Separating Decision Time from Decision Quality in the Real-Time Gap of Distilled Deciders: Evidence from a Game and a Conveyor Simulator. Chihoon Shin, Junyeong Lee, Kihyeok Jeong and Wonok Kwon.
- arXiv (main text and supplementary material): arXiv:2610.04810
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v0.1.0, doi:10.5281/zenodo.23111615). See REPRODUCE.md. - The paper is under review. The journal link will be added here when it is published.
The paper asks one question: when a learned decider loses performance in a running system, is the loss caused by the time each decision takes, or by the quality of the decisions? It splits the gap into those two parts with a control that matches the decider's delay.