RUBATO paper: decoupled clocks let full-duplex models think at full speed

EliasEskin · x · 2026-10-22

A new paper, "RUBATO: Decoupled Clocks Allow Full-Duplex Models to Think as Fast as They Can," points out that current full-duplex models tie their thinking to the conversation's pace, so reasoning speed is limited by speech.

RUBATO decouples the two, giving each stream its own clock so that thinking runs as fast as the hardware allows rather than at the real-time rhythm of the dialogue.

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