[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-researchers-build-ai-planner-that-resists-complexity-collapse":10,"sections":34},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":24,"tags":25,"sources":29,"feedback":33,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":33,"total_tokens":33},7782,"researchers-build-ai-planner-that-resists-complexity-collapse","Researchers Build AI Planner That Resists Complexity Collapse","GRASP splits AI planning into isolated drafting, revising, and grading stages to curb performance collapse on complex, multi-task work.","AI planning frameworks tend to fall apart the moment a task gets complicated, and a new paper wants to fix that with better plumbing, not a bigger model.\n\nThe framework, called GRASP, splits the planning process into three isolated stages that never see each other's full context. One module drafts a broad strategy, a second explores alternate approaches to individual steps, and a third scores the resulting plans against multiple criteria before picking a winner. Tested on calendar scheduling, logic puzzles, and science math benchmarks, GRASP beat standard single-pass LLM planning by roughly 12 to 31 percent depending on the task. When researchers ran two tasks at once, a setup that normally causes LLM planners to collapse, GRASP still gained up to 16.7 percent over those planners, and it beat GPT-5-mini's reasoning approach by 14.5 percent overall.\n\nThat multi-task result is the interesting part. Most AI planning today is still one model trying to hold an entire task in its head at once, which is exactly where things break under load. GRASP's bet is architectural: separate the drafting, revising, and grading into isolated jobs so a mistake in one stage does not poison the rest, rather than just throwing more reasoning tokens at the problem.\n\nThe numbers come from the paper's own benchmarks, not an independent test, so treat this as a promising research result rather than a shipped product.","[\"ai\",\"ai-planning\",\"llm\",\"research\"]","2026-09-25T04:00:00.000Z","2026-09-25T22:03:08.877Z","2026-09-25T22:03:13.590Z","published",null,[],"ai",[24,26,27,28],"ai-planning","llm","research",[30],{"name":31,"url":32},"arXiv cs.AI","https:\u002F\u002Farxiv.org\u002Fabs\u002F2609.30147",0,{"sections":35},[36,40,45,50,55,60,64,69,74,79,84,89,93,98],{"name":37,"slug":24,"count":38,"latest_published_at":39},"AI",4636,"2026-09-27T01:30:00.000Z",{"name":41,"slug":42,"count":43,"latest_published_at":44},"Security","security",751,"2026-09-26T12:00:00.000Z",{"name":46,"slug":47,"count":48,"latest_published_at":49},"Policy","policy",396,"2026-09-26T18:45:15.000Z",{"name":51,"slug":52,"count":53,"latest_published_at":54},"Deals","deals",260,"2026-09-26T09:00:00.000Z",{"name":56,"slug":57,"count":58,"latest_published_at":59},"Hardware","hardware",186,"2026-09-26T17:26:54.000Z",{"name":61,"slug":62,"count":63,"latest_published_at":54},"Science","science",144,{"name":65,"slug":66,"count":67,"latest_published_at":68},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",135,"2026-09-26T14:30:00.000Z",{"name":70,"slug":71,"count":72,"latest_published_at":73},"Software","software",91,"2026-09-25T20:55:00.000Z",{"name":75,"slug":76,"count":77,"latest_published_at":78},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",84,"2026-09-26T04:20:58.000Z",{"name":80,"slug":81,"count":82,"latest_published_at":83},"Startups","startups",76,"2026-09-25T18:33:59.000Z",{"name":85,"slug":86,"count":87,"latest_published_at":88},"Gaming","gaming",48,"2026-09-25T18:35:21.000Z",{"name":90,"slug":91,"count":87,"latest_published_at":92},"General","general","2026-09-26T17:02:42.000Z",{"name":94,"slug":95,"count":96,"latest_published_at":97},"Reviews","reviews",30,"2026-09-24T20:07:31.000Z",{"name":99,"slug":100,"count":101,"latest_published_at":102},"How-To","how-to",6,"2026-06-16T09:00:00.000Z"]