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Plan Verification for LLM-Based Embodied Task Completion Agents

arXiv 2509.02761 ↗First posted 2 Sep 2025cs.AIcited by 4

On the map: LLM agents and tool use → Multimodal and embodied agents

Abstract (arXiv)

Large language model (LLM) based task plans and corresponding human demonstrations for embodied AI may be noisy, with unnecessary actions, redundant navigation, and logical errors that reduce policy quality. We propose an iterative verification framework in which a Judge LLM critiques action sequences and a Planner LLM applies the revisions, yielding progressively cleaner and more spatially coherent trajectories. Unlike rule-based approaches, our method relies on natural language prompting, enabling broad generalization across error types including irrelevant actions, contradictions, and missing steps. On a set of manually annotated actions from the TEACh embodied AI dataset, our framework achieves up to 90% recall and 100% precision across four state-of-the-art LLMs (GPT o4-mini, DeepSeek-R1, Gemini 2.5, LLaMA 4 Scout). The refinement loop converges quickly, with 96.5% of sequences requiring at most three iterations, while improving both temporal efficiency and spatial action organization. Crucially, the method preserves human error-recovery patterns rather than collapsing them, supporting future work on robust corrective behavior. By establishing plan verification as a reliable LLM capability for spatial planning and action refinement, we provide a scalable path to higher-quality training data for imitation learning in embodied AI.

Key facts. Cited by 4 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in Multimodal and embodied agents, one of 16 directions in LLM agents and tool use. Builds on 18 of its 22 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 2 Sep 2025.

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18 of 22 references.

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  1. 2024PARTNR: A Benchmark for Planning and Reasoning in Embodied Multi-agent Tasks31 Oct
  2. 2022LLM-Planner: Few-Shot Grounded Planning for Embodied Agents with Large Language Models8 Dec
  3. 2022Language Models as Zero-Shot Planners: Extracting Actionable Knowledge for Embodied Agents18 Jan

Other references · 15

  1. 2023Judging LLM-as-a-Judge with MT-Bench and Chatbot Arenacited by 8,626
  2. 2023Reflexion: Language Agents with Verbal Reinforcement Learningcited by 4,276
  3. 2023AutoGen: Enabling Next-Gen LLM Applications via Multi-Agent Conversationcited by 1,988
  4. 2024A Survey on LLM-as-a-Judgecited by 1,423
  5. 2022ProgPrompt: Generating Situated Robot Task Plans using Large Language Modelscited by 611
  6. 2024From Generation to Judgment: Opportunities and Challenges of LLM-as-a-judgecited by 494
  7. 2023Building Cooperative Embodied Agents Modularly with Large Language Modelscited by 237
  8. 2021TEACh: Task-driven Embodied Agents that Chatcited by 197
  9. 2024Is LLM-as-a-Judge Robust? Investigating Universal Adversarial Attacks on Zero-shot LLM Assessmentcited by 126
  10. 2023Embodied Task Planning with Large Language Modelscited by 84
  11. 2023LLatrieval: LLM-Verified Retrieval for Verifiable Generationcited by 52
  12. 2025VerifyLLM: LLM-Based Pre-Execution Task Plan Verification for Robotscited by 14
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  1. 2022Dialog Acts for Task-Driven Embodied Agentscited by 13
  2. 2022Don't Copy the Teacher: Data and Model Challenges in Embodied Dialoguecited by 10
  3. 2024Systematic Analysis of LLM Contributions to Planning: Solver, Verifier, Heuristiccited by 3

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  2. 2022Inner Monologue: Embodied Reasoning through Planning with Language Models
  3. 2025Constrained Natural Language Action Planning for Resilient Embodied Systems
  4. 2023Dynamic Planning with a LLM
  5. 2025Unleashing Embodied Task Planning Ability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning
  6. 2024LLM3:Large Language Model-based Task and Motion Planning with Motion Failure Reasoning
  7. 2026From Language to Action: Can LLM-Based Agents Be Used for Embodied Robot Cognition?
  8. 2024Embodied Agent Interface: Benchmarking LLMs for Embodied Decision Making