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2023), pp. 1044–1051. 2023.
paper | slides | poster | code | citationDominik Drexler, Daniel Gnad, Paul Höft, Jendrik Seipp, David Speck and Simon Ståhlberg.
Ragnarok.
In Tenth International Planning Competition (IPC-10): Planner Abstracts. 2023.
paper | citationPaul Höft, David Speck and Jendrik Seipp.
Dofri.
In Tenth International Planning Competition (IPC-10): Planner Abstracts. 2023.
paper | citationDavid Speck, Paul Höft, Daniel Gnad and Jendrik Seipp.
Finding Matrix Multiplication Algorithms with Classical Planning — Extended Abstract.
In The 35th Annual Workshop of the Swedish Artificial Intelligence Society (SAIS). 2023.
paper | slides | poster | code | citation (Superseded by this paper.)David Speck, Paul Höft, Daniel Gnad and Jendrik Seipp.
Finding Matrix Multiplication Algorithms with Classical Planning.
In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2023), pp. 411–416. 2023.
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