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Vectorized Online POMDP Planning (VOPP) addresses critical synchronization bottlenecks in autonomous robot planning by leveraging tensor-based vectorization to enable massive parallelization. This approach eliminates inter-process dependencies, achieving at least a 20x efficiency gain over existing parallel solvers while requiring 1000x less planning budget than sequential methods. The technique represents a significant architectural shift for deploying real-time, near-optimal solutions in stochastic environments.
Vectorized Online POMDP Planning
arXiv:2510.27191v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Planning under partial observability is an essential capability of autonomous robots. The Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) provides a powerful framework for planning under partial observability problems, capturing the stochastic effects of actions and the limited information available through noisy observations. POMDP solving could benefit tremendously from massive parallelization on today's hardware, but parallelizing POMDP solvers has been challenging. Most solvers rely on interleaving numerical optimization over actions with the estimation of their values, which creates dependencies and synchronization bottlenecks between parallel processes that can offset the benefits of parallelization. In this paper, we propose Vectorized Online POMDP Planner (VOPP), a novel parallel online solver that leverages a recent POMDP formulation which analytically solves part of the optimization component, leaving numerical computations to consist of only estimation of expectations. VOPP represents all data structures related to planning as a collection of tensors, and implements all planning steps as fully vectorized computations over this representation. The result is a massively parallel online solver with no dependencies or synchronization bottlenecks between concurrent processes. Experimental results indicate that VOPP is at least $20\times$ more efficient in computing near-optimal solutions compared to an existing state-of-the-art parallel online solver. Moreover, VOPP outperforms state-of-the-art sequential online solvers, while using a planning budget that is $1000\times$ smaller.
Abstract:Planning under partial observability is an essential capability of autonomous robots. The Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) provides a powerful framework for planning under partial observability problems, capturing the stochastic effects of actions and the limited information available through noisy observations. POMDP solving could benefit tremendously from massive parallelization on today's hardware, but parallelizing POMDP solvers has been challenging. Most solvers rely on interleaving numerical optimization over actions with the estimation of their values, which creates dependencies and synchronization bottlenecks between parallel processes that can offset the benefits of parallelization. In this paper, we propose Vectorized Online POMDP Planner (VOPP), a novel parallel online solver that leverages a recent POMDP formulation which analytically solves part of the optimization component, leaving numerical computations to consist of only estimation of expectations. VOPP represents all data structures related to planning as a collection of tensors, and implements all planning steps as fully vectorized computations over this representation. The result is a massively parallel online solver with no dependencies or synchronization bottlenecks between concurrent processes. Experimental results indicate that VOPP is at least $20\times$ more efficient in computing near-optimal solutions compared to an existing state-of-the-art parallel online solver. Moreover, VOPP outperforms state-of-the-art sequential online solvers, while using a planning budget that is $1000\times$ smaller.
8 pages, 3 figures. Accepted at ICRA 2026
Robotics (cs.RO); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
arXiv:2510.27191 [cs.RO]
(or arXiv:2510.27191v5 [cs.RO] for this version)
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