Sleep-time Compute: letting models think ahead during idle time

gerardsans · x · 2026-08-25

This week's #PaperILike is "Sleep-time Compute: Beyond Inference Scaling at Test-time" (Lin et al., 2025). The idea: robots/models should use idle time to think ahead about likely requests using context, going beyond test-time inference scaling.

A replier adds a caveat: be suspicious of any research paper that screams anthropomorphism in its title.

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