Stanford and NVIDIA's CLM picks actions by embedding, skipping generation: 44 ms vs 579 ms

Prompt Engineering · youtube · 2026-09-27

CLM from Stanford and NVIDIA Research takes a different approach from generative System 1 models like Jev: it never generates an answer. Instead it embeds the situation and every possible action into one space and picks the closest one. Since action embeddings are computed once and cached, scoring 1,000 options costs about the same as one — 44 ms vs 579 ms for Jev. The catch: options are encoded independently, so they're never compared side by side. Full demos ran on a DGX Spark, with blog and open-source code available.

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