RL to shift to world model rollouts due to environmental latency
siddarthv66 · x · 2026-08-24
As model inference costs drop, RL is becoming increasingly bound by the latency of environment interactions (e.g., waiting for humans or training runs). This gap implies that at scale, the optimal strategy will be to learn world models and perform most RL training in simulated 'dreamer-style' rollouts rather than the real world.
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