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What Symmetry Buys a Learned Motion Planner

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 9, 2026 · UTC

Learning-based motion planners pay at training what classical planners pay per query. Trained in world coordinates, they relearn the same motion at every position and orientation. Existing work restores the missing rigid-body equivariance in the training data, in the inference operator, or in the weights, and each carries a cost. We ask how much of that equivariance the planning query supplies for free. A start s and a goal g determine a frame in closed form, with origin at their midpoint and first axis along g-s. Expressing trajectory and obstacles in that frame removes three translations and

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