RL training bottleneck shifts: Env interaction latency bound

JoshPurtell · x · 2026-08-24

RL trajectories are becoming increasingly latency-bound by environment interactions. Real-world state transitions (e.g., waiting for humans or inner-loop training runs) are fundamentally incompressible in time, while model inference costs are dropping dramatically. This gap will likely become a critical bottleneck.

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