Towards Reliable and Robust LLM Planning: Symbolic Feedback-Driven Iterative Self-Refinement Framework

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.27757v1
• Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2026 06:24:33 GMT
• Title: Towards Reliable and Robust LLM Planning: Symbolic Feedback-Driven Iterative Self-Refinement Framework
• Abstract summary: Large language models (LLMs) have attracted widespread attention from academia and industry, yet their deployment raises critical security concerns regarding robustness and reliability.<n>We propose a symbolic feedback-driven iterative self-refinement framework to enhance the robustness and reliability of LLMs in long-horizon planning.
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• Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have attracted widespread attention from academia and industry, yet their deployment raises critical security concerns regarding robustness and reliability. Planning, a core component of intelligent behavior, remains challenging for LLMs, which often produce infeasible or incorrect solutions in long-horizon decision-making tasks due to inherent complexity. In this paper, we propose a symbolic feedback-driven iterative self-refinement framework to enhance the robustness and reliability of LLMs in long-horizon planning. Specifically, a natural language prompting mechanism is introduced to map logical symbols into natural language descriptions, enabling LLMs to better capture task constraints and semantics. We further design a symbolic verifier that identifies errors and converts them into corrective instructions interpretable by the LLM, thereby guiding self-refinement. In addition, we leverage a plan recognizer to infer goal reachability, facilitating more effective guidance toward desired goals. Empirical results demonstrate that the proposed framework consistently improves both feasibility and correctness in long-horizon planning tasks. This highlights its effectiveness in enhancing the reliability of LLM-based planning and potential to enable more trustworthy AI systems.

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